Bruce Springsteen is the latest famous voice to denounce the Trump administration’s actions in Minneapolis last weekend. Though hardly the only American city to see deaths at the hands of ICE officers, the widely-circulated, incredibly-distressing videos of officers killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti have earned the nation’s outrage. As Springsteen puts it in his new track “Streets Of Minneapolis,” released this afternoon, “A city aflame fought fire and ICE/‘Neath an occupier’s boots/King Trump’s private army from the DHS.”
“I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” Springsteen wrote in a message on Instagram white debuting the track. “It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free, Bruce Springsteen.”
Springsteen has long been a vocal critic of both Trump and ICE. After the killing of Good, The Boss performed at a surprise show where he denounced ICE’s “gestapo tactics” in Minneapolis. Last year, Springsteen shared a some of his anti-Trump speeches, delivered during his European tour in 2025, on Spotify and Apple Music. This isn’t even the first anti-Trump song that Springsteen has written; in 2017, he shared the song “That’s What Makes Us Great,” which included lyrics like: “I never put my faith / In a con man and his crooks.” You can listen to “Streets Of Minneapolis” below.
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