Rod Stewart says he is now not buddies with former neighbour Donald Trump over help of Israel
Rod Stewart isn’t “a fantastic fan” of his former neighbour Donald Trump over the US President’s continued funding and help of Israel.
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Chatting with the Radio Times forward of his Legends slot at Glastonbury subsequent week, Stewart revealed that he was once shut with Trump, not simply when it comes to friendship, however in proximity.
“I’m not a fantastic fan of Trump. I knew him very, very nicely. I used to go to his home. I reside actually half a mile away,” mentioned Stewart, who owns a house in Florida. “We’re each on the seaside. I used to go to his Christmas events. 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 girls very nicely.”
Stewart continued, suggesting that Trump’s presidencies have modified him, “Since he grew to become President, he grew to become one other man. Any person I didn’t know.”
When requested if would ever rethink his stance on severing his friendship with Trump, the musician mentioned the President’s position within the ongoing genocide in Gaza makes a possible reconnection troublesome: “No, I can’t anymore. So long as he’s promoting arms to the Israelis — and he nonetheless is. How’s that battle ever gonna cease?”
Stewart went on to say it isn’t simply the US that should cease supporting Israel: “And we [the UK] ought to cease promoting them as nicely… What [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] 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 understand how they sleep at evening.”
Elsewhere throughout his chat with Radio Occasions, Rod Stewart commented on his upcoming Legends slot efficiency at Glastonbury, explaining that organisers had initially given him a shorter set – a call he subsequently challenged.
“It’s troublesome as a result of they solely gave me an hour-and-a-quarter slot. So I begged them: can I do one other quarter-hour? As a result of normally I play for 2 hours,” Stewart instructed the publication. “It implies that there’s lots of songs that individuals love that I received’t have the ability to play – and I’ve acquired three visitors approaching,” mentioned Stewart. Followers have been involved about whether or not Stewart will make it to Glastonbury 2025, after he cancelled a run of reveals in Las Vegas lately. In an replace on June 7, the singer mentioned he was recovering from a bout of flu.
In different information, the climate forecast for this 12 months’s Glastonbury has now come into vary. Elsewhere, organisers have shared the complete line-up, instances and stage splits, and the newly up to date web site map.
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