Bruce Springsteen speaks out against Donald Trump at his San Sebastián concert: "I ask you to raise your voices and join us against authoritarianism."

Shortly before Donald Trump bombed Iran, Bruce Springsteen was performing in San Sebastián and, unaware of what was about to happen, delivered a clear message against the Trump administration on stage.

After greeting the San Sebastian crowd with a "Gabon Donostia" that adores him, just as Springsteen loves the city, where he has spent days off on several of his visits, even when the concert in question was not in San Sebastian.

After linking the opening track with a frenetic "My Love Will Not Let You Down," the "Boss" launched his message, with subtitles on the screens so that no one would miss it, against a "corrupt, incompetent, and traitorous" Trump Administration, repeating word for word the words he spoke in Manchester.

"To all of you who believe in democracy, I ask you to raise your voices and join us against authoritarianism ," he proclaimed, giving way to "Land of Hope and Dreams," with subtitles, as was the case with all the songs chosen to reinforce his message.

Supported powerfully by the highly professional E Street Band, the American musician interspersed old songs like "Darkness in the Edge of Town," "The Promised Land," "The River," and "Hungry Hearts"—complete with a crowd of people—with songs from this century, like "Death to My Hometown" and "Lonesome Day." He no longer leaps around the stage, as he once did, but he retains a powerful voice with which to make himself heard.

He again remembered Trump—"when the conditions for a demagogue to emerge in a country are right, you can be sure he'll appear"—to dedicate "Rainmaker" to him, again with subtitles. A song about a "rainmaker," a charlatan who hires out his services to those in need of hope.

Before singing "House of a Thousand Guitars," he called on Americans to organize "at work, at home, peacefully in the streets." Then, addressing "My City is on Ruins," he addressed criticisms of the Trump administration for expelling immigrants, persecuting freedom of expression, abandoning its allies, eliminating university funding, and cozying up to dictators. "They don't understand the meaning of being deeply American. We will survive this moment," he asserted.

But these are dark days in his country, and the "Boss" isn't in the mood for celebration. For that reason, he's saved a true prayer for his country for the end. His final act, as throughout the European tour, was with Bob Dylan's stirring "Chimes of Freedom." A song of empathy for those who live on the margins, for the forgotten and dispossessed. "Chimes of freedom" that rose, like a prayer, to the dark and threatening sky of San Sebastián.