Singer Lana Del Rey’s recent comments about her husband, Jeremy Dufrene, have unwittingly led to speculation over whether she is now a supporter, having previously criticized the president-elect.
While presenting a Producer of the Decade award to Jack Antonoff at Variety‘s eighth-annual Hitmakers event on Saturday in Hollywood, Del Rey , a Louisiana-based alligator tour guide with whom she tied the knot in September.
Mentioning Antonoff’s relationship with actor Margaret Qualley, Del Rey told the crowd: “I saw the way he looked at her when he met her, and he’s a big reason why I waited so long to get married and why I met my amazing husband.”
She went on: “I really feel like there’s kind of a singer’s curse around meeting an honest partner who has no skin in the game, no dog in the race.
“And it’s super nerve-racking to have to hold on to an innocent perception of how things could go when you’re in an industry where maybe your values or your morals don’t quite match up with what’s going on—especially when people think that you probably don’t have any morals or values, so it can get all twisted up.”
This particular part of Dey Rey’s speech was shared on social media, where a number of people surmised that the musician was suggesting that her own political views stood at odds with those in Hollywood, where celebrities have traditionally been perceived mostly Democrat-leaning.
Speculation was boosted by previous speculation regarding Del Rey’s husband. Shortly after her wedding, Del Rey faced accusations from a faction of social media users of marrying a “potential MAGA supporter,” after unverified screenshots purported to show Dufrene mocking masks and vaccinations in a post during the COVID-19 pandemic. Another unverified post mocked transgender people.
While some celebrated—and others criticized—what they interpreted as Del Rey’s support of , the singer has not explicitly stated who she supported this election cycle. She has also been critical of Trump in the past.
Regalrumination.com has rounded up comments that Del Rey has made about Trump over the years. Representatives of Del Rey and Trump have been contacted by Regalrumination.com via email for comment.
Del Rey Puts Hex on Trump
In July 2017, six months after Trump had embarked on his first presidential term, Del Rey took to X, formerly , to share a mysterious message that showed four dates. “Ingredients can b found online,” read a caption accompanying the since-deleted post, which led internet sleuths to discover that the message came from an international witch endeavor to “bind” Trump.
When asked several days later by if she also joined in with attempting to cast a spell on Trump, Del Rey responded: “Yeah, I did it. Why not? Look, I do a lot of s***.”
As for whether she had been casting other spells at home, Del Rey said: “I’m in line with Yoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] and the belief that there’s a power to the vibration of a thought. Your thoughts are very powerful things and they become words, and words become actions, and actions lead to physical changes.”
Criticizing Ye’s Trump Support
As Trump’s first term approached the midway mark, Del Rey criticized then-avowed Trump supporter Kanye “Ye” West, over his support for the GOP figurehead. At the time, West had performed on Saturday Night Live, where he spoke at length about his support for Trump, as well as .
Later sharing an photo of himself wearing a , West wrote that “this represents good and America becoming whole again. We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment. Message sent with love.”
Del Rey, who performed at West’s 2014 wedding to , responded by criticizing the musician and fashion designer’s political stance.
“I can only assume you relate to his personality on some level,” she wrote at the time. “Delusions of Grandeur, extreme issues with narcissism—none of which would be a talking point if we weren’t speaking about the man leading our country.
“If you think it’s alright to support someone who believes it’s OK to grab a woman by the p**** just because he’s famous—then you need an intervention as much as he does-something so many narcissists will never get because there just isn’t enough help for the issue. Message sent with concern that will never be addressed.”
“I’m in the Middle”
In her 2019 single “The Greatest,” Del Rey described West as “blond and gone” in reference to his support of Trump. In an August 2019 interview with following the track’s release, Del Rey said that she “gratefully” hadn’t received a response from West.
“Here’s the thing: I don’t want to elicit a response,” she told the publication. “You never feel better for having written something like that. But Kanye just means so much to us.
“And by the way, I’m grateful to be in a country where everyone can have their own political views. I’m really not more of a liberal than I am a Republican—I’m in the middle. But it was more like the mood and the vibe around, Yo, this man is the greatest! Really? The greatest? It hurt me. Did I have to say anything? No. But it’s more just a line that represents a lot of things.”
Del Rey went on to describe the time under former President ‘s administration as evoking the feeling that “a dream had come true-ish and we could focus on the arts and it was a time of reprieve and we didn’t have to talk about certain things. But of course there was a lot going on.”
