{"id":606966,"date":"2026-09-05T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606966\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:00:11","slug":"eight-time-grammy-winner-art-garfunkel-says-trump-presidency-has-him-considering-leaving-us-i-dont-like-americas-position-at-all-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606966\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-time Grammy winner Art Garfunkel says Trump presidency has him considering leaving US: ‘I don’t like America’s position at all’ | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eight-timeMusic icon Art Garfunkel\/Image: Getty Images Art Garfunkel<\/a>, the eight-time Grammy-winning singer, says he is considering leaving the United States because of his opposition to President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.\u201cI don\u2019t like America\u2019s position at all,\u201d Garfunkel said in an interview with The Guardian. \u201cI\u2019m not aboard, and I\u2019m thinking of leaving the country, frankly.\u201dThe 84-year-old musician said Trump\u2019s policies and actions had left him alarmed, while also expressing concern about climate change, rising water levels and global hunger.Garfunkel questioned the administration\u2019s approach to Venezuela, asking whether taking control of another country had become acceptable under \u201cthe new rules.\u201d\u201cWhen Donald Trump took over Venezuela, are those the new rules? Just take over a country and run it? It\u2019s shocking,\u201d he said.Garfunkel has supported Trump\u2019s political opponents, including Bernie Sanders, and has long identified with liberal politics.Although he criticised the current administration, Garfunkel said he believed Trump\u2019s presidency would eventually end.\u201cYou think: how on Earth are we gonna change the presidency?\u201d he said. \u201cBut Trump won\u2019t last forever. So we\u2019ve got to hope.\u201dGarfunkel has received eight Grammy Awards, including a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also known for his long musical partnership with Paul Simon. The two singers reconciled in 2025 after years of estrangement.Garfunkel is returning to live performance with his What a Wonderful World tour, which begins in Los Angeles on October 1 before travelling to the UK, France, Germany and Japan. He has said he is singing more now than he has in two decades.His recent work includes Father and Son, an album made with his son Art Jr, and \u201cAuthorship\u201d, a track featuring an excerpt from his 2017 memoir over an AI-generated piano arrangement. The song was created for a compilation produced in collaboration with the technology company ElevenLabs.His career began in childhood. Garfunkel met Simon at school in Queens, New York, and the pair recorded together before finding early success as Tom & Jerry. Their 1957 song \u201cHey, Schoolgirl\u201d became a hit, but the duo later separated as Garfunkel continued his education.The pair reunited professionally as Simon & Garfunkel, scoring major hits including \u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d, \u201cMrs Robinson\u201d and \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d. Garfunkel later pursued a solo career, acted in films including Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge, and released the 1979 hit \u201cBright Eyes\u201d.Simon & Garfunkel have reunited for performances over the years, including a 1981 concert in New York\u2019s Central Park attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Their last tour took place in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music icon Art Garfunkel\/Image: Getty Images Art Garfunkel, the eight-time Grammy-winning singer, says he is considering leaving the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[51195,458,1477,274649,146,52854,85,46,65513,51194,18000,74135,274650],"class_list":["post-606966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-art-garfunkel","tag-celebrities","tag-climate-change","tag-criticism-of-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-grammy-winner","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music-career","tag-simon-garfunkel","tag-the-guardian","tag-trump-presidency","tag-what-a-wonderful-world-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}