As if we didn’t need more reasons to love Nigella Lawson, she goes and expertly throws shade at the outgoing President of the United States via a tart recipe.
Donald Trump has had his last full day as president, with Joe Biden set to be sworn in today as the 46th President of the United States.
People are marking the occasion with cutting criticisms, celebrations and, in the case of Nigella, plentiful helpings of shade.
The 61-year-old was deliciously sassy as she chose a rather apt dessert as her usual recipe of the day.
Nigella tweeted: ‘Well, yes, Bitter Orange Tart just happens to be #RecipeOfTheDay.
‘Apart from anything else, there are more things to make with Seville oranges than marmalade! This is not complicated: the base is bashed ginger nuts.’
Considering she tweeted this on the day that Trump – known for his love of fake tan, and who is not attending Biden’s inauguration after accusing him of stealing the election – we call shade.
People were loving the tweet, with Caitlin Moran writing: ‘If anyone says “Given the last few years, are there any things that still make you proud to be British?” I have to reply, “It’s a dwindling list, but Nigella Lawson calmly choosing Bitter Orange Tart on the day Trump leaves office would be one of them.”’
Nick Grimshaw quoted the post and wrote: ‘Nigella love levels rising’, while journalist Jim Pickard called the tweet ‘intergalactic sass’.
Nigella didn’t comment on her trolling, but did like a number of tweets pointing out said trolling, including the aforementioned tweets, before giving more recipe advise.
She wrote: ‘I should also let you know that if you don’t have Seville oranges, the recipe also gives the option of using the juice of regular eating oranges and limes. Plus, the curd filling is fabulous just on bread or to sandwich a cake.’
The cook and writer previously expressed her joy that Trump had been denied a second term in the White House, tweeting after Biden’s win was called: ‘Feeling rather tearily grateful. Thank you America.’
She’s far from the only celebrity to be celebrating today, as many stars have been recalling the last four years in anticipation of the inauguration.
Chrissy Teigen was among them, as she wrote on Instagram: ‘Today our great national f***up is over, but the shame will last forever. with 2 impeachments, the creation of 3 million LESS jobs, 403,000 dead, a record low approval rating and god knows how many crimes, we can officially say Donald J Trump is the greatest at being the f***ing worst.
‘Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to have the guy with barely enough well done steak with ketchup fueled brainpower to power a lightbulb who doesn’t even know how to close an umbrella run the country. History will not be kind to you, you absolute psychopath. But I never was anyhow.’
Trump will leave the White House for the last time today, before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn in this afternoon at the Capitol.
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