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Bruce Springsteen kicked off his 2025 Land of Hope and Dreams European tour by delivering a fiery speech that railed against Donald Trump. ”The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll, in dangerous times," he told the crowd after walking onto the stage on Wednesday night in Manchester. ”My home, the America I love, the America I've written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring. This is Land of Hope and Dreams.” The "Born in the USA" singer is a passionate liberal who has campaigned for every Democratic presidential candidate over the past two decades. He’s made no effort to disguise his contempt for President Trump, but this is his most passionate denunciation of him to date. Hammering the point home, he followed up Land of Hope and Dreams with Death to My Hometown, a politically-charged song from his 2012 LP Wrecking Ball about how corporate greed contributed to the Great Recession of 2007/08. This tour, initially seen as an additional leg of Springsteen and the E Street Band's Letter To Run, which kicked off in early 2023, was renamed The Land of Hope and Dreams tour earlier this month.
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