While speaking at the One Young World Summit in Ottawa, Canada, singer and activist Cher not only slammed both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, she also attacked the GOP presidential candidate's sons -- Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump -- for posting an online picture of themselves holding a dead leopard they killed during a hunt in Africa.
Referring to the photograph, Cher declared: “I think that when that kind of message is sent from people who are influential, it’s the exact wrong message” even though the singer took a different view of the value of life in August of 2012, when she declared: “May God take my voice if I stop promoting abortion.”
The activist also stated during the animal-rights event that an item like the sons' photo “changes the mindset of people; they become numb to what’s going on.”
"I just want to say if you have a pet ... just think about what would happen if that pet was mistreated, if that pet was tied up for its entire life and never allowed to move, you would be motivated to do something,” she asserted.
The 70-year-old Oscar-winning actress was using the event to launch her “new campaign to ensure that animals in captivity are treated and fed properly” and with "dignity,” but she could not resist sharing her thoughts on the upcoming election.
According to an article written by Jerome Hudson on Breitbart.com, the singer also hammered their father as a “dangerous political figure.”
She also stated:
I don’t know how [Trump is] a candidate. He is so dangerous, and what he brings to my country, what he’s awakened in my country, is bigotry and distrust and a certain kind of supremacy in certain groups, and he lies.
He’s amazing. He tells something and then you go back and see what he’s said and it seems like the truth both times.
“He’s so terrific at lying,” the singer added. “I’ve never seen anyone so good; it’s amazing. I could go on and on on this subject forever because I’m so traumatized by him. I am truly traumatized by him.”
However, Cher quickly changed the subject to assault Clinton with “sobering criticisms,” Hudson noted. The singer said “young voters are not drawn to the Democratic presidential candidate because they don't trust her.”
“It’s not easy because especially millennials (people who reached young adulthood near or during the year 2000) feel that her sins are really enormous,” Cher said, according to the article in the Daily Mail website.
“If you delve into some of the things she’s being accused of -- she’s screwed up, and that’s for sure.”
the liberal activist stated.
Nevertheless, Cher suggested that the Democratic candidate would “do her best” should she win in November.
“I’ve known her for a long time,” the singer noted, and “she’s a politician," but “if you look at her from the beginning of her life till now, she’s worked hard for people.”
Cher also had a warning for millennial voters: “They need to know is that this election will change America and have consequences for the world for 40 years, and the people who will suffer the most are millennials.”
“And they will suffer because the people [Donald Trump] will bring with him will put an end to any hope that women have of getting the rights we had in Roe v. Wade (the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized a woman's decision to have an abortion).”
“I believe they will put an end to any gay marriage. They will put an end to gay adoption. They will put an end to so many services that we do for the old, the young, the starving,” she added.
Cher continued: “I would say that it has such far-reaching consequences and -- look, it’s not going to hurt me. I’m 70; it’s not going to do anything to me -- it’s going to do stuff to young people, and that really scares me and it bothers me because he just doesn't care.”
Not known to shy away from sharing her thoughts on Trump’s political rise, Cher called the real estate magnate a “f**king idiot” and compared Trump to Hitler during a fund-raising event for Clinton in August.
During the Daily Mail article, she also slammed the GOP by stating it's “not the government of the people” before again criticizing Trump and “how he's able to align himself as one of the people is just, it's amazing. He really deserves some sort of reward; it's just amazing.”
"I think that how we treat animals, how we treat children, how we treat old people, says everything about us," Cher said without discussing how we treat unborn children and Republican presidential candidates.
