Bruce Springsteen Calls for ‘No Kings’ Amid Trump Protests: ‘All Hell Is Breaking Loose in the United States’

Bruce Springsteen is continuing to speak out against Donald Trump, with the rock star offering up a “prayer” for “no kings” amid the ongoing protests against the president.

At the American Film Institute Opening Night Gala on Wednesday (Oct. 22) — where Springsteen was in attendance to support new biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere — The Boss performed his song “Land of Hopes and Dreams.” Before diving into the track, however, he called it a “prayer for America, our community and no kings,” according to USA Today.

“Outside, all hell is breaking loose in the United States,” Springsteen added at the event. “For 250 years around the world, despite all the faults that we’ve had, the United States has served as a beacon of democracy and hope and freedom.”

Despite how “terribly damaged” he thinks the country is, though, Springsteen also noted that the nation’s “ideals remain worth fighting for.”

Billboard has reached out to the White House for comment.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s comments prove he’s making good on his pledge to keep calling out the faults he sees in the Trump administration. “I’m going to stay true to who I’ve tried to be,” he told TIME in September. “I can’t give these guys a free pass.”

Though countless musicians have voiced opposition to the twice-impeached POTUS’ policies, Springsteen stands out as one that Trump has addressed directly — multiple times. After the songwriter slammed the U.S. government’s “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” leadership at a concert in May, the president called him “dumb as a rock” and a “pushy, obnoxious JERK” in a heated Truth Social post.

That didn’t stop Springsteen from calling Trump a “moron” in a June interview. “It’s an American tragedy,” he told The New York Times at the time. “I think that it was the combination of the deindustrialization of the country and then the incredible increase in wealth disparity that left so many people behind. It was ripe for a demagogue.”

Watch a clip of Springsteen’s performance below: