Singer Barbra Steisand told The New York Times Monday that the stress from Donald Trump’s presidency was making her fat. The Grammy Award-winning…
Singer Barbra Steisand told The New York Times Monday that the stress from Donald Trump’s presidency was making her fat.
The Grammy Award-winning diva has long been a politically active Democrat, supporting Hillary Clinton for president and even going as far to say the 2016 election was rigged. « I really believe she won the election, » Streisand told Variety in February. « I’ve talked to senators from Michigan and Wisconsin. I do believe, like I believed during Bush, they were playing with those voter machines. »
But Streisand’s newest album is the first to incorporate her politics into her music in a major way. « I would lie awake at night with Trump’s outrages running through my head, and I had to do another album for Columbia Records, so I thought, why not make an album about what’s on my mind? » she told the Times.
« I want to sleep nights, » she continued, « if we take the House [of Representatives] I’ll be able to sleep a little bit better. »
« And if [Democrats] don’t? » reporter Maggie Haberman asked.
« Don’t know, » Streisand responded. « I’ve been thinking about, do I want to move to Canada? I don’t know. I’m just so saddened by this thing happening to our country. It’s making me fat. I hear what he said now, and I have to go eat pancakes now, and pancakes are very fattening. We make them with healthy flour, though — almond flour, coconut flour. »
Streisand has made similar observations before, also tweeting in 2017 that Donald Trump made her eat pancakes.
