Pouting about not getting picked by Taylor Swift, taking on The Terminator, and telling George Clooney to go back to TV. Donald Trump has gotten into word wars with countless celebrities, but there are those that seem to annoy him more than others.
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00:00Pouting about not getting picked by Taylor Swift, taking on the Terminator, and telling
00:04George Clooney to go back to TV.
00:07Donald Trump has gotten into word wars with countless celebrities, but there are those
00:11that seem to annoy him more than others.
00:14Taylor Swift, one of the biggest names in entertainment, famously stays out of politics
00:18for the most part.
00:19But she stepped up to declare support for Kamala Harris.
00:21Swift explained that her drive to publicly support Harris first arose when she saw Donald
00:25Trump post AI-generated images of Swift on his Truth Social page, artificially celebrating
00:31her support.
00:32She offered words of encouragement to Harris, earning the wrath of Trump and his supporters.
00:36Trump's initial response to Swift's endorsement was relatively restrained.
00:39On Fox & Friends, he played off Swift's words by comparing her to various other women.
00:44Trump voiced his preference for Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes' wife, Brittany,
00:48and Britney Spears.
00:49I actually like Mrs. Mahomes much better, if you want to know the truth.
00:54She's a big Trump fan."
00:56He suggested that Taylor's liberal views would affect her music sales before taking the gloves
01:00off in a later online statement.
01:02Refusing to mince words, Trump took to Truth Social again to very presidentially state,
01:07I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT, in all caps with an exclamation point.
01:11Trump's uncomplicated vitriol against Swift led the Harris campaign to release a statement
01:16taunting him with the names of various Taylor Swift songs.
01:19Robert De Niro throws jabs at Trump practically every time he gets his hands on a microphone.
01:24He's so f-----g stupid."
01:27Whether he's at a film festival or a campaign event, De Niro hates Trump's guts and can't
01:31wait to talk about it.
01:33In May 2024, De Niro spoke in favor of Joe Biden while standing outside a New York courthouse,
01:38where Trump was being tried for falsifying business records.
01:42Trump took exception to De Niro's consistent attacks, issuing retaliations via his Truth
01:46Social account.
01:47Trump issued posts in which he called De Niro a wacko former actor, and he also claimed
01:52that De Niro represents the far left, and that his political affiliation negatively
01:56impacted his work as an actor, and even the artistic value of his films.
02:00For some unknown reason, Trump concluded the post with a reference to a Simon & Garfunkel
02:04song prominently featured in the Dustin Hoffman classic, The Graduate.
02:09Until October 2024, Rihanna spent around three years as the most financially successful musical
02:14of all time, largely thanks to her beauty brand, as well as being the face of several
02:18other brands.
02:19All that power and advertising savvy grants the 36-year-old artist a tremendous amount
02:24of influence, which is part of what irked Trump so much when she joined the long list
02:28of musicians demanding he keep their songs away from his rallies.
02:32Rihanna's music publisher won a 2018 legal battle to exclude Trump from the artist's
02:36list of acceptable political entities, which kicked off a long battle that is very much
02:41still in motion.
02:42Rihanna spray-painted a hateful message toward Trump in 2020, prompting some Republicans
02:47to insist she shouldn't be allowed to play the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.
02:51Trump posted on Truth Social, stating,
02:52"...without her stylist, she'd be nothing.
02:55Bad everything.
02:56And no talent."
02:57When that halftime show finally came, Trump blasted her again, characterizing the performance
03:01as the worst in the game's history, while also dissing her stylist.
03:05Arnold Schwarzenegger will always be a larger-than-life icon for his roles in classics like The Terminator
03:10and Total Recall.
03:12The Californians might know him best as their GOP governor from 2003 to 2011.
03:16Despite his party affiliation, Schwarzenegger's relationship with Trump soured over the years.
03:20The actor famously replaced Trump on The Apprentice in 2015, shortly before he refused to support
03:26Trump's run for office.
03:27He issued statements against Trump that called for his fellow Republicans to choose their
03:30nation over their party, which evolved into a constant critique of Trump's controversial
03:35policies, earning Trump's ire.
03:37Trump additionally limited himself to attacking Schwarzenegger's performance on the new Celebrity
03:41Apprentice and the resulting ratings.
