Cardi B, Joe Rogan, more stars react to Trump’s win

Former President Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, and celebrities have thoughts.
Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, a stunning comeback for a candidate who was convicted of 34 felony counts and impeached twice, once for inciting an insurrection after he refused to accept his loss in 2020. Many A-list stars came out in full force for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and reacted with shock and disappointment to her defeat, while others reveled in Trump’s historic win.
Podcast host Joe Rogan, who endorsed Trump shortly before Election Day, shared a video of himself exclaiming while watching Trump’s victory speech, with a person heard laughing in the background.
In an Instagram story, Cardi B, who endorsed Harris and appeared at a rally for the vice president, shared a clip of herself watching election coverage with her head in her hand. “I hate yall bad,” the rapper wrote. She later shared a statement addressed to Harris, writing, “I never thought I would see the day that a woman of color would be running for the president of the United States, but you have shown me, showed my daughters and women across the country that anything is possible.”
Viola Davis similarly posted a photo of Harris and thanked her for “loving America’s promise,” adding, “I am and will forever be proud.”
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Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, who endorsed Trump, spoke at the president-elect’s victory rally on Wednesday and thanked “the mighty and powerful” Rogan for his support.
Indie rock singer Ethel Cain shared her disdain for Tuesday’s election results in a lengthy post on her Instagram Stories, writing, “it’s dark and it’s sad but it’s no surprise.”
Cain encouraged her followers to not “give in to the culture of unmitigated hatred and disdain for each other” and instead “turn your frustration to the real world and find a way to help.”
“Find every bit of love in your heart and foster it and lay it on everyone you can,” Cain added. “Vote in your local elections. Take pride and take charge in your local community. It may be said ad nauseum but you truly must become the change you want to see in the world.”
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In an X post, “Don’t Look Up” and “The Big Short” director Adam McKay shared information about how voters can change their party affiliation. “It is time to abandon the Dem Party,” the Oscar winner wrote. “I’m registering Green Party or Working Families. But am open to ideas.”
In response to an X user who asked why people are “not understanding that our democracy is over,” Yvette Nicole Brown said, “I don’t know. Because it is.” In other posts, the “Community” star wrote that “America is done,” and “any hope in this country and what it could be someday, is gone.”
Christina Applegate expressed confusion on X and said her daughter was upset by Trump’s win. “Why? Give me your reasons why?????” the “Dead to Me” star asked. “My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away. Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me.”
Andy Cohen weighed in with a quip about Trump’s false claims that his 2020 election loss was not legitimate. “So the election ISN’T rigged????” the “Watch What Happens Live” host wrote on X.
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Stephen King expressed concern for democracy in his X reaction. “There’s a sign you can see in many shops that sell beautiful but fragile items: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO HOLD, BUT ONCE YOU BREAK IT, THEN IT’S SOLD. You can say the same about democracy,” the author wrote.
Billie Eilish, who endorsed Harris and lent one of her songs to an ad for the Democratic nominee, simply posted on her Instagram story, “It’s a war on women.”
Ariana Grande in a brief message said she is “holding the hand of every person who is feeling the immeasurable heaviness of this outcome today.”
Bette Midler shared a quote stating that the presidency tends to be won by men who are “intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.”
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Sophia Bush sarcastically said voters did a “great job” by giving “the MAGA gang more power” and suggested that racism and misogyny played a role in Harris’ defeat.
“My heart is broken,” she wrote, also saying in another late-night post, “I pray we will be okay in the morning.”
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“I don’t know if black and brown women will recover from this loss in our lifetime,” “Scream” and “Yellowjackets” star Jasmin Savoy Brown said in an Instagram story. “This broke something unnameable. It will pass on to our kids for generations. Genetically, emotionally, psychologically. We will never, ever, be good enough.”
Wendell Pierce reflected on the consequences of the election result and said that the Supreme Court “will be changed for a generation” due to Trump’s win. “I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime,” he argued. “Alito and Thomas will step down and Trump will appoint 40-year-old partisans to the bench. The damage he is about to inflict on our institutions the next 2 years will be irreparable.”
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Lili Reinhart said she “cannot fathom the feeling of the women who came forward about their sexual assault at the hands of Trump” and “seeing millions of people vote for their abuser.” Trump, who was found liable in a civil sex abuse case last year, has denied any allegations of sexual assault.
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“My heart absolutely breaks for these women,” the “Riverdale” actress said. “I believe you, and I am so sorry.”
Jamie Lee Curtis told followers that Trump’s win means a “sure return to a more restrictive, some fear draconian time” and that Harris supporters must “fight for women and our children and their futures and fight against tyranny, one day at a time.”
“The Good Place” star Jameela Jamil in an Instagram comment shared a long list of mistakes she feels Democrats made, arguing that President Joe Biden should have dropped out of the 2024 race earlier and that Harris “missed so many opportunities to address POLICY in far too many interviews and just focused on the fact that she isn’t” Trump.
“IF we even get another chance now that we have ushered a potential autocrat into power … we have a lot more housekeeping to do,” Jamil concluded on her Instagram story.
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Other A-list stars who endorsed Harris, but have not yet publicly reacted to her loss, include Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.
On the opposite side of the political aisle, “Shazam!” star Zachary Levi, who endorsed Trump, said on X he was “so incredibly grateful to, and proud of, every one of you who saw thru all the noise, and chose to vote for” the Republican nominee.
In response to a reply stating that Levi would never work in Hollywood again due to his Trump support, the actor said that his “goal has always been to leave it at some point anyway.”
In an Instagram story, reality TV star Savannah Chrisley shared a video of herself celebrating the result while wearing a Trump sweatshirt. “We did it,” she exclaimed while watching Trump’s victory speech.
Comedian Rob Schneider hailed Trump’s victory as a “mandate” for the president-elect and later extended “peace and reconciliation” for those who did not vote for him. “I hold no grudge,” he said.
In an Instagram video, Barstool Sports founderDave Portnoy, who said he would be voting for Trump, concluded that the former president won because for “people like myself, independents or moderates,” the Democrats “gave us no choice. That was the worst campaign, and their pure arrogance and their moral superiority have driven people away,” he said. “If you say you’re voting for Trump, suddenly you’re a Nazi, you’re Hitler, you’re garbage. Enough.”
Portnoy added, “You’re alienating all these middle ground people by acting like you’re better than us, smarter than us, and, frankly, insulting our intelligence.”
(This story was updated to add new information.)
Contributing: Michael Collins, David Jackson and Taijuan Moorman