U.S. President Donald Trump has as soon as once more escalated his feud with legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen, this time within the type of a digitally altered video.
Final week, the president referred to as for an investigation into Springsteen after the singer condemned the actions of the U.S. administration throughout a live performance within the U.Okay. a couple of days prior, the place he accused the American authorities of being “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.”
On Thursday, following quite a few social media-driven jabs at Springsteen and different outspoken celeb Democrats, Trump retaliated additional by sharing a doctored video of himself hitting Springsteen with a golf ball on his X and Reality Social accounts.
The clip exhibits Trump, a golf fanatic, on a golf course teeing up. After hitting a shot, the footage cuts to Springsteen on a stage, his again to the digital camera, being struck on the again with a digitally-imposed golf ball, and tripping over.
There was no caption accompanying the video.
Trump’s newest dressing down of the storied musician got here days after a late-night spout from America’s commander-in-chief.
On Monday, forward of a gathering with Vladimir Putin, Trump took to Reality Social to share a rambling tirade directed at Springsteen and different Hollywood A-listers who endorsed his presidential opponent Kamala Harris.
“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?” Trump wrote, “WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? … AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???, ” he continued.
“I’m going to name for a serious investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, below the guise of paying for leisure,” he went on.
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“As well as, this was a really costly and determined effort to artificially construct up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was only a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL solution to capitalize on a damaged system,” the president concluded.
About eight hours later, he took to social media once more.
“In line with information studies, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to stroll onto a stage, shortly ENDORSE KAMALA, and stroll off to loud booing for by no means having carried out, NOT EVEN ONE SONG!” Trump wrote.
“Bear in mind, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her tens of millions of {Dollars} for doing nothing apart from giving Kamala a full throated ENDORSEMENT.”
Transitioning to full caps, the president rounded off his hours-long rant.
“THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!,” he wrote.
Springsteen is considered one of Trump’s most high-profile and longstanding critics and was a vocal proponent of Kamal Harris throughout final 12 months’s election marketing campaign.
Throughout his live performance on Could 14, the all-American rock star mentioned the president was ‘unfit‘ for workplace earlier than galvanizing the gang to face up and struggle for democracy.
Trump fired again on Friday by hurling insults at Springsteen, saying he was “Extremely Overrated” and “not a proficient man.”
“I see that Extremely Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a International Nation to talk badly in regards to the President of the US,” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “By no means preferred him, by no means preferred his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a proficient man,” the president wrote.
He accused Springsteen of being a “pushy, obnoxious JERK” and “dumb as a rock,” earlier than fixating on his appears to be like.
“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his pores and skin is all atrophied!) must KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT till he will get again into the Nation,” the president wrote, showing to threaten Springsteen with punishment upon his return to the U.S. after his tour.
On Tuesday, Canadian singer Neil Younger chimed in on the feud, telling Trump to deal with “saving America from the mess you made” as an alternative of feuding with celebrities who’ve criticized him.
Throughout his profession, Springsteen has challenged his viewers politically past presidential endorsements. The 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad bluntly documented the lives of struggling immigrants — Mexican and Vietnamese amongst them. And his 2001 music American Pores and skin (41 Pictures), criticized the taking pictures by New York Metropolis cops of an unarmed Guinean immigrant named Amadou Diallo, angering among the blue-collar segments of his fan base.
— with recordsdata from World Information’ Michelle Butterfield, Katie Scott and The Related Press
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