Bette Midler implied via social media that she would drink chemical drain cleaner if former President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election.
The actress and singer, 78, took to X (formerly known as Twitter), on Monday to upload a photo of a bottle of Champagne and a bottle of Drano sitting next to each other in a refrigerator door.
The bubbly had a yellow sticky note on it that read, “Kamala wins,” while the toxic liquid bore one that read, “Trump wins.”
Midler — a staunch Democrat — had been campaigning for current Vice President Kamala Harris, 60, and urging her followers to vote.
But after Republican Trump, 78, was elected the 47th president of the United States early Wednesday, Midler deactivated her account.
According to the US Mirror, the post received over 57,000 “likes” and nearly 7,000 reposts before it vanished.
The outlet further claimed that the “Beaches” star also joked about Trump appearing to simulate oral sex at a recent rally.
“I saw Trump simulating a blow job on his microphone yesterday! UGH! Looks like somebody’s getting ready to try to win the popular vote…in prison!” Midler reportedly wrote of the businessman-turned-reality star-turned-politician, who is also a convicted felon.
In a victory speech at his Mar-a-Lago celebration, Trump thanked “the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected.”
The comments reportedly prompted Midler to share a quote by H.L. Mencken on her X account that read, “When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand.”
The quote continued, “So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people,” the quote concluded.
“We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Reps for Midler did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
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