Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis” on Wednesday, blasting “King Trump” and the “dirty lies” of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller. The administration painted Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two citizens shot dead by federal officers, as instigators even though videos of the incidents told a different story.
“The Trump Administration is focused on encouraging state and local Democrats to work with federal law enforcement officers on removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from their communities — not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information,” the White House said in a statement issued by spokesperson Abigail Jackson. “The media should cover how Democrats have refused to work with the Administration, and instead, opted to provide sanctuary for these criminal illegals.”
Springsteen had already accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “Gestapo tactics” in its hunt for migrants and demanded that federal agents “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
But this week the Boss did one of the things he does best ― put his outrage into song:
Trump’s federal thugs beat up on
His face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots
And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead
Their claim was self-defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.
Springsteen followed up his release with a lyric video on Thursday. Check it out here.
