[FONT="][h=1]Donald Trump haters: 'I pray for sanity to return to the White House' Jennifer Lawrence, John Legend and other celebrity critics of the US president[/h]
Jennifer Lawrence
The Oscar-winner is no stranger to damning Trump (as you'll see in this gallery) but in January 2017 she posted on her Facebook wall against the president's Muslim ban.
"My broken heart goes out to the innocent lives of Muslim refugees that are trying to escape terror and find safety for their families.
"I and millions of Americans understand that someone's race or religion should never keep them in harm's way. It should be every person's duty to help and protect anyone no matter their nationality.
"I pray for sanity and compassion to return to the White House."
John Legend
The musician an, thanks to La La Land, film star, took the opportunity to reject Donald Trump's ban on Muslim travellers during the Producers Guild of America Awards, the day after the President signed the paperwork. Speaking of how immigrants make America a better place, Legend said: "Our America is big, it is free, and it is open to dreamers of all races, all countries, all religions. Our vision of America is directly antithetical to that of President Trump. I want to specifically tonight reject his vision and affirm that America has to be better than that."
Cate Blanchett
The Australian actress has labelled Donald Trump "absurd and ridiculous", and has likened his presidency to a "midlife crisis" in an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
During a recurring game called Emotional Interview, the conversation between the host and Blanchett was interrupted at random points with emotions or situations which the pair had to wrap into their interview – and which, for for the actress, resulted in a running anti-Trump tirade.
After the prompt “uses too many metaphors” – Blanchett brought up the play she’s now starring in. “I’m on stage at the moment and it’s really great to be doing something about midlife crises, because it’s absurd and ridiculous – almost as absurd and ridiculous as a man who has filed for corporate bankruptcy four times who is running the largest economy in the world. I mean, it’s almost as crazy as that.”
Emma Watson
The UN Women Goodwill Ambassador (and Harry Potter star) was one of many famous faces to join the anti-Trump Women's March on Washington on January 21.
"Watched protests yesterday but was under impression we just had an election!" the President tweeted. "Celebs hurt cause badly."
Madonna
During the women's march on Washington, the pop star made an anti-Trump speech in which she said: "Yes, I’m angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House, but I know this won’t change anything. We cannot fall into despair. As the poet W.H. Auden wrote on the eve of World War II: ‘We must love one another or die. I choose love’.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was quick to leap on the "blowing up the White House" line, claiming Madonna “ought to be arrested”. The singer has since clarified her comments: "I spoke in metaphor," she said.
Sir Ian McKellen
Things aren't going well when Gandalf takes to the streets in protest against you. The theatrical knight was one of almost 100,000 people who joined the Women's March through London the day after Trump's inauguration.
"President Breaking Wind has impacted us all; and personally... He’s riled us, got under our skin, making us angry and despairing that he should have got through to the final of his show and turned democracy into a TV/Twitter spectacular," the Lord of the Rings star later wrote on Facebook.
"What will happen? No doubt his believers will be soon disillusioned. The rest of us cannot let him reign unchallenged. The Marches worldwide were a good beginning. Some who fear him say 'give the man a chance'. OK – he’s started by removing LGBTQ people, climate change and state funding of the arts from POTUS’s website. He’s had his chance."
Emma Thompson
The Oscar-winner was one of thousands of women who marched through London on January 21, in protest against the newly-inaugurated president.
She's been an outspoken critic of the Republican Party for quite some time. In September, she told Vulture: “Let’s face it, the Republicans have chosen Donald Trump to run — can you take anything they say seriously, on any level? I suppose you can, in the sense that many of them have power, and that’s something you guys are really going to have to address, because it’s a disaster. I think it’s terrifying.”
Alec Baldwin
Baldwin's comic impersonation of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live has clearly got under the former reality TV star's skin.
“Time to retire the boring and unfunny show," Trump tweeted in October, referring to a show he had hosted himself just 11 months earlier. "Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!”
