Donald Trump‘s conviction has spurred numerous reactions on-line and on tv. After the previous host of The Apprentice was discovered responsible on all 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data by a Manhattan jury, celebrities didn’t wait to weigh in. That is the primary time in American historical past {that a} former president has been labeled a convicted felon.
Scroll right down to see how celebrities across the nation reacted to the information.
Barbra Streisand
Convicted felon Donald Trump is blaming the decide, the jury and New York for being discovered responsible on 34 counts. He won’t ever settle for accountability for his crimes. People should not enable this felon wherever close to the White Home once more. https://t.co/UcFfAU3bv5
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) Might 30, 2024
“Convicted felon Donald Trump is blaming the decide, the jury and New York for being discovered responsible on 34 counts,” Barbra tweeted. “He won’t ever settle for accountability for his crimes. People should not enable this felon wherever close to the White Home once more.”
Jimmy Kimmel
The late evening host performed a clip of Donald strolling out of the Manhattan court docket to talk to reporters. The previous president claimed he was a “very harmless man” preventing for America, including “And we’ll preserve preventing, we’ll battle to the top, and we’ll win.”
“And if we don’t win, we’ll say we received anyway,” Jimmy stated in response to the clip. “Pay attention, I’ve unhealthy information: the one factor you’re going to be preventing to win is the Jell-O cup in your jail cafeteria tray.”
Steve Martin
Right this moment could be day for the GOP members to have interaction in critical self-reflection about their devotion to a convicted felon.#trump #verdict pic.twitter.com/J3QCifz3Lq
— Steve Martin (@UnrealBluegrass) Might 31, 2024
“Right this moment could be day for the GOP members to have interaction in critical self-reflection about their devotion to a convicted felon,” the comic tweeted alongside a observe which started with him writing, “There’s a man working the GOP who needs to be elected president of america.”
Robert De Niro
As one among Donald’s most outspoken critics, the actor informed Selection in an announcement that “this by no means ought to have gotten to this stage.”
“I don’t need to be speaking, however I’m so upset by it,” Robert added. “I’ve to say one thing. That is my nation. This man desires to destroy it. Interval. He’s loopy.”
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi broke her observe file of avoiding saying Donald’s title on The View — solely calling him “You Know Who” for years — in the course of the episode that aired in the future after the decision was introduced.
“I’m going to say one thing you’ve by no means heard me say earlier than,” she started. “However Donald John Trump is a convicted felon.”
Sunny Hostin
WILL TRUMP SERVE TIME IN PRISON? After a New York jury discovered the previous president responsible on all counts in his hush cash trial, #TheView co-hosts query if he’ll serve time. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/ZjE5RgLrBl
— The View (@TheView) Might 31, 2024
The View co-host drew gasps from the gang by noting she “spent the morning speaking to somebody from the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace,” who “believes they’ll suggest a one-year time period in jail and that’s as a result of while you spend a yr in jail in New York, or underneath, you serve in Rikers Island.”