The Hollywood A-listers who led the charge to back Kamala Harris on the campaign trail have remained silent this morning after Donald Trump smashed through with a resounding election win.
Harris, 60, had dozens of stars backing her White House bid, with Showbiz royalty Oprah and Beyoncé, among others, accompanying her at her events.
Blockbuster stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts featured in her campaign ads, and millennial and Gen-Z icons, such as Taylor Swift and Charli XCX, urged citizens to turn up at the polls – but her campaign’s reliance on ‘virtue-signalling’ A-listers was not enough.
Trump, 78, became the nation’s next president after captured votes in a wave of swing states, winning both the popular vote and the electoral college overnight.
He received the backing of firebrands Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former WWE star Hulk Hogan, and Joe Rogan, who delivered a last-minute endorsement of Republican candidate on the eve of Election Day.
While it is debatable what affect celebrity endorsements actually have on voters, experts claim that Rogan’s single endorsement to his millions of followers likely helped Trump much more than the star-studded line-up preaching the blue wave.
Kamala Harris had dozens of Hollywood A-listers backing her White House bid, including Oprah Winfrey who travelled across the country on Monday to appear at the last rally of Harris’ 2024 campaign (pictured)
Beyoncé appeared on the campaign trail for Kamala Harris in Texas two weeks ago during a rally aimed at highlighting the perilous medical fallout from the state’s strict abortion ban (pictured)
Trump supporters took to social media to congratulate Trump after he was declared the winner of the 2024 election.
‘The people of America gave @realdonaldtrump a crystal clear mandate for change tonight,’ Musk, who attended Trump’s election night party, tweeted on his social media platform X.
Rogan, whose last minute endorsement is understood to have resonated with male voters, wrote: ‘WHOLE. LEE. S**T.’
Country musician John Rich celebrated the victory with a post reading: ‘WE WIN!! Thank you Lord!!’
‘THERE WILL BE NO LATE NIGHT BALLOT DROP THIS YEAR… THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN,’ added comedian and Saturday Night Live alum Rob Schneider.
‘THIS IS A LANDSLIDE VICTORY AND A MANDATE FOR OUR 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DONALD J TRUMP.’
College swimmer Riley Gaines, who has actively campaigned for fair competition in female sports, wrote: ‘We are officially unburdened by what has been. Welcome back, 47.’
‘Everyday for the past three months I’ve prayed for this country and that God’s will be done. This feels like an answered prayer. It’s the Year of Jubilee.’
But the A-listers who backed Harris have seemingly remained silent Wednesday morning, despite having been some of the loudest voices pushing for her candidacy.
Rapper Cardi B unleashed an expletive-laden rant towards Trump’s army of supporters after he dramatically seized control of the US election, but the stars who joined Harris on the campaign trail – including Oprah and Beyoncé – are yet to issue any sort of statement.
But after Donald Trump, pictured at his election party early Wednesday morning, was declared winner of the 2024 race, the celebrities who threw their support behind Harris have remained quiet
When Harris announced her candidacy in July she received an instant wave of support from Hollywood A-listers.
Charli XCX tweeted that ‘Kamala is brat’, playing on the massive summer social media trend sparked by her album Brat that saw people embracing their inner ‘brats’.
The popstar’s tweet quickly went viral, sparking a fierce response from Charli’s devoted fanbase and catching the attention of Harris who then got involved – overhauling her campaign to include a reference to the album.
Beyoncé signaled her support for the Vice President almost immediately after Harris announced her candidacy – by allowing the vice president to use her song Freedom in her campaign ads and at rallies.
She also threatened to send a cease-and-desist to the Trump campaign after the same song was used in Trump’s social media.
The singer continued to support Harris throughout her campaign and two weeks ago joined her on stage during a rally in Texas aimed at highlighting the perilous medical fallout from the state’s strict abortion ban and putting the blame squarely on Trump.
‘I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother,’ Beyoncé told the crowd. ‘A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in, a world where we have the freedom to control our bodies, a world where we’re not divided.’
Oprah travelled across the country on Monday to appear at the last rally of Harris’ 2024 campaign, where she made her final pitch to voters in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Winfrey said voting for Harris is a vote for ‘values and integrity’, for ‘the right to choose what happens to our own bodies’, and for ‘healing over hate’.
She also issued a stark warning to the crowd, urging them vote. ‘If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again,’ she said.
Katy Perry, Will.i.am, Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi and Christina Aguilera also attended the star-studded event.
Oprah Winfrey, pictured at Harris’ rally on Monday night, said voting for the Vice President is a vote for ‘values and integrity’, for ‘the right to choose what happens to our own bodies’, and for ‘healing over hate’
Taylor Swift threw her support behind Harris in September just moments after the presidential debate where Trump accused migrants of eating pets and said Democrats wanted to ‘ execute babies’ in the ninth month of pregnancy
Taylor Swift even made a final push for Harris Monday night as she marked the last show of the American leg of her Eras tour.
She shared a collection of photos from her show in Indianapolis, Indiana on her Instagram page, as well as issuing an important message urging fans to go vote on Tuesday.
Swift threw her support behind Harris in September just moments after the presidential debate where Trump accused migrants of eating pets and said Democrats wanted to ‘execute babies’ in the ninth month of pregnancy.
She poked fun at Republicans in her endorsement by including a photo of her cat, a knock at JD Vance who once mocked ‘childless cat ladies’.
‘I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election,’ she wrote in September. She signed her post ‘childless cat lady’.
The singer also said in her post that she was disturbed by false reports she had endorsed Trump.
Julia Roberts, who narrated a controversial advertisement backing Harris’ campaign, also urged her followers to go to the polls.
Posting on Instagram on Tuesday, she shared an image of herself wearing a POTUS (President of the United States) T-shirt with a female sign, and a sticker saying: ‘I voted.’
She wrote: ‘There is a time to hope, there is a time to pray and there is time to vote. Today is the day.’
Roberts had previously endorsed Harris for president, as well as attended campaign events for her.
George Clooney, pictured with his wife Amal in September 2024, first threw his support behind Harris in July, just two weeks after was a nail in the coffin of Joe Biden’s bid for re-election
She also provided a voiceover for a campaign 30-second campaign ad that shows a woman, who appears to be a Republican, secretly voting for Harris and Tim Walz – despite leading her husband to believe that she had cast her vote for Trump.
‘In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know,’ Roberts, 57, said in a voiceover.
‘Remember, what happens in the booth stays in the booth. Vote Harris-Walz.’
Trump, 78, blasted the Hollywood A-lister over the ad, calling her a ‘disappointment’ – which reportedly delighted the star’s inner circle.
Roberts’ Ocean’s 11 co-star George Clooney, who was a nail in the coffin of Joe Biden’s bid for re-election, narrated a similar controversial campaign.
The ad, which is seemingly part of the Harris campaign’s quest for ‘secret’ voters, featured a male voter who cast his ballots for her without telling his Trump-supporting buddies.
The short clip urged men to consider how voting for Trump would affect the women in their lives.
Clooney first threw his support behind Harris in July, just weeks after he wrote a scathing article for the New York Times saying Biden could not win the ‘battle against time’ and needed to move on.
Two weeks later he was thanking Biden for stepping out of the way, likening the move he helped foist on the commander in chief as ‘saving Democracy’ – and said he was excited for Harris and her ‘historic quest’.
His New York Times op-ed was published less than a month after Clooney raised $30million at a fundraiser for Biden’s re-election campaign.
