--- title: Madonna on Trump's Election Win: Women Hate Women description: In an interview with Billboard, Madonna talks about her plan for activism after Donald Trump takes office. canonical: https://time.com/4591799/madonna-trump-election-women-betrayed/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-06T20:59:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:02.351Z og:title: Madonna on Donald Trump's Win: 'Women Hate Women' og:description: 'It’s really sad' og:url: https://time.com/4591799/madonna-trump-election-women-betrayed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7863007665f3a5d3/6988b0decd1bbad1b47034eb/madonna-trump-election-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings in New York City - November 7, 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Madonna on Donald Trump's Win: 'Women Hate Women' twitter:description: 'It’s really sad' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7863007665f3a5d3/6988b0decd1bbad1b47034eb/madonna-trump-election-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Madonna on Donald Trump's Win: 'Women Hate Women' > Sponsored content. 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James Devaney—GC Images by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Dec 6, 2016 8:59 PM UTC Madonna has been in the spotlight for years as singer, philanthropist and activist, and now those latter two descriptions are proving to be just as important to her as the first. In [an interview with ](http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/7597392/madonna-billboard-woman-of-the-year-interview)[_Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/7597392/madonna-billboard-woman-of-the-year-interview)_,_ the icon laid out her plan for action under a Trump presidency and admits that his win wasn’t what she wanted or expected. “It felt like someone died. It felt like a ­combination of the heartbreak and betrayal you feel when someone you love more than anything leaves you, and also a death,” Madonna said. “It feels like women betrayed us. The percentage of women who voted for Trump was insanely high.” _Billboard_ asked her to elaborate on the idea that women cost other women the election: “Women hate women. That’s what I think it is. [Women’s nature](http://motto.time.com/4588803/sheryl-sandberg-donates-100-million/) is not to support other women. It’s really sad. Men protect each other, and women protect their men and children. Women turn inward and men are more external.” She even has friends who voted for Trump, who told her “they would rather have a successful businessman running the country than a woman who lies.” Madonna’s thoughts? “Just absurd. But people don’t have faith in government as we know it. In a way, it makes sense that Donald Trump is the president. Because money rules. Not intelligence, not experience, not a moral compass, not the ability to make wise ­decisions, not the ability to think of the future of the human race.” But, like fellow Clinton supporters [Jennifer Lawrence](http://motto.time.com/4566491/jennifer-lawrence-article-trump/) and [Chelsea Handler](http://motto.time.com/4588770/chelsea-handler-clinton-supporters-election/), Madonna isn’t going to back down from her causes when Trump takes office. “I want to rain on his parade,” she said. “I was put on this earth to fight for the underdog and fight against discrimination.” Read the full interview at [billboard.com](http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/7597392/madonna-billboard-woman-of-the-year-interview) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4591799/madonna-trump-election-women-betrayed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4591799/madonna-trump-election-women-betrayed/"},"headline":"Madonna on Donald Trump's Win: 'Women Hate Women'","datePublished":"2016-12-06T20:59:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:02.351Z","description":"'It’s really sad'","url":"https://time.com/4591799/madonna-trump-election-women-betrayed/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7863007665f3a5d3/6988b0decd1bbad1b47034eb/madonna-trump-election-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7863007665f3a5d3/6988b0decd1bbad1b47034eb/madonna-trump-election-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings in New York City - November 7, 2016","caption":"Madonna perfroms a surprise concert at Washington Square Park in support of Hillary Clinton on November 7, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"James Devaney—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4591799/madonna-trump-election-women-betrayed/","name":"Madonna on Donald Trump's Win: 'Women Hate Women'"}}]}] ```