Bruce Springsteen apparently he had no time for the former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie at his Brooklyn concert.
The video was shared on X by the journalist Mike Ryan showed off during the E Street Band’s Barclays Center show on Thursday, May 14.
As “The Boss,” made his way through the crowd to shake hands with fans, Christie, 63, held out his own hand — and appeared to be oblivious as Springsteen, 76, passed him. Christie immediately pulled back her hand, shook and started clapping along with the music.
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for Christie and Springsteen for comment.
Springsteen and Christie have a somewhat controversial history. The former governor is a big Springsteen fan who boasts of attending more than 100 of the rocker’s concerts over the years.
“No one is beyond Bruce’s reach,” he once said The Atlantic.
Former president Barack Obama he first connected the two in November 2012 when Springsteen was on Air Force One. During a phone call about Hurricane Sandy, Obama told Christie that Springsteen wanted to talk to him and have a brief conversation, Variety.
That same month, Springsteen and Christie greeted each other backstage at a Hurricane Sandy benefit concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attends a Bruce Springsteen concert in September 2024.
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images“We hugged,” Christie told reporters of her one-on-one meeting with her musical idol. “He told me it was official: we are friends. I told the president today that actually, the hug was nice and when we got home, there was a lot of crying because of the hug. And the president asked why. I said, ‘Well, to be honest, I was the one who cried.’
However, Springsteen later mocked Christie during the 2013 “Bridgegate” scandal. (Christie’s employees were accused of intentionally creating traffic near Fort Lee, New Jersey, by ordering the closure of a toll plaza. This political maneuver was seen as retaliation against the Mayor of Fort Lee. Mark Sokolich against the Christie administration.)
Christie was not charged with a crime in connection with the “Bridgegate” scandal, although many experts suggested that the controversy destroyed his support for his presidential campaign that died in 2016.
President Donald Trump has called on his supporters to boycott Bruce Springsteen after the singer embarked on his latest tour. “The terrible, boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a suspended person who has suffered greatly due to the work of a very bad plastic surgeon, has long had a terrible and incurable case of Trump. […]
At the height of the controversy, Springsteen joined Jimmy Fallon in his Late Night show in 2014 to sing a parody version of “Born to Run” about “Bridgegate.”
“Bridgegate baby was just pay / It’s a slap in the face to the state Democrats,” Fallon, 51, and Springsteen sing. “We’ve got to get out while we still can / we’re stuck in Governor Chris Christie’s Fort Lee-New Jersey traffic jam!”
Recently, Springsteen offered the President an olive branch Donald Trump during a public dispute that lasted for years. During a concert in Austin, Texas on April 26, Springsteen called his audience to a prayer after the shooting of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“We begin tonight with a prayer for our service men and women overseas, praying for their safe return,” Springsteen told fans. “Once again, we offer a prayer of thanks that our president, and whoever is in charge, and whoever was there, was injured in last night’s incident. [White House] press the writers’ dinner.”
He continued, “We can disagree, we can criticize those in power, and we can fight for our beliefs in peace. But there is no place in any way, shape, or form of political violence of any kind in our beloved United States.”
Suspected shooter Cole Thomas Allen It is suspected that he opened fire at the Washington Hilton on April 25 when President Trump, the first lady Melania TrumpVice President JD Vance and other officers of their superiors were present at the dinner.
Allen, 31, was arrested after injuring the Secret Service. He later pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transporting a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a crime and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
