Among all the important and serious headlines about the former US president Donald Trump this week, one minor curiosity caught my eye involving the mulleted older rocker Rod Stewart.
In a recent interview with the lifestyle magazine Scottish Field, Stewart described how his wife, Penny Lancaster, banned him from hanging out with Trump. At the time, the two men had known each other for a while as neighbours in Palm Beach, Florida: Stewart would regularly attend Trump’s parties, occasionally even performing at his casinos. Stewart’s friends, meanwhile, got to play golf at Trump’s courses for free. All of it was enough for Stewart to describe Trump as a “dear friend” in 2018, despite admitting in the same breath that “his moral compass is way off”.
