Bruce Springsteen talks about a lot of things in his new Time magazine cover story: fame, family, therapy, touring with the E Street Band and the 50 th anniversary of his epochal “Born to Run” album — in fact, the issue appears almost exactly 50 years after his first Time cover (and simultaneous Newsweek one), which heralded him as rock’s bright new hope.

But the most attention-grabbing quotes are his fairly fearless statements about President Donald Trump , whom he initially shied away from criticizing directly (in a 2017 Variety interview ) but increasingly has slammed, beginning during his 2018 Broadway residency .

Since Trump’s re-election last year, he and the Boss have traded barbs, with Springsteen calling his administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” and

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