Trump Critic Bruce Springsteen Notes Censorship And Hatred At Biopic Premiere

LOADINGERROR LOADINGBruce Springsteen, who blasted President Donald Trump in a Time interview published last week, spoke Sunday of a “battered” America trying to operate without “fear or divisiveness or government censorship or hatred.”The rock legend appeared at the New York Film Festival premiere of a movie about his life, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.” The film covers Springsteen’s struggle against depression and burnout as he worked on his 1982 “Nebraska” album.The music icon is played by Jeremy Allen White.Advertisement Springsteen, 76, has stepped up his criticism of the president since the second term began, but kept his remarks somewhat aspirational to the festival audience ― without mentioning Trump specifically.Click here to watch the video shared by The Washington Post’s Jada Yuan.“These days, we have daily events reminding us of the fact that we’re living through these particularly dangerous times,” he said.

“I spent my life on the road.I’ve been moving around the world.

I was a kind of musical ambassador for America, you know, trying to measure the distance between American reality, where we’ve often fallen short of our ideals, and the American Dream.” He added, “I’ve seen that America, as battered as she feels right now.But for a lot of folks out there, she continues to be a land of hope and dreams, not of fear, or divisiveness, or government censorship, or hatred.

That America’s worth fighting for.”Advertisement The Lincoln Center crowd cheered Springsteen’s apparent dig at Trump for his administration’s pressure tactics, which led to Disney-owned network ABC temporarily pulling Jimmy Kimmel from the air, Yuan reported.But Springsteen didn’t go further, which could have been awkward given the presence of Disney CEO Bob Iger.“So, it’s in that spirit that I brought along my lifelong weapon of choice: the guitar,” Springsteen said.Advertisement He made a few more remarks ...