The Boss is dreading Inauguration Day.
Bruce Springsteen voiced his displeasure with President-elect Donald Trump in a guest appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.
“I’ve felt disgust before, but never the kind of fear that you feel now,” Springsteen said of the incoming Trump administration.
“It’s as simple as the fear of, is someone simply competent enough to do this particular job? Forget about where they are ideologically. Do they simply have the pure competence to be put in the position of such responsibility?”
The New Jersey rocker has previously spoken out about the President-elect, calling his campaign “a tragedy for our democracy.”
He later described him as a “flagrant, toxic narcissist,” as well as performed at a Hillary Clinton rally the night before the election.
Now, less than three weeks until Trump takes office, Springsteen said he’s worried about how the country will continue under the new presidency.
“When you let that genie out of the bottle — bigotry, racism, intolerance, they don’t go back in the bottle that easily if they go back in at all,” Springsteen said on Maron’s podcast.
“Whether it’s a rise in hate crimes, people feeling they have license to speak and behave in ways that previously were considered un-American and are un-American. That’s what he’s appealing to. My fears are that those things find a place in ordinary, civil society.”
