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 more than 55,000 Palestinians since October 2023 based on the Gaza Well being 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 pal.
“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 must 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 desires to do — eliminate all of them.”
“I don’t know the way 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 suppose 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 steadily 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 informed Radio Instances. “He’s at all times been a little bit of a person’s man. I favored him for that. However he didn’t, so far as I’m involved, deal with girls very effectively. However since he grew to become president, he grew to become one other man.”
“Any person I didn’t know,” he mirrored.
The singer mocked Trump final 12 months during a Las Vegas concert forward of the 2024 election for “turning orange,” as Trump made the racist claim that then-Democratic nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris, “occurred to show Black” earlier than saying her run.
Stewart is a model railway enthusiast at residence, but additionally politically energetic in his spare time.
In 2017, he coated all mandatory bills for a group of children 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,” he said at the time.