Donald Trump threatens to investigate Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé endorsements

The president is spreading more baseless lies, including that Springsteen is "not a talented guy."

By Mary Kate Carr  |  May 19, 2025 | 2:19pm
Screenshots clockwise from top left: Bruce Springsteen; NBC News; Oprah Winfrey; Apple TV+; Beyonce (YouTube)
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Donald Trump threatens to investigate Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé endorsements
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Okay, so at what point of the “President of the United States just openly calling for investigations into people he doesn’t like” phase do we start to get really concerned? Donald Trump’s attacks on news organizations already represent an existential threat to democracy. Now he’s also publicly naming individuals who supported his opponent and have been critical of his regime. Seems pretty bad!

“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? 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???” Trump demanded, baselessly, on his Truth Social platform. “I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”

Oh, man, where to even begin? With the false claim that anyone got paid to endorse Harris? (Already debunked, if it bears repeating.) With the embarrassing projection that Harris’ crowds needed to be artificially inflated? (It’s giving Drake.) With the fact that even several months into his second term, Trump’s main tactic for leadership is still, still, to continue attacking the opponents he’s already defeated? Are we living in Groundhog Day? Are we all, collectively, being punished?

It would be tired but accurate to say Donald Trump is driven by ego, spending the last week obsessing over news casts and celebrities. “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?'” he posted pathetically last week. (Swift isn’t in hiding, she just finished her tour.) And Springsteen really got Trump’s goat after the rocker declared at a U.K. concert that America “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.” Springsteen has espoused his liberal views and campaigned for Democrats basically forever, but his words still managed to incense the president. 

“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, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country. If I wasn’t elected, it would have been GONE by now!” Trump ranted on Truth Social. “Sleepy Joe didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is ‘dumb as a rock,’ and couldn’t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.’ Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

Okay, so that’s a barely-veiled threat towards an American citizen by the current president, yeah? Is this just something we’re okay with now? Hello? Anybody?

 
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