Late Sunday evening (Might 18th), President Donald Trump took to his Fact Social account to name out Bruce Springsteen and different entertainers who supported 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris, asking the federal authorities to conduct a “main investigation” into their endorsements.
“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 wrote.
“I’m going to name for a significant investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, underneath the guise of paying for leisure. As well as, this was a really costly and determined effort to artificially construct up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was only a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL strategy to capitalize on a damaged system.”
In a separate submit the subsequent morning, Trump claimed that “Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to stroll onto a stage, rapidly ENDORSE KAMALA, and stroll off to loud booing for by no means having carried out.”
“BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!” he added.
This previous November, Beyoncé’s mom Tina Knowles denied the singer was paid to seem at Kamala’s rally in Houston, saying that Beyoncé paid her personal means. Equally, Oprah advised TMZ final 12 months that she was not paid for her endorsement. In response to TMZ, each Beyoncé and Oprah’s manufacturing firms have been reportedly paid for media companies, however not the quantity Trump is claiming.
This got here simply days after Springsteen expressed his dislike of the present administration, saying partially throughout his present in Manchester, England on Might 14th:
“In my house, the America I like… is at the moment within the fingers of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration…
“There’s some very bizarre, unusual, and harmful sh*t happening on the market. In America, they’re persecuting folks for utilizing their proper to free speech and voicing their dissent. That is taking place now. In America, the richest males are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest kids to illness and dying. That is taking place now.”
The next Friday (Might sixteenth), Trump warned Springsteen that he “must KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT,” writing on Fact Social “we’ll all see the way it goes for him” as soon as the rock star returns house to the USA after his tour.
Regardless of Trump’s warnings, Springsteen once more referred to as out the President whereas performing his second of three concert events in Manchester, England on Saturday (Might seventeenth).
“Issues are taking place proper now which might be altering the very nature of our nation’s democracy, and so they’re too essential to disregard,” Springsteen said, earlier than echoing a lot of the identical issues he stated throughout his Might 14th present.
“In my nation, they’re taking sadistic pleasure within the ache that they inflict on loyal American staff. They’re rolling again historic civil rights laws that led to a extra simply and ethical society. They’re abandoning our nice allies and siding with dictators in opposition to these struggling for his or her freedom. They’re defunding American universities that gained’t bow all the way down to their ideological calls for. They’re eradicating residents off American streets and with out due technique of legislation, are deporting them to international detention facilities and prisons. That is all taking place now.”