{"id":9254,"date":"2025-11-17T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:28:06","slug":"bono-joins-forces-with-springsteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=9254","title":{"rendered":"Bono Joins Forces With Springsteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1. Feud Begins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While touring Europe, Bruce Springsteen criticized U.S. leadership as \u201ccorrupt, incompetent and treasonous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump fired back online, calling him a \u201cdried out prune of a rocker\u201d and warning him to stay quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Bono Steps In<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>, Bono publicly sided with Springsteen, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s only one boss in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His comments pulled more attention to the escalating dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Denial of Election Claims<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bono also rejected Trump\u2019s accusation that he and other artists were paid to support Kamala Harris,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>insisting, \u201cU2 and I [were] never paid \u2013 or played \u2013 a show to support any candidate from any party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Growing Tensions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Criticizing Trump\u2019s platform, Bono remarked it \u201cseems to be pretty antisocial and it\u2019s not very true a lot of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their clash continues a long-running tension dating back to Bono\u2019s warnings before the 2016 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Feud Begins While touring Europe, Bruce Springsteen criticized U.S. leadership as \u201ccorrupt, incompetent and treasonous.\u201d Donald Trump fired back online, calling him a \u201cdried out prune of a rocker\u201d and warning him to stay quiet. 2. Bono Steps In On&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bono publicly sided with Springsteen, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s only one boss in America.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}