The Hollywood Reporter
“Bette Midler Sucked!”: Donald Trump’s Most Bizarre Oscars Tweets
6:30 AM 2/21/2017
By Gregg Kilday

• 2012

  Trump was outraged by Sacha Baron Cohen‘s red-carpet stunt, in which he spilled the “ashes” of Kim Jong-il on Ryan Seacrest. Trump also complained the Vanity Fair party was “the absolutely worst party.”

  

• 2013

  He had earlier tweeted he was glad to hear Seth MacFarlane would be hosting, but then blasted best picture nominee Django Unchained and the best actor winner, Lincoln‘s Daniel Day-Lewis.

  

• 2014

  Trump panned the 86th awards, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and particularly hated Bette Midler’s “In Memoriam” ballad “Wind Beneath My Wings.”

  

  

  

  

  

  

  2015

  With director Alejandro G. Inarritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki winning for Birdman, Trump inveighed against Mexico — and President Obama — four months before announcing his candidacy for the presidency.