Rod Stewart can’t call Donald Trump his friend.
The “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” singer, who has palled around with the president on many occasions as his neighbor in Florida, recently told Radio Times that there’s one policy decision that he cannot abide.
When asked if he still considers the 47th president a friend, Stewart responded, “No, I can’t any more. As long as he’s selling arms to the Israelis, and he still is. How’s that war ever gonna stop?”
The “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” musician sharply condemned Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s violent campaign in Gaza. “Someone’s gotta do something,” Stewart said. “What Netanyahu is doing to the Palestinians is exactly what happened to the Jews. It’s annihilation, and that’s all he wants to do — get rid of them all. I don’t know how they sleep at night.”
Stewart explained that his home in Palm Beach, Fla., is within spitting distance of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. “I live literally half a mile away,” the singer said. “We’re both on the beach. I used to go to his Christmas parties. He’s always been a bit of a man’s man. I liked him for that.”
However, Stewart noted that some of Trump’s behavior alarmed him. “He didn’t, as far as I’m concerned, treat women very well,” he said. “But since he became president, he became another guy. Somebody I didn’t know.”
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Stewart previously mocked Trump during a 2024 concert in Las Vegas, displaying four photos of his onetime chum with increasingly orange complexions and a message on screen: “I didn’t know he was Orange until a number of years ago, when he happened to turn Orange. I respect either one but he obviously doesn’t because all of a sudden he made a turn and he went – he became an Orange person. I think somebody should look into that.”
The “orange” joke came in response to Trump falsely claiming that Kamala Harris “became Black” using similar phrasing.
In the Radio Times interview, Stewart said the gag didn’t go over well with his audience. “I had a little joke about him when he had all the tan, you know, the Orange Man. And: ‘Boooo!'”
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After being knighted by Prince William in 2016, Stewart said he didn’t think Trump was cut out for the Oval Office. “Although he’s sort of a friend of mine, I don’t think he’s presidential,” he said, according to the Daily Mail. “I don’t think he’s made to be a president.”
After the United States exited the Paris Agreement — the international agreement designed to help curb climate change — Stewart had harsher words for the president.
“That prick in the White House, pulling out of the Paris Accord is terrible,” the singer said on the How to Wow podcast in 2020. “I think the good Lord’s intent on wiping us all out because we’ve spoiled the Earth. We’ve spoiled it. I think it’s too late to turn back now.”