OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
7:43 PM – Monday, April 27, 2026
Despite performing at an anti-Trump “No Kings” protest, Bruce Springsteen offered a “prayer of thanks” that President Donald Trump was not killed in the shooting that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this past weekend.
“We begin tonight with a prayer for our men and women in service overseas, we pray for their safe return,” Springsteen told the crowd during the E Street Band’s show at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on Sunday night. “We also send out a prayer of thanks that our president, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending, was injured at last night’s incident at the [White House] press correspondents’ dinner.”
“We can disagree. We can be critical of those in power, and we can peacefully fight for our beliefs. But there is no place in any way, shape, or form for political violence of any kind in our beloved United States,” he added.
On Saturday evening, the president faced his third assassination attempt when a suspect, identified as 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen, rushed past a security checkpoint at Washington Hilton, where the dinner was taking place. He fired at a Secret Service officer, who was protected by his bulletproof vest, was then tackled and arrested.
Throughout the years, Springsteen has been extremely vocal about his contempt for the president. In January, he released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a song protesting ICE’s Operation Metro Surge, which sent thousands of federal agents to Minnesota to crack down on crime and illegal immigration.
In the lyrics, he referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as “King Trump’s private army from the DHS.” Additionally, last month, he performed the protest anthem at the flagship “No Kings” rally in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The musician has long described the Trump administration as “corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous,” and has called Trump a “president who can’t handle the truth.”
During a show in Newark, New Jersey, he even called on his audience to join him in “choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, resistance over complacency, truth over lies.”
Earlier this month, President Trump, who was not a Springsteen fan even before he was president, told his audience on Truth Social to “BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK.”
“Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump wrote. “The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election.”
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