Rod Stewart made an intervention in the race for the White House Friday with a plea for aid for Ukraine—and by implication an attack on Donald Trump.
The veteran British rocker used an appearance at a stadium concert in Cleveland, Ohio, to explicitly call for continued support for Ukraine, calling the Russian invasion “evil” and displaying pictures of the toll it has taken on the country’s people.
Stewart, 79, has rarely spoken on political issues in public—but has recently become a Trump critic, ending a friendship of many years with his Palm Beach neighbor and saying his wife had called the former president a “disgrace.” In August, he mocked Trump for “turning orange,“ a reference to the former president claiming his rival, Kamala Harris, had “turned Black.”