Donald Trump called Madonna 'disgusting' as he continued to hit out at critics following a chaotic first week as President.
The billionaire businessman was reacting to a comment the singer made during a speech at the Women's March last Saturday when she said she'd thought "an awful lot about blowing up the White House."
"Honestly, she’s disgusting. I think she hurt herself very badly. I think she hurt that whole... cause," he told Fox News' Sean Hannity in an interview Thursday evening. "I thought her, and a couple of others. But I thought she was in particular... I thought what she said was disgraceful to our country."
During the Saturday march, the Vogue singer spoke openly about how the election results had affected her. “Yes, I’m angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” she told a crowd of roughly 500,000 people.
After her speech drew widespread criticism, Madonna addressed the issue, writing on Instagram: “I am not a violent person, I do not promote violence and it’s important people hear and understand my speech in its entirety rather than one phrase taken wildly out of context.”
In an interview with Fox & Friends following the singer's speech, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Madonna "ought to be arrested" for her remarks. A Texas radio station also banned the star's music from its airwaves because of Madonna's "un-American sentiments."
Trump also spoke about his intention to defeat ISIS, calling them "sneaky, dirty rats".
"When you're fighting Germany and they had their uniforms, and Japan and they had their uniforms and they had their flags on the plane, and the whole thing," Trump said.
"We are fighting sneaky, dirty rats right now that are sick and demented. And we're going to win."
The White House is also considering bringing back a CIA programme for holding terrorism suspects in secret overseas "black site" prisons where interrogation techniques often condemned as torture were used.