Bruce Springsteen is criticizing Democrats as ineffective in pushing back against President Trump, saying the issue lies with both the “language that they’re using” and how “they’re trying to reach people.”
“We’re desperately in need of an effective alternative party, or for the Democratic Party to find someone who can speak to the majority of the nation,” the “Born in the USA” singer said in an interview with Time magazine published Thursday.
“There is a problem with the language that they’re using and the way they’re trying to reach people,” Springsteen, 76, said.
The Grammy Award winner — who campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris during last year’s presidential race — has been a vocal Trump critic.
“A lot of people bought into his lies,” Springsteen said of Trump’s supporters.
“You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance,” Springsteen said.
“[Trump] doesn’t care about the forgotten — anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day,” the performer told the magazine.
Calling Trump the “living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for,” Springsteen railed against lawmakers.
“If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history,” he said.
The music star brushed off Trump’s most recent attacks on him.
In May, the president posted an edited video on social media showing him striking Springsteen with a golf ball after the entertainer ripped his administration at a concert as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.”
“I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me,” Springsteen said with a laugh, according to Time.