03:43He took time out of a prayer breakfast to give the show's creator some sass about replacing
03:47him with a movie star, then offered a prayer to Schwarzenegger for his ailing TV audience.
03:52Shortly thereafter, Trump took to Twitter to add additional insults to his reality show
03:56replacement, tweeting negatively about Schwarzenegger's performance on the show as well as his time
04:00as governor.
04:01Schwarzenegger went on to support the Harris campaign in 2024, and continued to maintain
04:06his distaste for the presumptive president-elect.
04:09Every time you talk about America, you're right when you say that our leadership in
04:13Washington is a little bit backwards."
04:15Longtime movie star George Clooney has never shied away from politics.
04:19Clooney was a vocal supporter and a close personal friend of former President Barack
04:22Obama, keeping the actor firmly on the left side of the political divide.
04:25Clooney's fundraising efforts for Obama earned him some general pull in the Democratic Party,
04:30which he used to ask Joe Biden to step down from the 2024 race.
04:34In July 2024, Clooney wrote an op-ed for The New York Times, practically begging Biden
04:39to throw in the towel.
04:40He was as kind as he could be as he asked Biden to quit, but that call for a new candidate
04:44enraged Trump, who took to Truth Social to accuse Clooney of stabbing Biden in the back.
04:49Trump encouraged Clooney to, quote, get out of politics and go back to television, and
04:53bizarrely claimed that movies didn't work for the actor.
04:56Oddly enough, Trump alternated between attacking Clooney and Biden.
04:59The man Clooney just encouraged to leave the race.
05:02Alec Baldwin immediately rocketed to the top of Trump's Hollywood hit list when he started
05:06his long-running role impersonating the president on Saturday Night Live.
05:10What is even a Putin?
05:12I'm running for story, you need anything?
05:15I'm good, thanks, sweetie.
05:18There was no bigger critic of Baldwin's impression than Trump himself, who regularly attacked
05:22the show, the network, and the performers as unfair political operatives.
05:26In 2021, Trump launched his most vicious attack against Baldwin, while the actor was facing
05:31the consequences of an on-set shooting that killed a director of photography.
05:35Trump capitalized on that nightmarish situation while speaking on Chris Stegall's podcast,
05:40characterizing Baldwin as an unhinged individual and distinctly implying that the actor had
05:45something to do with the shooting.
05:46He even went so far as to suggest that Baldwin loaded the prop gun.
05:50Many interpreted the statements as Trump's long-awaited revenge for the SNL impression.
05:55Meryl Streep is known for acting at the highest levels, and has a truckload of awards to prove
05:59it.
06:01In 2015, for the Academy of Film Awards, Streep received the National Medal of Arts and the
06:04Presidential Medal of Freedom from then-President Barack Obama.
06:07However, her relationship with the next president was far less cordial.
06:10In 2015, as she was taking home yet another shiny statue, this time the Lifetime Achievement
06:15Award from the Golden Globes, Streep made comments about Trump's performance on the
06:19campaign trail.
06:20Though she didn't mention his name, she critiqued his alleged impression of journalist Serge
06:24Kovalevsky and pushed back against the powerful acting as bullies.
06:28Streep tweeted his response, calling Streep, quote, "...one of the most overrated actresses
06:31in Hollywood."
06:32He accused her of unfairly attacking him without knowing him and characterized her as, quote,
06:36a Hillary Flunky who lost big, despite her delivering her comments as part of an acceptance
06:41speech.
06:43Sacha Baron Cohen has a decent reputation as an actor and a legendary reputation as
06:47an on-camera prankster.
06:48As Ali G, and later as Borat, Bruno, and several other familiar fixtures, Cohen would conduct
06:54interviews in various settings with people who don't realize they're being messed with.
06:58In 2003, Ali G roped Donald Trump into one of his comedic scenes, pitching him a fake
07:02product to see how he'd react on camera.
07:05He walked out during the filming, cutting the routine short, and later reportedly talked
07:08to The New York Times journalist Maureen Dowd, used a slur to describe Cohen, and stated,
07:13quote, "...it was a total con job."
07:14Trump would later attack Cohen for another prank.
07:17As part of Cohen's second Borat film, the film crew captured Trump ally Rudy Giuliani
07:21in a compromising position during an interview with a young lady.
