Rod Stewart reveals why he not considers Donald Trump a pal

Rod Stewart can't name Donald Trump his pal.

The "Do Ya Suppose I'm Attractive" singer, who has palled round with the president on many events as his neighbor in Florida, lately told Radio Times that there's one coverage choice that he can not abide.

When requested if he nonetheless considers the forty seventh president a pal, Stewart responded, "No, I can't any extra. So long as he's promoting arms to the Israelis, and he nonetheless is. How's that warfare ever gonna cease?"

The "I Don't Wish to Speak About It" musician sharply condemned Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu's violent marketing campaign in Gaza. "Somebody's gotta do one thing," Stewart mentioned. "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."

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Stewart defined that his dwelling in Palm Seaside, Fla., is inside spitting distance of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. "I reside actually half a mile away," the singer mentioned. "We're each on the seaside. I used to go to his Christmas events. He's at all times been a little bit of a person's man. I preferred him for that."

Nonetheless, Stewart famous that a few of Trump's conduct alarmed him. "He didn't, so far as I'm involved, deal with girls very nicely," he mentioned. "However since he turned president, he turned one other man. Someone I didn't know."

Stewart beforehand mocked Trump throughout a 2024 live performance in Las Vegas, displaying 4 images of his onetime chum with more and more orange complexions and a message on display: "I didn't know he was Orange till a lot of years in the past, when he occurred to show Orange. I respect both one however he clearly doesn't as a result of abruptly he made a flip and he went – he turned an Orange individual. I believe any individual ought to look into that."

The "orange" joke got here in response to Trump falsely claiming that Kamala Harris "turned Black" utilizing related phrasing.

Within the Radio Occasions interview, Stewart mentioned the gag didn't go over nicely along with his viewers. "I had just a little joke about him when he had all of the tan, you realize, the Orange Man. And: 'Boooo!'"

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After being knighted by Prince William in 2016, Stewart mentioned he didn't suppose Trump was reduce out for the Oval Workplace. "Though he's kind of a pal of mine, I don't suppose he's presidential," he mentioned, according to the Daily Mail. "I don't suppose he's made to be a president."

After the US exited the Paris Settlement — the worldwide settlement designed to assist curb local weather change — Stewart had harsher phrases for the president.

"That prick within the White Home, pulling out of the Paris Accord is horrible," the singer said on the How to Wow podcast in 2020. "I believe the nice Lord's intent on wiping us all out as a result of we've spoiled the Earth. We've spoiled it. I believe it's too late to show again now."

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