While the investigation continues after an armed gunman attempted to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD), some of the President’s harshest critics seem to pulling back on the rhetoric, at least for now. Bruce Springsteen has called for the President’s impeachment, has described the administration as “corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous, and spent his latest tour criticizing the actions of ICE in Minnesota. The White House, likewise, has gone after him in turn with spokesman Steven Cheung saying, “When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he’ll realise his Glory Days are behind him and his fans have left him Out in the Street, putting him in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain”

Springsteen came with a more tempered approach, however, during a recent show at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.  “We begin tonight with a prayer for our men and women in service overseas, we pray for their safe return We also send out a prayer of thanks that our president, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending, was injured at last night’s incident at the [White House] press correspondents’ dinner,” said Springsteen. “We can disagree,” he went on. “We can be critical of those in power, and we can peacefully fight for our beliefs. But there is no place in any way, shape, or form for political violence of any kind in our beloved United States.”

Social media had a mostly positive response to Springsteen’s comments. “Bruce Springsteen spent months hammering Trump, then stood on stage in Austin last night and asked his crowd to pray for the president’s safety,” noted one account on X. “The shooting at the WHCA dinner changes the temperature fast. “There is no place in any way, shape, or form for political violence of any kind in our beloved U.S.” When someone takes a power shot, even the loudest critics remember what’s actually at stake.”

Others have not responded in as reconciliatory a manner. Jimmy Kimmel has earned the ire of both the President and First Lady Melania Trump for a joke he made about the President’s death prior to the dinner. Kimmel had performed a mock dinner on his show, where he turned to a pre-recorded image of the First Lady and complimented her on her “glow like an expectant widow.” In light of the attack, some have charged that the joke was a call to violence. Kimmel, however, has defended the remarks. “It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” he said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.”