Grammy-winning singer Rod Stewart says he can’t be associates with President Donald Trump anymore, citing his administration’s ongoing assist for the brutal Israeli navy marketing campaign in Gaza that has killed greater than 55,000 Palestinians since October 2023 in line with the Gaza Well being Ministry.
Stewart lately sat down for an interview with Radio Occasions 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 informed the outlet. “So long as he’s promoting arms to the Israelis — and he nonetheless is. How’s that warfare ever gonna cease? And we must always cease promoting them as nicely. 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 desires to do — do away with all of them.”
“I don’t understand how they sleep at night time,” Stewart added.
This isn’t the primary time Stewart has criticized Trump. The rock icon reportedly stated 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 yr.
Stewart used to regularly socialize with the previous actual property tycoon, nonetheless. 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 nicely.”
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“I used to go to his Christmas events,” Stewart informed Radio Occasions. “He’s all the time been a little bit of a person’s man. I preferred him for that. However he didn’t, so far as I’m involved, deal with ladies very nicely. However since he turned president, he turned one other man.”
“Any person I didn’t know,” he mirrored.
The singer mocked Trump final yr 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, “occurred to show Black” earlier than saying her run.
Stewart is a mannequin railway fanatic at residence, but in addition politically energetic in his spare time.
In 2017, he coated all essential bills for a bunch of kids 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, however I’m a father,” he stated on the time.