--- title: Kristen Bell Reads Trump's Tweets in Her Gossip Girl Voice description: Kristen Bell took on the task of turning Trump's tweets into art using her famous 'Gossip Girl' voice from the hit show. canonical: https://time.com/5408337/kristen-bell-trump-tweets/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-27T15:58:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:07.650Z og:title: Kristen Bell Reads Trump's Tweets in Her Gossip Girl Voice og:description: You know you love to hear Kristen Bell reprise her famous 'Gossip Girl' voice og:url: https://time.com/5408337/kristen-bell-trump-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kristen Bell Reads Trump's Tweets in Her Gossip Girl Voice twitter:description: You know you love to hear Kristen Bell reprise her famous 'Gossip Girl' voice twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kristen Bell Reads Trump's Tweets in the Scandalous Voice of Gossip Girl > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 27, 2018 3:58 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 27, 2018 3:58 PM UTC Leave it to [Kristen Bell](http://time.com/5362796/kristen-bell-jimmy-kimmel-claw-machine/) to turn [Donald Trump](http://time.com/5398579/brett-kavanaugh-donald-trump-delay/)‘s tweets into a kind of poetry, using her iconic [_Gossip Girl_](http://time.com/4948290/gossip-girl-creators-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-cameo/) voice. The [_Veronica Mars_](http://time.com/3339445/veronica-marks-spinoff-play-it-again-dick/) and _Good Place_ actress famously voiced the invisible narrator of the hit CW show during its six season run up through 2012, bringing to life the salacious rumors and questionable tidbits that kept Manhattan’s Upper East Siders — mostly the characters of [Blake Lively](http://time.com/5394925/a-simple-favor/) and [Leighton Meester](http://time.com/4150291/leighton-meester-dana-williams-blue-christmas/) — busy investigating. It’s been a few years since _Gossip Girl_ ended, of course, but Bell’s signature “XOXO” voice remains just as memorable as ever. So on her appearance on _Late Night with Seth Meyers_ on Wednesday night, she gave some Trump tweets the glossy _Gossip Girl_ treatment for kicks, turning the dry Twitter jabs into eyebrow-raising statements thanks to her voice acting. While this may be the last time for a while that we hear from Bell as her _Gossip Girl_ character, there is a different reboot in the works for her: the early 2000s show Veronica Mars just announced it’s making a comeback, once again starring Bell as the titular investigator on the cult favorite hit. It originally ran for three seasons, but will [making its return](https://www.thewrap.com/veronica-mars-revival-kristen-bell-darker-hulu/) on Hulu in 2019. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5408337/kristen-bell-trump-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5408337/kristen-bell-trump-tweets/"},"headline":"Kristen Bell Reads Trump's Tweets in the Scandalous Voice of Gossip Girl","datePublished":"2018-09-27T15:58:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:07.650Z","description":"XOXO, you know you love her...","url":"https://time.com/5408337/kristen-bell-trump-tweets/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5408337/kristen-bell-trump-tweets/","name":"Kristen Bell Reads Trump's Tweets in the Scandalous Voice of Gossip Girl"}}]}] ```