Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“On Friday, as he returned to the United States from a four-day tour of the Persian Gulf, Donald Trump berated Bruce Springsteen for criticizing him on foreign soil. ‘I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,’ Trump fumed on Truth Social. Out of respect for America, Trump wrote, Springsteen ‘ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country.’ Trump’s indignation was comically insincere. His whole trip to the Gulf was about badmouthing America and renouncing American values.” (05/20/25)