The great, the unhealthy, and the ‘unusually engaging’: Donald Trump’s superstar obsessions

Celebrities hanging round with US presidents isn’t a brand new phenomenon — however with regards to hating on fellow celebrities nobody does it fairly like former president Donald Trump.

Different presidents merely befriended celebs — Invoice Clinton famously performed his saxophone for Arsenio Corridor and has been photographed with quite a few A-listers, together with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Charlize Theron, amongst others, each throughout and after his presidency.

Barack Obama’s inauguration was attended by Jay Z, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, and Magic Johnson, and former First Woman Michelle Obama’s fiftieth birthday celebration was held on Oprah Winfrey’s property.

However Trump has been beginning fights and insulting different well-known folks for years — right here’s some who’ve caught his consideration and wrath.

Alec Baldwin

Trump has lengthy despised Alec Baldwin, probably as a result of Baldwin is well-known for lampooning the previous president by portraying him on Saturday Evening Reside. He even received an Emmy for his skewering efficiency.

In 2018, Trump roasted Baldwin when he prompt his profession was “dying” and complained that his impersonation was “agony.”

“Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre profession was saved by his horrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says taking part in me was agony,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Alec, it was agony for individuals who have been pressured to observe. Deliver again Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far higher expertise!”

He additionally weighed in on Baldwin’s authorized troubles following the deadly capturing of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Baldwin-produced western, Rust in 2021.

“He’s a troubled man,” Trump mentioned of Baldwin throughout an interview on conservative radio host Chris Stigall’s podcast in 2021. “There’s one thing unsuitable with him. I’ve watched him for years. He will get into fistfights with reporters … He’s a cuckoo-bird. He’s a nutjob. And normally, when there’s someone like that, you already know, in my view, he had one thing to do with it.”

Robert De Niro

The Goodfellas and On line casino star has criticized Trump for years, a truth which has not been misplaced on the previous president.

“Mendacity has change into simply one other instrument within the charlatan’s arsenal,” De Niro mentioned in the course of the Gotham Awards ceremony in December. “The previous president lied to us greater than 30,000 occasions throughout his 4 years in workplace, and he’s maintaining the tempo in his present marketing campaign of retribution. However with all his lies, he can’t cover his soul.”

Trump was not happy.

“De Niro ought to deal with his life, which is a multitude, fairly than the lives of others. He has change into a complete loser, because the World watches, waits, and laughs!” Trump wrote in a Reality Social submit after the speech. “He has change into unwatchable each in films, and with the FOOLS that destroyed the Academy Awards, bringing them from one of many high exhibits within the Nation to a Low Rated afterthought.”

Earlier this 12 months, De Niro held a protest exterior the courthouse the place Trump’s New York hush cash trial was going down and known as the previous president a “monster.”

Trump shot again, calling De Niro “small” and a “wacko.”

“Robert, whose films, artistry, and model have gone WAY DOWN IN VALUE since he entered the political area on the request of Crooked Joe Biden, seemed so pathetic and unhappy on the market. The place have you ever gone Joe DiMaggio!!!” the previous president wrote on Reality Social.

Taylor Swift

Trump’s relationship with the Eras tour megastar isn’t practically as contentious as his relationship with De Niro and Baldwin.

Swift has expressed usually progressive political beliefs, saying in interviews that she is pro-choice and is in opposition to any type of gender or sexual orientation discrimination. In a 2019 interview with The Guardian, she shared her ideas on Trump’s presidency, calling it an “autocracy.”

Following Trump’s “when the looting begins the capturing begins” feedback after the homicide of George Floyd, Swift laid into the previous president, telling him on X that “we are going to vote you out in November.”

“After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your whole presidency, you’ve the nerve to feign ethical superiority earlier than threatening violence? ‘When the looting begins the capturing begins’??? We are going to vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump,” she wrote.

Two years later, Trump commented on Swift, however totally on how scorching he thinks she is.

“I feel she’s lovely – very lovely! I discover her very lovely. I feel she’s liberal. She in all probability doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very gifted,” Trump reportedly mentioned, in response to Ramin Setoodeh’s new guide, Apprentice in Wonderland. “I feel she’s very lovely, truly – unusually lovely!”

He additionally appeared genuinely shocked that Swift was a “liberal.”

“She is liberal, or is that simply an act?” he requested Setoodeh in 2023. “She’s legitimately liberal? It’s not an act? It surprises me {that a} nation star may be profitable being liberal.”

