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Madonna has hit back at the suggestion that she spent a portion of the World Cup final in the same suite as US president Donald Trump.
On Sunday night, the Queen of Pop was one of the headliners at Fifa’s first ever World Cup halftime show, performing a mash-up of her classic song Music and recent hit Danceteria alongside some iconic football cameos.
After the final, footage began doing the rounds on social media which some suggested showed Madonna hanging out in the same suite as the US leader and First Lady (one such post has racked up almost 24 million views at the time of writing, in the two days since it was first shared).
However, a rep for the Like A Prayer singer has since clarified to Rolling Stone that it is not her in the video, and that she was not ever in Trump’s suite at the World Cup.
Since Trump’s political career began in the 2010s, Madonna has been among his vocal detractors.
At the Women’s March ahead of his 2017 inauguration, the Grammy winner raised eyebrows when she delivered a speech claiming that she’d thought “an awful lot about blowing up the White House” since his election.
This prompted a response from Trump himself at the time, who branded Madonna “disgusting” and claimed that her remarks were “disgraceful to our country”.
Following the controversy that ensued, she later clarified that her comment had been taken “wildly out of context”, insisting: “I am not a violent person, I do not promote violence and it’s important people hear and understand my speech in its entirety rather than one phrase.”
After Trump’s victory in the most recent US election was declared, Madonna made headlines when she posted a picture of a cake emblazoned with the message “**** Trump” on Instagram, fuming at the time that she was “trying to get my head around why a convicted felon, rapist, bigot was chosen to lead our country because he’s good for the economy”.
Last year, Madonna continued to make a string of comments against Trump, accusing his administration of “slowly dismantling all the freedoms we have been fighting for and WON over the years”, referring specifically to LGBTQ+ rights.
“Don’t give up the fight!” she urged her followers.
The chart-topping musician later lamented that “fascism” had “become banal and the norm”, and months afterwards, criticised him again in an impassioned post to commemorate World AIDS Day.
Madonna – a vocal advocate for HIV and AIDS awareness throughout her career – wrote on social media: “Donald Trump has announced that World AIDS Day should no longer be acknowledged.
“It’s one thing to order federal agents to refrain from commemorating this day, but to ask the general public to pretend it never happened is ridiculous, it’s absurd, it’s unthinkable.
She added: “I bet he’s never watched his best friend die of AIDS, held their hand, and watched the blood drain from their face as they took their last breath at the age of 23.”
Madonna’s criticism of Trump, in fact, stretches back a lot further than his presidency, as she was branding him a “wimp” in the press as far back as 1990.
