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

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,

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life (and launch The Boss’s new tour).

The 20-time Grammy winner gave “Streets of Minneapolis” its live debut at legendary local venue First Avenue during Tom Morello’s fundraiser for the families of Pretti and Good (a mother of three) on Jan. 30 and returned to it on March 28 at the flagship No Kings Rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, in front of the Minnesota State Capitol.

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