“I didn’t need Beyoncé and Jay-Z, I didn’t need little Bruce Springsteen,” Trump said at the rally. The president was referring to the musicians’ support of Hillary Clinton in 2016. Beyoncé and Jay-Z hosted an Ohio campaign event for Clinton, and Springsteen was on record at the time as thinking Trump was a “moron” and “deeply damaged at his core.”
Trump also said — without any evidence at all — that Springsteen would perform at Clinton rallies, “do about two songs then leave. … And she’s still speaking in front of the same lousy crowd.”Donald Trump's Accountants Must Honor Subpoena To Turn Taxes Over To Congress, Appeals Court Says Although none of the three performers mentioned by Trump has yet responded, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, defended his state’s hero:
Little Bruce Springsteen? I think you mean Bruce Springsteen and the heart-stopping, hard-rocking, earth-quaking, justifying, death-defying, legendary E Street Band