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

4 years earlier than Donald Trump grew to become president, he spent an uncommon period of time on Twitter giving his perspective on the high-profile superstar breakup of Twilight co-stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

“Robert Pattinson shouldn’t take again Kristen Stewart,” Trump wrote on the time. “[Stewart] cheated on him like a canine and can do it once more — simply watch. He can do significantly better!”

On the time, Stewart had cheated on Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders, who helmed Snow White and the Huntsman, which featured the actress.

“A lot of response to my Pattinson/Kristen Stewart reunion. She’s going to cheat again–100 certain–am I ever unsuitable?,” Trump wrote. “So many tweets & tales on Stewart/Pattinson Look, it would not matter– the connection won’t ever be the identical. It’s completely damaged.”

He insisted on the time that “everybody is aware of I’m proper” that Pattinson ought to dump Stewart, and that “in a few years [Pattinson] will thank me.”

Trump even provided Pattinson an invitation to that 12 months’s Miss Universe contest, and later praised his have a look at a Twilight collection premier.

“Robert Pattinson is placing on a great face for the discharge of Twilight. He took my recommendation on Kristen Stewart…I hope!” Trump wrote.

Kim and Khloe Kardashian

In 2016, simply earlier than the presidential election, the Huffington Publish ran a narrative citing nameless staffers on Trump’s Movie star Apprentice who claimed that he had regularly disparaged contestant Khloe Kardashian on set.

He reportedly known as her a “fats piglet” and complained that his manufacturing could not get the “scorching one,” referring to Kim Kardashian.

“What is that this? We will’t even get the recent one?” he allegedly mentioned. “Why did we get the ugly Kardashian?’”

Regardless of his alleged remarks about her sister, Kim Kardashian made inroads with Trump in 2018 regarding jail reform, and managed to strain him to commute the sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old girl given life in jail with out parole for a nonviolent drug offense.

Kim even praised a few of Trump’s jail reforms throughout his 2020 presidential marketing campaign. However he soured on the fact TV star after she celebrated Joe Biden’s victory over him within the 2020, in response to Setoodeh.

“I used to be disenchanted in Kim,” he reportedly instructed the creator. “However with Kim, I did quite a lot of jail reform that she couldn’t get finished with anybody else. Then, to be able to be accepted by Hollywood, she didn’t endorse me.”

Trump then corrected himself and mentioned that “somebody” instructed him Kim didn’t endorse him.

Kanye West

There’s arguably no superstar that has introduced extra bother to Trump than West, regardless that West was a supporter.

Trump instructed Further host Mario Lopez in 2014 that he knew each West and Kim Kardashian “very nicely” and wished them nicely of their new marriage.

In 2020, after West introduced he deliberate to run for president, Trump instructed Rolling Stone that the rapper had mentioned “very good issues about me prior to now…extraordinarily constructive issues,” and that he hoped to run in opposition to him someday.

West made an unsuccesful try at working in 2020, failing to gather sufficient signatures to get on state ballots.

In 2016, West instructed a crowd in San Jose that if he had voted, he would have voted for Trump.

West praised Trump for a lot of his presidency, earning a tweet from the previous president at one level saying “thanks Kanye, very cool!”

“Thanks to Kanye West and the truth that he’s prepared to inform the TRUTH,” Trump tweeted after Kanye praised him in a 2018 Jimmy Kimmel Reside! episode. “One new and nice FACT – African American unemployment is the bottom ever recorded within the historical past of our Nation. So honored by this. Thanks Kanye in your assist. It’s making a giant distinction!”

In 2022, following his divorce from Kim Kardashian, West took a weird flip and commenced making overtly anti-semitic remarks and spending time with right-wing provocateur Candace Owens and white supremacist podcaster Nick Fuentes.

As public approval turned laborious in opposition to West, he nonetheless maintained his assist for Trump, and attended a dinner with the previous president with Fuentes in tow.

Trump was blasted within the press for eating with an outspoken white supremacist and Holocaust denier, forcing him to distance himself from the occasion, insisting on the time that he didn’t know who Fuentes was. He additionally was pressured to lastly denounce his greatest fan, West.

Trump claimed that he was merely making an attempt to assist West, who he known as a “significantly troubled man,” and that the company West introduced — Fuentes, particularly — weren’t invited to the dinner.

A month later, West appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars present in a face-obscuring black masks and mentioned he “appreciated” Adolf Hitler.