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‘So polarised’: Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments divide US fans
Tensions among the rock icon’s fanbase have spread to his home state of New Jersey
Trump called for a “major investigation” into Springsteen, Beyoncé and other celebrities, alleging that they had been paid millions of dollars to endorse his Democratic opponent in the 2024 election, Kamala Harris. His 2001 song American Skin (41 Shots), criticised the shooting by New York City police officers of an unarmed Guinean immigrant named Amadou Diallo, angering some of the blue-collar segments of his fanbase. Dan DeLuca, who grew up in Ventnor, New Jersey, and is now a popular music critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, says:“The thing about Bruce that people love is this idea of being a truth teller.
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