A rumor that carmaker Jeep stopped advertising with musician Bruce Springsteen circulated online following his public criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump in mid-May 2025. The Facebook page America's Last Line of Defense posted the rumor on May 17, 2025:

As is his way, Bruce Springsteen is talking about his love of America (and his dislike of Donald Trump). The “Born in the USA” singer has used his music as a way to praise his American roots while also criticizing our more negative parts.

Bruce Springsteen may be launching a weeks-long tour across Europe, but he won't let the "dangerous times" he sees brewing back home go unnoticed. The rock and roller addressed his opening night crowd in Manchester,

Neil Young, one of Donald Trump's most vocal critics in the music industry, weighed in on the president's online fight with Bruce Springsteen and other musicians this week, thanking Springsteen for speaking up while encouraging the world's most powerful person to focus on more pressing issues at hand than what recording artists say about him.

The lifelong Democrat is poised to antagonize the commander-in-chief for the duration of his summer-long European concert tour.

Springsteen also criticized the Trump administration for “persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent”