In the course of the encore portion of PEARL JAM’s present in Pittsburgh, PA on Friday (Could sixteenth), frontman Eddie Vedder carried out a solo acoustic rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s track “My Metropolis of Ruins.”
Though he didn’t clarify why he was enjoying the monitor, Vedder’s cowl of “My Metropolis of Ruins” appears to be a direct response to the continuing drama between Springsteen and President Donald Trump.
Throughout his Manchester, England present this previous Wednesday (Could 14th), Springsteen expressed his dislike for the present administration, saying partly: “In my residence, the America I like, the America I’ve written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is at present within the fingers of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.
“Tonight, we ask all who consider in democracy and the perfect of our American spirit to rise with us, increase your voices towards authoritarianism and let freedom ring. That is ‘Land of Hope and Desires.’”
Previous to enjoying “My Metropolis of Ruins” at his personal live performance, Springsteen added: “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 occurring now. In America, the richest males are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest kids to illness and dying. That is occurring now.”
Springsteen later continued: “A majority of our elected representatives have failed to guard the American folks from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue authorities.”
Simply days later, on Friday (Could sixteenth), the President went on a social media tirade in response to The Boss’ feedback.
“I see that Extremely Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Overseas Nation to talk badly in regards to the President of the USA. By no means preferred him, by no means preferred his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a gifted man — Only a pushy, obnoxious JERK,” Trump wrote on Fact Social.
He continued, calling Springsteen “dumb as a rock” earlier than attacking the musician’s bodily look: “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his pores and skin is all atrophied!) should KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT till he will get again into the Nation, that’s simply ‘commonplace fare.’ Then we’ll all see the way it goes for him!”