The Boss lowered the boom.
Bruce Springsteen criticized the Trump administration's deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Minneapolis and the fatal shooting by an ICE agent of Renee Good in comments at the Light of Day Winterfest main event show on Saturday, Jan. 17, in New Jersey.
"I wrote this song as an ode to American possibility," said Springsteen while introducing "The Promised Land." "It was about a both beautiful but flawed country, that we are, and the country that we could be. Right now, we are living through incredibly critical times. The United States, the ideals and the values for which it stood for the past 250 years, is being tested as it's never been in modern times."
The audience broke into applause.
"Those values and those ideals have never been as endangered as they are right now," Springsteen said. "So as we gather tonight in this beautiful display of love and care and thoughtfulness and community, if you believe in democracy and liberty and believe the truth still matters, you must speak out and it's worth fighting for."
