US President Donald Trump on Wednesday took one other contemporary swipe at veteran rock star Bruce Springsteen, taking their public feud to a brand new degree.The MAGA supremo shared a doctored video on social media displaying himself hitting Springsteen with a golf ball.The video was posted on each Trump’s Reality Social, begins with footage of Trump swinging a golf membership and hitting a ball. It then cuts to a clip of Springsteen tripping and rolling onto the stage throughout certainly one of his concert events. Within the edited model, a golf ball is added to the scene, making it look as if Trump’s shot prompted Springsteen’s fall.The video follows a collection of harsh exchanges between the 2, which started after Springsteen’s latest crucial remarks concerning the Trump administration throughout the opening present of his European tour.“The America I like, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is at present within the arms of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” Springsteen mentioned.He went on to accuse Trump’s authorities of “abandoning the world’s poorest kids to illness and dying … taking sadistic pleasure within the ache that they inflict on loyal American staff,” and rolling again civil rights in the US.Springsteen plans to incorporate these feedback about Trump on an EP he’ll launch primarily based on the latest live performance, based on Selection.The Trump administration initially responded with an announcement: “the 77 million People that elected President Trump disagree with elitist and out-of-touch celebrities like Bruce Springsteen.”Trump later took to Reality Social himself to answer, calling Springsteen “overrated” and a “jerk.”“By no means preferred him, by no means preferred his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a proficient man — Only a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who got here near destroying our Nation,” Trump wrote.Springsteen will not be the one musician to face Trump’s criticism. The president additionally focused pop star Taylor Swift, who lately accomplished a record-breaking two-year tour. Trump posted that she is not “scorching” since he declared on social media that he “HATE[s] TAYLOR SWIFT” following her endorsement of Kamala Harris.A number of different musicians, together with Neil Younger and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, have publicly supported Springsteen and Swift.“Bruce and 1000’s of musicians suppose you’re ruining America. You are worried about that as an alternative of the dyin’ youngsters in Gaza,” Neil Younger wrote on his web site. “That is your downside. I’m not petrified of you.”At a live performance in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Vedder addressed Trump’s assaults on Springsteen.“All that we heard have been private assaults and threats that no person else ought to attempt to use their microphones or voice in public or they’ll be shut down,” Vedder informed the viewers.This week, Trump additionally accused Kamala Harris of “illegally paying hundreds of thousands” to Beyoncé for an endorsement below the “veil of leisure.” He known as for a contemporary probe into these funds.
