Trump demands a “thorough research” of artists who supported Kamala Harris, such as Beyoncé or Bruce Springsteen | People
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, went on Monday, May 19 to his social network, Truth, to demand a “thorough research” to personalities, mostly artistic and include singers Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, who supported Kamala Harris’s electoral campaign in 2024 – his opponent Democrat to which he won the elections of November 4. In his messages, the president alleges that the participations of these artists in the acts of his rival in the White House were financed by potentially illegal contributions.
“How much did Kamala Harris pay to Bruce Springsteen for his bad performance during his presidential campaign (” The boss “sang on October 28, 2024 in Georgia)? Why did he accept that money if he is so fan of her? Isn’t it an important and illegal campaign contribution?”, Write Trump capital letters in his profile. His message continues like this: “What about Beyoncé? After the examples, the Republican President continued with his demand: “I will request thorough investigation into this matter. Candidates cannot pay for support, which is what Kamala did, under the pretext of paying for entertainment.”
At the end of the message, Trump emphasizes: “In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially increase its poor audience. It is not legal! For these antipatriot artists, this was simply a corrupt and illegal form of capitalizing a broken system.”
Trump’s accusations to these artists are late: both Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé have already denied in the last accusations about irregular financing spotted against them and other artists who participated in the events organized by the Democrat during her candidacy. The first argued in November 2024 that the payment of one million dollars (about 890,000 euros, to the current exchange) by the Harris campaign was delivered to its producer to cover the costs of an interview organized during the campaign, denying that they were delivered to him as payment to go to an act of the then US vice president. Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, also denied in November last year that the singer had received ten million dollars (about 8.9 million euros) for appearing in a campaign act.
Trump’s new message in Truth occurs after the various clashes that the president has had with recognized personalities of the entertainment industry. Bruce Springsteen attacked, on Saturday, May 17, at the Concert in Manchester (United Kingdom) of his tour The Land of Hopes and Dreams To the American president and his policies: “My home, the United States that I love has been a lighthouse of hope and freedom for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and traitorous administration,” said Springsteen on stage. The New Jersey singer also accused the Trump administration of “abandoning the poorest children in the world to illness and death” and “enjoying the pain that inflict American workers loyal.”
Trump replied through his social network as follows: “I see that overvalued Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to speak badly of the president of the United States,” Trump’s long text started in Truth. “I never liked, I never liked his music or his radical left policy and, more importantly, he is not a talent guy. Only a arrogant and unpleasant fool who fervently supported the corrupt Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent idiot and our worst president of history, who was about to destroy our country,” he continued. And he added: “Springsteen is ‘silly like a stone’ and could not see what was happening, or yes (which is even worse)?” “This rocker dry as a pass (it has all stunted skin!) It should keep your mouth closed until I return to this country. That is normal. Then we will see how it is doing,” the president concluded.
In addition, last Friday, Trump also attacked Taylor Swift in a Truth post where he said: “Has anyone noticed that since I said ‘I hate Taylor Swift’ (in September 2024), she is no longer ‘popular’?” The rivalry of the singer with the president comes from afar and increased when the Pennsylvania publicly supported Harris for the US presidency.
The United States Federation of Musicians has defended Swift and Springsteen from the US president’s insults: “Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift are not only brilliant musicians, but also models to follow and inspiration for millions of people in the United States and throughout the world,” said its president, Tino Gagliard, in a statement collected by the EFE agency.
