‘She's Disgusting': Trump Slams Madonna for Rally Comments Talking about ‘Blowing Up' White House
The singer said her comments during the march were taken out of context
By Eric L. Hinton ••
Madonna joined the Women’s March in Washington, DC. She spoke about love. “It seems as though we had all slipped into a false sense of comfort. That justice would prevail and that good would win in the end,” Madonna said. “Good did not win this election. But good will win in the end.”
Donald Trump went after pop star Madonna Thursday night in an interview with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity, calling the star "disgusting" for controversial comments she made at last weekend's Women's March in Washington D.C.
"Honestly, she's disgusting. I think she hurt herself very badly. I think she hurt that whole cause."
Trump echoed remarks made earlier in the week by Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said Madonna should be jailed for telling a crowd she had "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House."
Madonna followed that up by saying, "But I know that this won't change anything. We cannot fall into despair." Instead, Madonna called for a "revolution of love."
But the followup fell on deaf ears for Gingrich who, interviewed on Fox News about the singer's comments, compared her to violent protesters who demonstrated during Donald Trump's inauguration. More than 200 people were arrested in the window-smashing unrest during Inauguration Day; the Women's March on Washington yielded zero arrests.
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Protesters make their way through the streets of London during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017 in London, England.
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Demonstrators make their way through the streets of London during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017 in London, England.
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Some 30 people joined the global Women's March from Antarctica. Linda Zunas tweeted photos of the march from the seventh continent, with demonstrators holding signs reading "Penguins March for Peace" from Paradise Bay, Antarctica, on Jan. 21, 2016.
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Demonstrators carrying banners and placards take part in a Women's March rally next to the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.
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Demonstrators make their way during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Thousands of people march on 42nd street during the Women's March on January 21, 2017 in New York City. The Midtown Manhattan event was one of many nationwide that came a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
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Activists hold a banner that reads "Women's March against Fascism" during the Women's March rally in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.
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Thousands of people march up Queen Street on Jan. 21, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. The marches in New Zealand were organized to show solidarity with those marching on Washington D.C. and around the world.
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A demonstrator participates in a Women's March Saturday Jan. 21, 2017 in Philadelphia.
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Activists participate in the Women's March rally in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.
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Demonstrators hold placards during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv against President Donald Trump, mirroring worldwide demonstrations to mark his first full day in office, on Jan. 21, 2017.
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Demonstrators chant as they arrive in Trafalgar Square during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017 in London, England.
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Demonstrators fill the streets of downtown Los Angeles as they gather for the Women's March Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.
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Demonstrators take part in the Melbourne women's rights rally on Jan. 21, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Demonstrators make their way from the iamsterdam statue in front of the Rijksmuseum towards US Consulate during the Women's March held at Museumplein on Jan. 21, 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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A marcher holds a sign during the women's march rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.
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Crowds gather for The Women's March on Main covered by The IMDb Studio during The 2017 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 21, 2017 in Park City, Utah.
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A woman wearing a USA flag as her headscarf attends a rally for women's rights and freedom in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington in front of Brandenburger Tor on Jan. 21, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
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TV and radio host Alison Mau joins thousands of people marching up Queen Street on Jan. 21, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. The marches in New Zealand were organized to show solidarity with those marching on Washington D.C. and around the world in defense of women's rights and human rights.
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A young girl holds a "women's rights are human rights" sign at Roadhouse BBQ restaurant where many of the Bangkok Women's March participants gathered on Jan. 21, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Demonstrators take part in the Melbourne rally to protest against the Trump Inauguration on Jan. 21, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. The marches in Australia were organized to show solidarity with those marching on Washington D.C. and around the world.
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Demonstrators participate in the March In Defense Of Women's Rights outside of the Music Farm on Jan. 21, 2017, in Columbia, South Carolina. The event was one of hundreds of rallies and marches in more than 20 different countries inspired by the Women's March in the nation's capital.
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Demonstrators join the march for women's rights in Brussels, Belgium.
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Hundreds of thousands of people assemble on the National Mall during the Women's March on Washington Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
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Kate Weigel, right, of Brewer, Massachusetts, cheers as participants start marching during a women's march in New York, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.
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Jennifer Beals, Chelsea Handler and Charlize Theron participates in the Women's March on Main Street Park City on Jan. 21, 2017 in Park City, Utah.
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Cher arrives for the Women's March on Washington on Independence Ave. on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington.
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Demonstrators gathered in Des Moines, Iowa, in solidarity with the hundreds of sister marches happening across the United States on Jan. 21, 2017.
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Women march from Syntagma Square to the U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece, during the Women's March against the new U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greece, Jan. 21, 2017.
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Demonstrators gather on Boston Common during the Boston Women's March for America on Jan. 21, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Protesters listen to speeches in Trafalgar Square, London, after taking part in a march to promote women's rights in the wake of the US election result on Jan. 21, 2017.
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Protesters cheer at the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. embassy on Jan. 21, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Simultaneous demonstrations were staged, mainly by women, in many different countries.
"She is parallel to the young fascist who ran around town breaking windows, all of whom should be given a maximum sentence," Gingrich said. "I had friends who couldn't leave their hotel because the demonstrators had broken through the police line and were bottling up the people in the hotel. I had other friends who were hassled trying to get to the inaugural address. What you have is an emerging left wing fascism. She's part of it and I think we have to prepare to protect ourselves."
Gingrich added, "The truth is, she ought to be arrested for saying she has thought about blowing up the White House."
Madonna took to Instagram Sunday saying her comments had been taken out of context.
"I am not a violent person, I do not promote violence and it's important people hear and understand my speech in it's entirety rather than one phrase taken wildly out of context," she wrote. "I spoke in metaphor and I shared two ways of looking at things — one was to be hopeful, and one was to feel anger and outrage, which I have personally felt. However, I know that acting out of anger doesn’t solve anything."
