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The feud between President Donald Trump and veteran rock star Bruce Springsteen escalated Wednesday after the commander in chief posted a doctored video to social media showing him hitting the singer with a golf ball.
In the posts, shared to the president’s Truth Social and X accounts, Trump is shown hitting a golf ball. The video then shows a clip of Springsteen, 75, tripping at one of his shows and rolling as he falls onto the stage. A golf ball appears to be added into the second clip as if Trump was responsible for hitting Springsteen and making him fall.
The post comes as the president and the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer have publicly traded barbs after Springsteen’s comments last week during the opening show of his European tour.
“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” he said.
He went on to accuse the Trump administration of “abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death … taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers,” and rolling back civil rights in the United States.
Initially, the Trump administration replied with a statement, saying that “the 77 million Americans that elected President Trump disagree with elitist and out-of-touch celebrities like Bruce Springsteen.”
Trump later responded to the comments on Truth Social, saying Springsteen was “overrated” and a “jerk.”
“Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country,” Trump wrote.
Springsteen isn’t the only musician to speak out about Trump, or the only one to be on the receiving end of Trump’s wrath.
Last week, Trump posted about how Taylor Swift, who recently finished a massive two-year, record-breaking tour, is no longer “hot” ever since he posted that he hated her following her endorsement of former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
“Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?’” Trump wrote Friday.
Representatives for Springsteen and Swift did not immediately return a request for comment.
Other musicians such as Neil Young and Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder have come to the defense of Springsteen and Swift.
“Bruce and thousands of musicians think you are ruining America. You worry about that instead of the dyin’ kids in Gaza,” Young wrote on his website. “That’s your problem. I am not scared of you.”
During a concert in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Vedder said that Trump’s response to Springsteen has nothing to do with the concerns he raised.
“All that we heard were personal attacks and threats that nobody else should try to use their microphones or voice in public or they’ll be shut down,” Vedder told the crowd.
Mithil Aggarwal contributed.
