Grammy-winning singer Rod Stewart says he can’t be associates with President Donald Trump anymore, citing his administration’s ongoing help for the brutal Israeli army marketing campaign in Gaza that has killed greater than 55,000 Palestinians since October 2023 in accordance with the Gaza Health Ministry.
Stewart just lately sat down for an interview with Radio Instances to advertise his upcoming set on the Glastonbury Pageant, solely to tear into Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Israeli chief Benjamin Netanyahu — after being requested if he nonetheless considers Trump a buddy.
“No, I can’t any more,” Stewart instructed the outlet. “As long as he’s selling arms to the Israelis — and he still is. How’s that war ever gonna stop? And we should stop selling them as well. What did Starmer say yesterday? They dropped the talks on trade?”
“What fucking difference is that gonna make?” the singer continued. “Someone’s gotta do something. What Netanyahu is doing to the Palestinians is exactly what happened to the Jews. It’s annihilation, and that’s all he wants to do — get rid of them all.”
“I don’t know how they sleep at night,” 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,” referred to as him a “prick” in 2020 for pulling out of the Paris Local weather Accords and ridiculed him onstage final 12 months.
Stewart used to regularly socialize with the previous actual property tycoon, nevertheless. The rock icon defined throughout his interview Tuesday that he lives “literally half a mile” from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — and as soon as “knew him very, very well.”
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“I used to go to his Christmas parties,” Stewart instructed Radio Instances. “He’s always been a bit of a man’s man. I liked him for that. But he didn’t, as far as I’m concerned, treat women very well. But since he became president, he became another guy.”
“Somebody I didn’t know,” he mirrored.
The singer mocked Trump final 12 months throughout a Las Vegas live performance forward of the 2024 election for “turning orange,” as Trump made the racist declare that then-Democratic nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris, “happened to turn Black” earlier than asserting her run.
Stewart is a mannequin railway fanatic at residence, but additionally politically lively in his spare time.
In 2017, he coated all needed bills for a gaggle of youngsters with disabilities — whose dad and mom couldn’t increase 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, but I am a father,” he mentioned on the time.
