Barbra Streisand Stumps for Hillary, Disses Donald at LA Concert

Barbra Streisand played the Staples Center in Los Angeles last night, beginning her BARBRA: THE MUSIC...THE MEM'RIES...THE MAGIC! tour in the midst of election season. And according to The Hollywood Reporter, the singer wasn't shy about her political leanings.

Streisand welcomed magician and mentalist Lior Suchard to the stage by saying: "...the only person whose mind he can't read is Donald Trump's, because he doesn't have one." She added: "He's putting his foot in his mouth every day now, so I'm so happy."

Later in the show, Babs talked about science, -- specifically a study on human DNA, which "showed that no matter what the color of your skin or where you were born ... our genetic makeup is 99.9 percent identical to every other person on the face of the earth. Isn't that incredible? The other .1 percent is Donald Trump."

With her final song, a rendition of "Happy Days," Streisand reminisced about singing the tune for former presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton, and added, "I hope that in a few months I'll be singing it for the next President Clinton."

Streisand was joined by duet partners throughout the show, including Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds for "Evergreen," a song that they performed together on Streisand's most recent album release, "Partners," which went platinum. She was later joined by Seth MacFarlane andJamie Foxx for "Pure Imagination" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," respectively. Streisand performs the songs with the two men on her upcoming album, "ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway," set for release August 26th.

Streisand follows her LA concert with stops throughout August in San Jose, Las Vegas, Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Toronto. The concerts were co-directed by Streisand and Richard Jay-Alexander.

With the longest span of number one albums in history, Streisand has recorded 52 gold, 31 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums in her career. She is the only woman to make the All-Time Top 10 Best Selling Artists list, an honor which includes fellow duet partners Elvis Presley and Billy Joel.

With her live performances being so rare and special, the excitement surrounding a Streisand tour is unequaled. Following a 27-year hiatus from live concerts, Streisand's 1994 world tour garnered a record-setting 5 million phone requests to Ticketmaster and sold out within the first hour. Her shows in fall 2006 broke house records in 14 of the 16 venues in which she played (in the other two arenas, Streisand already held the buildings' records).

Streisand's last tour in 2012, BACK TO BROOKLYN, highlighted an emotional return to performing in concert in her home borough for the first time since she was in grade school. Following a North American run, the tour broke records throughout Europe, and culminated in two spine-tingling performances in Israel.

Widely recognized as an icon in multiple entertainment fields, Streisand has attained unprecedented achievements as a recording artist, actor, concert performer, producer, director, author and songwriter. Streisand has been awarded two Oscars, five Emmys, ten Golden Globes, eight Grammys plus two special Grammys, a special Tony award in 1970, and two CableACE Awards - the only artist to receive honors in all of those fields of endeavor. Streisand received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama this past November. Her many other honors include the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Medal, three Peabody Awards and the French Légion d'Honneur. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors.

Streisand is a devoted philanthropist who works tirelessly to fight for what she believes in. A woman of action, Streisand founded The Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai, helping to raise awareness and push research into women's heart disease, the leading cause of death among women.

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