The Trump administration called Bruce Springsteen’s new protest song in Minneapolis “irrelevant” and “inaccurate” and lectured journalists on how to do their jobs.

Springsteen premiered “Streets of Minneapolis” on Wednesday, criticizing “King Trump” and the “dirty lies” of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller. The administration described Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two citizens shot and killed by federal agents, as instigators, even though videos of the incidents told a different story.

“The Trump Administration is focused on encouraging state and local Democrats to work with federal law enforcement agents to remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens from their communities, not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information,” the White House said in a statement issued by spokeswoman Abigail Jackson. “The media should cover how Democrats have refused to work with the Administration and have instead chosen to provide safe haven for these illegal criminals.”

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Bruce Springsteen sings against “Trump’s federal thugs” in protest song about Minneapolis riots.

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Springsteen had previously accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement of using “Gestapo tactics” in its hunt for immigrants and demanded that federal agents “get the hell out of Minneapolis.”

But this week the Boss did one of the things he does best: put his outrage into a song:

Trump’s federal goons took a beating

His face and his chest

Then we heard the shots.

And Alex Pretti was lying in the snow, dead.

Your claim was in self-defense, sir.

Just don’t believe your eyes

It’s our blood and bones

And these whistles and telephones

Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.

Springsteen followed his release with a lyric video on Thursday. Check it out here.