President Donald Trump fired off a signature early-morning Truth Social broadside, torching rock legend Bruce Springsteen in a blistering rant that lit up his base and gassing up his long-running feud with Hollywood’s left flank, as some of the biggest names in the industry prepare to release a movie criticizing the president due to release at the height of early voting.
“Bad, and very boring singer,” Trump wrote of “The Boss,” adding that Springsteen “looks like a dried up prune” and suffers from an “incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The former president didn’t stop there, urging supporters to boycott the rocker’s “overpriced concerts.”
The fiery post appears to be a response to Springsteen’s appearance at the recent “No Kings” rallies — events pushed heavily across social media by Democratic operatives and longtime Trump critics, including James Carville and Democratic congressional candidate George Conway.
Despite Trump’s jab at his age, Springsteen — now in his 70s — continues to flex surprising staying power in pop culture. His recent biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, delivered solid box office numbers and kept the rocker squarely in the spotlight.
Now, the Hollywood duo is reportedly teaming up again — this time for The Social Reckoning, a follow-up of sorts to 2009’s The Social Network — with a plot pivoting toward the January 6th riot and its political fallout. Strong is no stranger to TDS-based cinema, having starred as Roy Cohn in 2024’s straight-to-streaming bomb “The Apprentice,” while White will be making his debut performance in the genre.
Aaron Sorkin, a longtime left-wing director, is set to write and direct the upcoming picture. Sorkin wrote the original screenplay for The Social Network, along with other masterworks of liberal utopian canon such as The West Wing, The American President and The Newsroom.
Slated for an October release, The Social Reckoning is landing just in time for peak election season — and, critics say, could dovetail neatly with well-funded Democratic efforts to energize voters ahead of the midterms.
Trump is likely to post his thoughts about the movie on his Truth Social account, sources close to the president tell the Washington Reporter.