Bij zijn tweede concert in Manchester heeft Bruce Springsteen opnieuw forse kritiek geuit op Donald Trump en zijn beleid.
Sprinsgeen noemde hem een ‘an unfit president’en zijn kabinet ‘a rogue government’.
Verder zei hij: ‘Things are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country’s democracy, and they’re too important to ignore.
In America, my home, they’re persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. That’s happening now.
In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. That’s happening now. In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just society. They’re abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those who are struggling for their freedom. That’s happening now. They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands. And they are removing residents off American streets without due process of law and deploying them to foreign detention centers and prisons. That’s happening now.’
Ook zei hij opnieuw: ‘A majority of our elected representatives have utterly failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American.
The America I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its many faults, it’s a great country with a great people, and we will survive this moment. Well, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, ‘In this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.’
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