At an lawsuit for his caller biopic, the stone prima besides said this state is "worth warring for."
Bruce Springsteen performs astatine the AFI FEST 2025 Presented By Canva Opening Night "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" Premiere astatine TCL Chinese Theatre connected October 22, 2025 successful Hollywood, California. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
Bruce Springsteen is continuing to talk retired against Donald Trump, with the stone prima offering up a “prayer” for “no kings” amid the ongoing protests against the president.
At the American Film Institute Opening Night Gala connected Wednesday (Oct. 22) — wherever Springsteen was successful attendance to enactment caller biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere — The Boss performed his opus “Land of Hopes and Dreams.” Before diving into the track, however, helium called it a “prayer for America, our assemblage and nary kings,” according to USA Today.
“Outside, each hellhole is breaking escaped successful the United States,” Springsteen added astatine the event. “For 250 years astir the world, contempt each the faults that we’ve had, the United States has served arsenic a beacon of ideology and anticipation and freedom.”
Despite however “terribly damaged” helium thinks the state is, though, Springsteen besides noted that the nation’s “ideals stay worthy warring for.”
Billboard has reached retired to the White House for comment.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s comments beryllium he’s making bully on his pledge to support calling retired the faults helium sees successful the Trump administration. “I’m going to enactment existent to who I’ve tried to be,” helium told TIME in September. “I can’t springiness these guys a escaped pass.”
Though countless musicians person voiced absorption to the twice-impeached POTUS’ policies, Springsteen stands retired arsenic 1 that Trump has addressed straight — aggregate times. After the songwriter slammed the U.S. government’s “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” enactment astatine a performance successful May, the president called him “dumb arsenic a rock” and a “pushy, obnoxious JERK” successful a heated Truth Social post.
That didn’t halt Springsteen from calling Trump a “moron” successful a June interview. “It’s an American tragedy,” helium told The New York Times at the time. “I deliberation that it was the operation of the deindustrialization of the state and past the unthinkable summation successful wealthiness disparity that near truthful galore radical behind. It was ripe for a demagogue.”
Watch a clip of Springsteen’s show below:

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