Bruce Springsteen has been receiving an increasing number of death threats during his new tour.
“This tour has been a little bit different because of the high security,” Steven Van Zandt, Springsteen’s longtime guitarist in the E Street Band, shared with the Daily Mail. “It's a very specific political theme to this tour and there's been a lot of threats, death threats. Usually there's always some, but this time it's been increasing.”
The legendary rocker’s politically-charged Land of Hope and Dreams Tour sees Springsteen, a vocal critic of Donald Trump, regularly speaking out against the current US administration’s actions, including the war in Iran and ICE immigration enforcement.
On 31 March, at the opening night of the tour at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Springsteen told the audience: "The America that I love, the America that I’ve written about for 50 years, that's been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration."
He added: "Tonight we ask all of you to join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, resistance over complacency, unity over division, and peace over war."