07:24She's 15.
07:25She's too old for you.
07:26Why are you threatening me?
07:27She's my daughter.
07:28Please, take me instead."
07:30Voice of America White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman tweeted out Trump's response
07:34to the public release of the footage.
07:36Trump called him a, quote, phony guy, stated that he wasn't funny, and accused him of being,
07:40quote, a creep.
07:42Marshawn, Beast Mode Lynch is one of the most iconic football players in the league.
07:45Lynch temporarily retired in 2016, but he returned for several years after one season
07:50off, all while dealing with off-the-field legal issues.
07:52In 2017, he sat during the national anthem as part of a widespread protest against racism
07:57and police brutality, which saw many athletes kneeling as the anthem was played.
08:01It so happened that those protesting athletes were among Trump's favorite targets at the
08:05time.
08:06In a heated early morning tweet, Trump called Lynch out for standing for the Mexican anthem
08:09while kneeling for the American tune, considering his actions, quote, great disrespect.
08:14Trump suggested that protest actions like his were negatively affecting the NFL's ratings,
08:18and that the league should suspend him for the remainder of the season.
08:22Mark Cuban is certainly one of the richest men to have beef with Donald Trump.
08:25The Shark Tank star made $5.7 billion from the 1997 sale of Broadcast.com to Yahoo during
08:31the dot-com bubble, and as of late 2024, holds an estimated net worth of around the same
08:36amount.
08:37Cuban's history with Trump is a mixed bag.
08:39He initially shared barbs with the mogul in 2004, when they both starred on reality shows.
08:43When Trump began his run for office in 2015, Cuban supported him, but he later jumped ship
08:48in favor of the Clinton campaign in 2016.
08:51During his time in office, Trump regularly attacked Cuban, labeling him a failure and
08:55suggesting he couldn't mount a similar campaign.
08:58By 2024, Cuban was on the campaign trail for Kamala Harris, leading Trump to launch constant
09:03social media attacks.
09:04In a post on Truth Social, Trump suggested that Cuban's support for the Democratic candidate
09:08originated from Trump's unwillingness to take his calls.
09:12Ariana Huffington is known as a liberal darling, but her political alignment has shifted over
09:16the years.
09:17Huffington started her journalism career writing for The National Review, one of the more conservative
09:20voices in the medium.
09:22In 1996, she covered the election for Comedy Central, providing a right-wing voice to rival
09:27Al Franken.
09:28Huffington ran for governor of California as an Independent in 2003, but after she lost,
09:33she co-founded The Huffington Post, with Andrew Breitbart and others, to compete with a Drudge
09:38Report.
09:39Despite Huffington's conservative bona fides, Trump consistently attacked her for her liberal
09:43views.
09:44Trump hurled extremely personal attacks at Huffington as far back as 2012.
09:47He took to Twitter to state that Huffington was, quote, unattractive both inside and out,
09:51and to celebrate her former husband, openly bisexual conservative politician Michael Huffington,
09:55for divorcing her many years earlier.
09:57He followed those insults with another tweet, claiming that those who accused him of cruelty
10:02would agree with him if they knew Huffington.
10:04That post came with a threat, promising more hate to come.
10:07Trump would go on to regularly attack Huffington and her outlet, accusing it of illegitimacy
10:11and bias.
10:12Angela Merkel
10:13Angela Merkel was one of the longest-serving chancellors of Germany, leading the nation
10:16from 2005 to 2021.
10:18She was the first woman to be elected chancellor, breaking new ground before her term even began,
10:23and saw four American presidents come and go during her time in office.
10:27In 2020, CNN uncovered several classified phone calls between Trump and world leaders.
10:31He allegedly insulted Merkel's intelligence during a call, a bout of verbal abuse that
10:36reportedly fits into a trend of several other attacks on Allied leaders.
10:40CNN officials stated that Trump accused Merkel of being somehow owned by Russian interests,
10:44in one of several vicious diatribes.
10:47They even claimed that Merkel deliberately reduced the number of advisers around to hear
10:50her phone conversations with Trump, hiding their, quote, problematic contents.
10:55In more specific critiques, Trump attacked Merkel's immigration policies in a German
10:59newspaper, claiming to have respect for her while calling out her, quote, catastrophic
11:04mistake.