Bruce Springsteen launches a harsh attack on Donald Trump at San Siro: "They are allying themselves with dictators"

An extremely elegant, as never seen before (at least in Milan), Bruce Springsteen did what he knows how to do: he set San Siro on fire with one of the most anticipated shows of the season. The Meazza stage was the backdrop for a show that confirmed the fans' expectations, but also a megaphone for political themes that the Boss wanted to express. On the other hand, in over 50 years of career he has seen many presidents succeed each other at the White House and he has never failed to have his say.

The speech against the American government

Springsteen's attack was blunt: "The America I love, which for 250 years has been a beacon of hope, dreams and freedom, is in the hands of a corrupt, treacherous and incompetent administration," the Boss said in English, while Italian subtitles were playing on the screens. "Tonight we ask you to stand up for democracy, to stand up and make your voice heard against authoritarianism and let freedom ring."

"Things are happening now that alter the very nature of our countries' democracy and they are too important to ignore," the artist continues. "In my home America, they are persecuting people who exercise free speech and voice their dissent. This is happening now. The richest men find satisfaction in abandoning the poorest children in the world to disease and death. In my country, they are sadistically enjoying the pain inflicted on honest American workers."

"They are abandoning our greatest allies and are allying themselves with dictators, against those who are fighting for their freedom," he continues. "They are defunding American universities. who do not bow to their ideological demands. They are taking American residents off the streets without any trial, deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons."

"The majority of elected officials have utterly failed to protect Americans from the abuses of an unfit president and a crooked government. The America I have sung about for nearly 50 years is real despite all its flaws: it is an incredible country with incredible people. We will survive this moment." He does not lose hope, however, "because I believe in the truth stated by the great American writer James Baldwin: there is not as much humanity in this world as one would wish there were, but there is enough of it," Springsteen concluded.