The Boss is taking on the commander in chief – again.
Bruce Springsteen, the outspoken blue-collar rocker who’s taken aim at President Donald Trump in recent years, criticized the president and his supporters in an interview with Time magazine published Thursday, Sept. 25.
“A lot of people bought into his lies,” Springsteen, 76, told the magazine. “He doesn’t care about the forgotten anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day.” Trump’s association with tech industry magnates, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, has been scrutinized and nicknamed the “broligarchy.”
“You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance,” the singer added.
Springsteen, who’s long sung about the struggles of the working class, initially shied away from political commentary during Trump’s first presidential term, telling Variety in 2017 that “I’m ambivalent about … sort of getting on a soapbox. I still believe people fundamentally come to music to be entertained.”
The Grammy-winning rocker and ’80s icon has since changed his tune, using his public performances as a musical soapbox to rebuke the president’s conduct and policies.
Bruce Springsteen says 25th Amendment should be used on Donald Trump
For Springsteen, President Trump’s time in the Oval Office may be up.
“He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for,” Springsteen told Time magazine. “If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”
The 25th Amendment, an article in the U.S. Constitution, addresses what happens if the president or vice president dies, resigns, becomes incapacitated or is otherwise unable to fulfill their duties, including the possible removal of the president from office.
Springsteen’s comments echo those of actress and “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg, who also suggested the 25th Amendment should be invoked for Trump after the president’s controversial remarks during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
Springsteen, who campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, also took the Democrats to task.
“We’re desperately in need of an effective alternative party, or for the Democratic Party to find someone who can speak to the majority of the nation,” the singer said. “There is a problem with the language that they’re using and the way they’re trying to reach people.”
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During a June 2018 performance of his Springsteen on Broadway residency, Springsteen went off script and played his song “The Ghost of Tom Joad” as a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policy of separating children from their undocumented parents.
Springsteen spoke at length to condemn the “inhumane” treatment required by the policy, per The Guardian, telling the audience: “For 146 shows, I have played pretty much the same set every night. Tonight demands something different.”
The singer has not let up on his political advocacy. During the May opening of the E Street Band’s European tour in Manchester, England, Springsteen delivered a fiery takedown of Trump.

“In my home, 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,” Springsteen said.
“Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American spirit to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.”
In response, President Trump slammed Springsteen on Truth Social, calling the rock icon “overrated” and suggesting there could be consequences when the musician returned stateside from his tour.
When asked about Trump’s criticism during his Time magazine interview, Springsteen took the jab in stride: “I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me.”