The lighthearted comedy show's attempt to "rig" the election failed, and so the spat looks set to continue: Baldwin performed as the character again at a rally on January 19 (pictured), the night before Trump's inauguration.
Robert De Niro
In October, the Oscar-winning actor called Trump "completely stupid... he's a punk, he's a dog, he's a pig, a con, a bulls--- artist, a mutt who doesn't know what he's talking about, doesn't care... doesn't pay his taxes... he's a national disaster... I'd like to punch him in the face."
After the election, however, he tempered his comments, and explained that the punch wouldn't be happening: “I can’t do that now he’s president,” he said. "I have to respect that position."
But at a rally the night before Trump's inauguration, De Niro called the president-elect "a bad example of this country and this city."
Andrew Garfield
The Spider-Man actor was appalled by Trump's decision to criticise Meryl Streep.
"What Meryl was saying [is] totally inarguable... The fact that then the man she was referencing came out with these slurs and this empty, empty response, the feeling that he had to have some kind of response, is just ugliness," he said in a recent podcast interview.
Garfield added: "You switch on the television and you see this sick man. The sickness, the toxicity, that is emanating out of his every pore - energetically, you can just feel it, I believe, if your eyes and ears are open. It's shocking,"
Moby
When the musician and songwriter, who had previously described Trump as an "actual psychopath", was approached to play the president-elect's inauguration, he said he would, but only if Trump released his tax returns. He goaded on Instagram: "So Trump what do you think, I DJ for you and you release your tax returns?"
Charlotte Church
The classical music prodigy-turned-campaigner set the matter straight after Trump's team reportedly approached her to perform at his inauguration. On Twitter, Church posted: "Your staff have asked me to sing at your inauguration, a simple Internet search would show I think you're a tyrant. Bye".
Meryl Streep
The Cecil B DeMille Award winner won acclaim and recognition across the world after speaking about - if not mentioning by name - Donald Trump in her acceptance speech at the 2017 Golden Globes. Damning the time he made a mockery of a disabled journalist, Streep said: "this instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."
Trump reacted to Streep on Twitter, calling her "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a Hillary flunky who lost big." Read the story in full here
Lady Gaga
Gaga had been muted in why she was supporting Hillary and not Trump until the final days of the campaign, when she urged her fans to vote for the Democrat candidate and tweeted Trump's wife Melania directly to tell her exactly what she thought of her husband: 'To say you will stand for "anti-bullying" is hypocrisy. Your husband is one of the most notorious bullies we have ever witnessed.'
She added, to her fans: 'We need to mobilise now, #VoteHillary and stop this dangerous man from continuing to divide and wreck our democracy.'
Amy Schumer
At a stand-up show in September, the comedian called Trump an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake-college-starting monster”, prompting several people to boo and reportedly walk out of the show.
Green Day
The punk rockers have been re-writing their song lyrics to slam Donald Trump in recent months. At a gig in September, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong branded Trump a "white supremacist" and changed a line in his song Holiday to “Pulverize the Trump Towers.”
At the MTV European Music Awards in November, he compared Trump to Hitler and amended a line in American Idiot to "The subliminal mind Trump America”.
George RR Martin
The author of A Song of Ice and Fire (adapted by HBO as Game of Thrones) says there has never been a candidate "more unfit to lead this nation" than Trump.
He added that Trump "has said the vilest things any presidential candidate has said since [pro-segregation Alabama judge] George Wallace, and he's rising in the polls. "
Bryan Cranston
Last year, the Breaking Bad star said he would move to Canada if Trump won the election. "I would definitely move. It’s not real to me that that would happen. I hope to God it won’t," he told The Bestseller Experiment podcast.
Bruce Springsteen
The Boss has little time for The Donald. Speaking on a Scandinavian talk show, he called Trump an "embarrassment,"describing the "absurdity" of his White House bid as "beyond cartoon-like."
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the singer went even further: “The republic is under siege by a moron," he said. "Without overstating it, it’s a tragedy for our democracy.”
Later in the campaign, he told The BBC: "I think he's a conman and they're getting played."