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 known as for an investigation into Springsteen after the singer condemned the actions of the U.S. administration throughout a live performance within the U.Ok. just a few 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 Fact Social accounts.
The clip reveals 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 Fact 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 significant investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, beneath 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 strategy to capitalize on a damaged system,” the president concluded.
About eight hours later, he took to social media once more.
“In response to information experiences, 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 thousands and thousands of {Dollars} for doing nothing aside 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 certainly 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 group 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 gifted man.”
“I see that Extremely Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a International Nation to talk badly concerning the President of america,” Trump wrote on Fact Social. “By no means favored him, by no means favored his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a gifted man,” the president wrote.
He accused Springsteen of being a “pushy, obnoxious JERK” and “dumb as a rock,” earlier than fixating on his appears.
“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 Photographs), criticized the taking pictures by New York Metropolis law enforcement officials of an unarmed Guinean immigrant named Amadou Diallo, angering a number of the blue-collar segments of his fan base.
— with recordsdata from International Information’ Michelle Butterfield, Katie Scott and The Related Press
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