Grammy-winning singer Rod Stewart says he can’t be pals with President Donald Trump anymore, citing his administration’s ongoing assist for the brutal Israeli army marketing campaign in Gaza that has killed greater than 55,000 Palestinians since October 2023 in keeping with the Gaza Well being Ministry.
Stewart lately sat down for an interview with Radio Instances to advertise his upcoming set on the Glastonbury Competition, solely to tear into Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Israeli chief Benjamin Netanyahu — after being requested if he nonetheless considers Trump a good friend.
“No, I can’t any extra,” Stewart told the outlet. “So long as he’s promoting arms to the Israelis — and he nonetheless is. How’s that conflict ever gonna cease? And we should always cease promoting them as effectively. What did Starmer say yesterday? They dropped the talks on commerce?”
“What fucking distinction is that gonna make?” the singer continued. “Somebody’s gotta do one thing. What Netanyahu is doing to the Palestinians is strictly what occurred to the Jews. It’s annihilation, and that’s all he needs to do — eliminate all of them.”
“I don’t understand how they sleep at evening,” Stewart added.
This isn’t the primary time Stewart has criticized Trump. The rock icon reportedly mentioned forward of the 2016 election that he didn’t assume Trump was “presidential,” called him a “prick” in 2020 for pulling out of the Paris Local weather Accords and ridiculed him onstage last year.
Stewart used to ceaselessly socialize with the previous actual property tycoon, nevertheless. The rock icon defined throughout his interview Tuesday that he lives “actually half a mile” from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — and as soon as “knew him very, very effectively.”
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“I used to go to his Christmas events,” Stewart advised Radio Instances. “He’s at all times been a little bit of a person’s man. I appreciated him for that. However he didn’t, so far as I’m involved, deal with ladies very effectively. However since he turned president, he turned one other man.”
“Someone I didn’t know,” he mirrored.
The singer mocked Trump final yr during a Las Vegas concert forward of the 2024 election for “turning orange,” as Trump made the racist declare that then-Democratic nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris, “occurred to show Black” earlier than asserting her run.
Stewart is a model railway enthusiast at dwelling, but in addition politically energetic in his spare time.
In 2017, he lined all crucial bills for a bunch of youngsters with disabilities — whose mother and father couldn’t elevate sufficient cash to journey to Washington, D.C. — to protest a GOP well being care invoice that included proposed cuts to Medicaid.
“I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican, however I’m a father,” (*1*).
