Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have been forced to enhance their security after receiving death threats. This comes after the 76-year-old rock legend repeatedly called the Donald Trump administration “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.” He said it during the Land of Hope and Dreams tour, which began on March 31 and will conclude on May 30.
Springsteen’s latest tour will implement tighter security amid his criticism of Donald Trump and receiving death threats
Guitarist Stevie Van Zandt told the Daily Mail, “This tour has been a little bit different because of the high security. It’s a very specific political theme to this tour, and there’s been a lot of threats, death threats. Usually, there’s always some, but this time it’s been increasing.”
Van Zandt said they had to beef up security. He explained that “it’s not like we’re saying something that’s not true or we’re saying something that’s so really particularly controversial, but it’s specifically political.” He added, “So the FBI and others have been really watching things and been overly concerned about it, as they should be. We want the fans to be safe and feel safe. So we really go the extra mile with extra security for that reason alone.”
Van Zandt claimed that security hasn’t disrupted their performance and mentioned that he was political in his early years. “I actually am a lot less political now. I’m really not particularly interested anymore, but ironically, as I got out of it, Bruce got into it,” he expressed.
On March 31, at the opening night of the tour in Minneapolis, Springsteen told the attendees, as reported by Louder, “The America that I love, the America that I’ve written about for 50 years, that’s been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration.”
He added, “Tonight we ask all of you to join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, resistance over complacency, unity over division, and peace over war.”
Originally reported by Meenakshi Sengupta for Reality Tea.
