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Celebrities react to Donald Trump’s victory on social media

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Celebrities react to Donald Trump’s victory on social media

Some celebrities then reacted in despair Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election Tuesday night, recalling the outpouring of fear that followed his first victory in 2016.

A legion of stars came out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, especially in the final stages before Election Day, including Beyoncé, Cardi B, Oprah Winfrey, Dick Van Dyke, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera. Even Rihanna returned to her social media roots, roasting those who fired back after she joked about sneaking into the polls to vote. But the A-list enthusiasm disappeared overnight as it became clearer that Trump would be elected.

“I hate you all so much,” Cardi B captioned her Instagram Story, in which she sported a dejected facial expression as she rested her face in her palm. In a now-deleted X post, she wrote: “This is why some of your states get hurricanes.” The rapper had just campaigned with Harris in Milwaukee on Friday.

Bette Midler shared a quote in a now-deleted tweet from the late journalist HL Mencken on X as the election results rolled in.

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters, he does not face sensible men; he is confronted with a band of men whose chief distinguishing feature is their complete inability to weigh ideas, or to understand even the most basic ones – men whose entire thinking is in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is the fear is for fear. what they cannot understand,” the quote reads. “…On some great and glorious day, the ordinary people of the country will finally realize their heart’s desire, and the White House will be decorated by a complete idiot.”

“AmeriKKKa is showing up tonight. Just showing,” wrote Yvette Nicole Brown.

Filmmaker and producer Adam McKay lashed out at the Democratic Party as Trump’s victory was imminent: “Who would have guessed that he had lied about Biden’s cognitive health for two years, refused to hold an open convention for a new nominee, never mentioned public health care and embraced fracking, wouldn’t the Cheneys and years of slaughtering children in Gaza be a winning strategy?”

Some famous figures mourned what a second Trump term would mean for reproductive rights.

Lili Reinhart, known for her role as Betty in “Riverdale,” spoke out in support of women like E. Jean Carroll and Cathy Heller, who are among more than a dozen women who have accused Trump of sexual assault or misconduct. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, but he was found liable for sexually assaulting and defaming Carroll and was ordered to pay $5 million and more than $83 million in the writer’s two lawsuits against him.

“I cannot fathom the feelings of the women who came forward about their sexual assault by Trump. Seeing millions of people voting for their abuser,” Reinhart wrote in an X-post. “My heart absolutely breaks for these women. I believe you, and I’m so sorry.”

Christina Applegate said in an X post that her child was “sobbing because her rights as a woman could be taken away.” Applegate, who announced her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2021, also expressed her fear and disappointment about the future of disability rights. “Please unfollow me if you voted against women’s rights. Against the rights of the disabled. Yes that. Unfollow me because what you did is unreal. You don’t want these kinds of followers. So yes. Done,” she said in another X post, promising that Wednesday would be the last day before closing her social media account.

Conservative figures who had supported Trump, on the other hand, were jubilant. Piers Morgan congratulated Trump on “the greatest comeback in political history” on .”