Stars react to Joe Biden’s election (and Trump’s defeat)

The ad fell at 11:24 am in the United States and went around the world in just a few minutes. Joe Biden won the 270 voters required to become president this Saturday, according to various American media. If popular jubilation has seized several cities across the Atlantic to celebrate the Democratic victory, the stars have meanwhile grabbed their phones to express their joy.

Singer Lizzo sent a straight political message, claiming it was time to hold the current leaders to account. “It’s time for them to listen. And it’s time for a real change in our policies and practices, ”she wrote on Instagram.

A photo of Lady Gaga and Joe Biden

This is the social network that Lady Gaga also chose, sharing a photo in which she hugs the new president-elect in her arms. “You have just given the world one of the greatest proofs of kindness and courage that humanity has ever seen,” she shared. Shakira, meanwhile, celebrated with her children “this new sentence of unity and healing that begins now,” she said on Twitter.

The victory of all women

Reese Witherspoon, she took the floor to congratulate Kamala Harris, the first woman vice-president of the United States. “Let’s take a moment to recognize how far women have come in this country. Thinking of all those who broke the glass ceiling and paved the way so that finally a woman is vice-president moves me so much ”, testified the actress of Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, star de Buffy the vampire slayer, also wanted to pay tribute to women. “As the mom of a little girl, I will never forget the moment we watched the election of the first female vice president together. And, as a mom to a little boy, to show him that men and women are partners and that they can accomplish anything when they come together with respect. “

Spike Lee, he did not let his joy burst out on social networks but in the streets of Brooklyn. Surrounded by dozens of masked people, the director fired the bottle of champagne in the rules of the art.

The joy around Trump’s defeat

Other celebrities, in addition to celebrating the victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, also decided to slip a small tackle to Donald Trump. The basketball player Lebron James has cracked a photomontage of the most mocking, taking the cliché of the “block” that he himself had made on the player Andre Iguodala in 2016. With a clear mastery of Photoshop, the athlete has replaced his face with that of Joe Biden, and that of his opponent with the head of Donald Trump.

Jordan Peele, director of the film Get Out, was satisfied with the three words “You are fired”, a sentence that the current President of the United States proclaimed with delight in his reality show The Apprentice. Another director, Michael Moore, welcomed the defeat of Donald Trump. “Now we must defeat what gave us Trump,” he warns, however.

Last celebrity, but not the least, Kim Kardashian made it simple with the sharing of a photo of the tandem Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, commented with three heart-shaped emojis. If her reaction arouses astonishment, it is in particular because her rapper husband, Kanye West, had also run for the presidential election. We are now waiting for his reaction.