Popular American singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen recently spoke up about the ICE killing of Renee Good during his performance at the Light of Day Winterfest main event show on Saturday, January 17, in New Jersey. The singer criticized President Donald Trump’s administration’s deployment of ICE agents to Minneapolis and their response to the killing of Renee.
Bruce Springsteen gave a monologue while introducing his song “The Promise Land,” which he described as one of his greatest and most revered songs.
He said:
“I wrote this song as an ode to American possibility. It was about a both beautiful but flawed country, that we are, and the country that we could be. Right now, we are living through incredibly critical times. The United States, the ideals and the values for which it stood for the past 250 years, is being tested as it’s never been in modern times.”
He continued as the audience broke into applause:
“Those values and those ideals have never been as endangered as they are right now. So as we gather tonight in this beautiful display of love and care and thoughtfulness and community, if you believe in democracy and liberty and believe the truth still matters, you must speak out, and it’s worth fighting for.”
Bruce Springsteen urged his audience to uphold the American core values and continue to make their voices heard. He sent a message to the president of the United States of America.
“If you believe in the power of the law and that no one stands above it. If you stand against heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city, using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens. If you believe you don’t deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, send a message to this president, as the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.”
He concluded the monologue
“This song is for you and the memory of a mother of three, American Renee Good,” and launched into the opening notes of The Promise Land.
Bruce Springsteen criticized the Trump administration
Bruce Springsteen has been very vocal in his criticisms of Donald Trump’s leadership and his administration. Last year, during the E Street Band‘s tour of Europe, Bruce spoke against Trump’s actions in America, describing his administration as treasonous and incompetent.
“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.”
President Donald Trump responded to the criticism in a post on his Truth Social account. He wrote:
“I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. 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 … This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.”
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Edited by Onuh Eunice