President Donald Trump is escalating his feud with American music legend Bruce Springsteen, a longtime critic of the president, hours after delivering a prime-time address in which he telegraphed plans to continue hitting Iran over the next couple weeks.

Springsteen kicked off his Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour at the packed Target Center with a show that lasted just shy of three hours, with no intermission.

The morning after Donald Trump addressed the nation about the war in Iran, he set his sights on a celebrity: Bruce Springsteen. The singer launched his new tour this week in Minneapolis, and he already had indicated that he would speak out about the president in between his sets.

First of all, let's dispense with some Bruce Springsteen mythology: It is a fallacy that all his concerts last three hours. Opening a fresh tour Tuesday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Springsteen and the E Street Band turned in a performance that lasted exactly 2 hours and 54 minutes,

"The power of solidarity, of the people of Minneapolis, was an inspiration to the entire country," the rocker said during his Tuesday, March 31 show

Bruce Springsteen's intense messaging is balanced with his joy of music on the Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour.

During his tour opener in Minneapolis, the rocker accused Trump of presiding over "a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous administration."

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