Here’s how rocker Bruce Springsteen began a show in Manchester, England tonight:

“The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration. Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”

What an asshole.

Going to a foreign country and attacking the U.S. government and the President isn’t just poor citizenship, it’s stupid. A concert audience didn’t pay exorbitant sums to hear political statements from a musician regarding their own country, much less another one. Meanwhile, Springsteen has shown no indications of knowing what he’s talking about; he’s just repeating the anti-Trump talking points that he hears or reads second-hand.

In an interview with “Variety” in 2017 the singer was asked why he hadn’t been more outspoken against Trump I.0 and said, “Well, if you read Charles Blow in The New York Times, he carries the flag pretty well.” There you go: signature significance! Blow, as regular readers here know, was an early Trump Derangement victim who never let facts, fairness or reality interfere with his rants. Bruce later became one of the celebrities who was receiving money to pimp for Kamala Harris (if she wasn’t paying him, he has reason to complain bitterly since her campaign was shelling out so much to other celebrities for appearances and endorsements). Bruce’s dim-bulb pitch for the most unqualified, least competent Presidential candidate since 1872 was…

“She’s running to be the 47th president of the United States. Donald Trump is running to be an American tyrant. He does not understand this country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American. And that’s why November 5, I’m casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I urge all of you who believe in the American way to join me.”

Of course, Donald Trump understands his country very, very well, and a lot better than the advocates of open borders, “good” discrimination, defunding the police, gun confiscation and refusing to stand for the National Anthem…..or, apparently, Bruce Spingsteen. Bruce is bidding to be the rock version of Robert De Niro, and he has approximately the same qualifications as a pundit—none. De Niro is a high school drop-out; Springsteen is a college dropout. There is no evidence that either are especially well-read or discerning regarding history or politics.

But Bruce feels that it is appropriate for him to trash his President in front of foreign audiences.

It isn’t.