John Fogerty of Credence Clearwater Revival praised legendary musician Bruce Springsteen for criticizing President Donald Trump in a Rolling Stone interview printed on Monday. Fogerty recommended Springsteen for overtly opposing Trump and standing up for his values.
“I’m actually happy with Bruce for simply sticking up for his values and, and never being afraid to voice them,” stated the “Down on the Nook” singer.
Bruce Springsteen has been a vocal critic of President Trump for practically a decade. Throughout his newest world tour, the “Born to Run” singer has included a quick anti-Trump speech in his units, urging audiences to see the president as a risk to civilization that have to be resisted.
“In my dwelling, the America I really like, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is at present within the arms of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” he stated in between songs at his Manchester present in Could.
“Tonight, we ask all who imagine in democracy and one of the best of our American expertise to rise with us, increase your voices towards authoritarianism and let freedom ring,” he continued, elsewhere through the set including, “There’s some very bizarre, unusual and harmful s— occurring on the market proper now.”
Trump responded to Springsteen a number of days later in a put up on his Reality Social platform.
“I see that Extremely Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a International Nation to talk badly in regards to the President of the USA. By no means favored him, by no means favored his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a proficient man — Only a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who got here near destroying our Nation.”
Springsteen introduced final 12 months that he can be voting for former Vice President Kamala Harris through the 2024 presidential race.