{"id":3754,"date":"2025-06-22T00:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3754\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T00:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:19:12","slug":"rod-stewart-reveals-the-1-reason-his-trump-friendship-is-done-i-cant-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3754\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart Reveals The 1 Reason His Trump Friendship Is Done: ‘I Can’t Anymore’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grammy-winning singer Rod Stewart<\/a> says he can\u2019t be friends with President Donald Trump<\/a> anymore, citing his administration\u2019s ongoing support for the brutal Israeli military campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 55,000 Palestinians<\/a> since October 2023 according to the Gaza Health Ministry.<\/p>\n

Stewart recently sat down for an interview with Radio Times to promote his upcoming set at the Glastonbury Festival, only to tear into Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu \u2014 after being asked if he still considers Trump a friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I can\u2019t any more,\u201d Stewart told the outlet<\/a>. \u201cAs long as he\u2019s selling arms to the Israelis \u2014 and he still is. How\u2019s that war ever gonna stop? And we should stop selling them as well. What did Starmer say yesterday? They dropped the talks on trade?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat fucking difference is that gonna make?\u201d the singer continued. \u201cSomeone\u2019s gotta do something. What Netanyahu is doing to the Palestinians is exactly what happened to the Jews. It\u2019s annihilation, and that\u2019s all he wants to do \u2014 get rid of them all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how they sleep at night,\u201d Stewart added.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Stewart has criticized Trump. The rock icon reportedly<\/a> said ahead of the 2016 election that he didn\u2019t think Trump was \u201cpresidential,\u201d called him a \u201cprick\u201d in 2020<\/a> for pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords and ridiculed him onstage last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stewart used to frequently socialize with the former real estate tycoon, however. The rock icon explained during his interview Tuesday that he lives \u201cliterally half a mile\u201d from Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago<\/a> resort in Florida \u2014 and once \u201cknew him very, very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RodRod Stewart, musician Kenny G and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 1998.<\/p>\n

Davidoff Studios Photography\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to go to his Christmas parties,\u201d Stewart told Radio Times. \u201cHe\u2019s always been a bit of a man\u2019s man. I liked him for that. But he didn\u2019t, as far as I\u2019m concerned, treat women very well. But since he became president, he became another guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody I didn\u2019t know,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n

The singer mocked Trump last year during a Las Vegas concert<\/a> ahead of the 2024 election for \u201cturning orange,\u201d as Trump made the racist claim<\/a> that then-Democratic nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a>, \u201chappened to turn Black\u201d before announcing her run.<\/p>\n

Stewart is a model railway enthusiast<\/a> at home, but also politically active in his spare time.<\/p>\n

In 2017, he covered all necessary expenses for a group of children with disabilities<\/a> \u2014 whose parents couldn\u2019t raise enough money to travel to Washington, D.C. \u2014 to protest a GOP health care bill that included proposed cuts to Medicaid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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