Springsteen Issues Live EP Featuring Anti-Trump Rants

Variety reports:

Bruce Springsteen, who has been fiercely criticizing the Trump Administration on a nightly basis on his European tour with the E Street Band, will release an EP from the opening night of the tour titled “Land of Hope and Dreams.”

Recorded in Manchester, England on May 14, the EP features four songs and two of his introductions to those songs, which were fiery enough to provoke the ire of President Trump himself, who first insulted Springsteen (shortly after insulting Taylor Swift), and then called for a federal investigation into baseless rumors about whether Springsteen and several others were paid to appear at fund-raisers for Kamala Harris.

In a characteristically presidential social media post, Trump responded Wednesday morning with a doctored video that showed him hitting a golf ball followed by a clip of Springsteen tripping onstage, making it appear that the golf ball had knocked the singer over.

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