New York Daily News

Proud Boys tweaked by Bette

- BY BRIAN NIEMIETZ

She’s not for those boys. Singer, actress and Twitter provocateu­r Bette Midler reacted in her own unique fashion to images of tense confrontat­ions between anti-fascism activists and the right-wing group Proud Boys over the weekend

“I think the #Antifa guys are way cuter,” the “For the Boys” star captioned a link to a HuffPost article about unrest in the nation’s capital.

The two groups, separated by police, confronted one another in Washington, D.C., amid protests over the 2020 election, which supporters of President Trump believe their candidate won, despite all evidence indicating he lost by roughly 7 million votes. The Electoral College formally declared former vice president Joe Biden the nation’s 46th president on Monday.

Midler, 75, is a noted antagonist of the 74-year-old president, with whom she has a long-running feud dating back to at least 2012.

Trump tweeted in June 2019 that Midler was “a washed-up psycho” after she attributed a seemingly fabricated quote to him that calls Republican­s the “dumbest group of voters in the country.” She apologized for that erroneous attributio­n and referred to their rift as her personal “Battle of the Bulge.”

Midler’s fans on Twitter largely agreed with her, though some thought that finding beauty in the weekend’s ugliness was a little unusual.

“Oh @BetteMidle­r, you always fell for the *bad guys* in the movies,” tweeted one fan. “But in this case, you’re correct!”

A woman from Alaska tweeted “Pretty sick Betty.”

The Divine Miss M listed the Upper East Side apartment she’s lived in for nearly 25 years for $50 million in September 2019. In 2017, she won a Tony for hear leading role in the Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” She is also a Grammy and Emmy Award winner.

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