She then juxtaposed those times with how she felt things were under Trump. “One portion of the dots that people are connecting is: ‘Is it possible that this presidency is engendering this idea that it’s O.K. to be more violent?’ And a lot of people are saying yes,” she stated. “Someone who says ‘grab ’em by the p****,’ that does make someone else feel a little bit more entitled to bring his rifle to school. If there wasn’t a time for protest music, there absolutely is now.”
The “grab ’em” comment was while he was on a tour bus with then-Access Hollywood host Billy Bush back in 2005. The tape was made public in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election.
“You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump told Bush in the recording. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
“Whatever you want,” Bush responded.
“Grab ’em by the p****,” Trump then said. “You can do anything.”
Denying Vote Accusation
In November 2020, as presidential election votes were still being counted, Del Rey, whose given name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, clapped back at a fan who over eventual victor, President .
“I just KNOW Elizabeth voted for Trump, I wish I could look up her voting records,” wrote the fan on X. “Something doesn’t sit right with me.”
“Go. F***. Yourself,” Del Rey hit back, prompting the fan to respond: “Lana telling me to go f*** myself when I have her tattooed on my arm lmfaoooo alright then.”
“Nah read what u wrote h**,” Del Rey wrote back, seemingly ruffled by the comments about how she voted.
Following the January 6, 2021, riot, during which a number of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol where Biden’s victory was being certified, Del Rey spoke with Radio 1 about Trump.
“The madness of Trump, as bad as it was, it really needed to happen,” she said. “We really needed a reflection of our world’s greatest problem, which is not climate change, but sociopathy and narcissism. Especially in America. It’s going to kill the world.”
“It’s not capitalism, it’s narcissism,” she went on. “I was surprised we didn’t have a live-television-psychopath-crazy-person as a president a long time ago because that’s what we see on TV and that’s what we see on Instagram.”
Del Rey then discussed Trump’s pre-riot comments at the “Save America” rally, where he urged his supporters to “march towards the Capitol” as he repeated his baseless assertion that the 2020 election had been “stolen” by .
“You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” Trump told the crowd ahead of the riot. “You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
“Delusions of Grandeur”
Addressing Trump’s comments during her BBC interview, Del Rey said: “We finally have to address this big issue in the world of, what do we do with people who don’t know they’re hurting other people—like Trump. He doesn’t know that he’s inciting a riot, and I believe that. He’s got delusions of grandeur. I think he’s unwell.”
“I think the people who stormed the Capitol—it’s disassociated rage,” she went on. “They want to wile out somewhere. And it’s like, we don’t know how to find a way to be wild in our world, and at the same time the world is so wild.”
After her comments were met with backlash, Del Rey insisted that they were “taken out of context,” as she clarified that they were made from a “liberal” position.
“Just to take a moment to say that what I was describing with the BBC was that Trump is so significantly impaired that he may not know what he was doing due to his significant lack of empathy and the wider ranging problem is the issue of sociopathy and narcissism in America,” the singer explained.
“I’ll say it again—I don’t appreciate the larger magazines taking my well-intentioned and believe it or not liberal comments out of context,” she continued. “It’s actually what I sing about quite often. It’s what I’ve been condemned for saying. You can listen to the entire interview.”
Clarifying her position in a since-deleted X post, Del Dey stated: “I said that the bigger problem is Sociopathy—so whether he meant to incite a riot is less important than the larger issue in America at hand—the problem of sociopathy.”
“It’s f***** up,” she added on the platform in response to a post from Complex. “You know I’m real. You know I voted for Biden. I’m super steady in everything I’ve ever said. You probably listened to my entire interview. So whoever wrote this is a genuine piece of s***. I am the one helping bringing the problem with narcissism to light.”
Taking to Instagram, Del Rey shared a since-deleted four-minute video in which she further explained her stance on Trump, as she expressed a desire not to be “painted as some kind of white .”
“I just wanna talk about a couple of things about some of the articles that are coming out today about me thinking that Trump didn’t mean to incite the riots,” she said at the time, per . “I think it’s cute that that’s the little takeaway. I get it—I have something to say and I don’t just show up giggling and talking about my hair and makeup.”
“I said that when someone is so deeply deficient in empathy, they may not know that they’re the bad guy,” the star went on. “And that may be a controversial opinion. But do not make the controversy that I don’t think he meant to incite the riot. It’s not the point, is what I was saying. The general point is the wider ranging issue of sociopathy in our system that’s being reflected in our government and right back to us.”
“I really don’t appreciate being painted as some kind of white Republican who’s always been given everything and supports the incite of a Capitol riot,” she added. “I frigging grew up struggling—we had nothing. I think sometimes, because of the way I look, it’s easy to paint this picture. But man did I struggle to become the genuine singer songwriter that I am.”
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