Trump and conservative friends remember Suzanne Somers

Actress Suzanne Somers, best known for her role in Three’s Company, died on Sunday at age 76. Many tributes in remembrance of her legacy poured out over social media, including those from many of her famous conservative friends and fans.

“We lost a great Actress and person yesterday, Suzanne Somers. She was strong, inspirational, kind, and although you’re not supposed to say it anymore, very beautiful. She loved our Country, and brought light to everything and everyone she touched, and will be greatly missed. The World loved you, Suzanne!” former President Donald Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social.

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The actress had praised the former president in 2018.

“I’m happy about him. I’m happy that the economy is doing so much better,” she said in a TMZ interview.

She paused with a laugh, “And now my career is over!”

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Joe diGenova, former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia, shared his remembrance of his “conservative” friend on Monday, reflecting on how she and her husband had become “dear friends” with him and his wife after they had seen his legal analysis on television for the OJ Simpson trial.

“We became close friends because they had become really conservative politically,” diGenova said on WMAL. “She was a fabulous human being and she had the equally great benefit of being a great conservative.”

The legal analyst claimed Somers had become so conservative that her “dear friend Barry Manilow refused to talk to her because she supported Donald Trump.”

She had previously flirted with sharing her political opinions with occasional critiques of the Obama administration.

“This has been the most divisive of all the administrations that I’ve ever experienced in my lifetime,” she had said on Fox Business. “And it’s become divisive in the industry that if you’re not part of the group, you should probably keep your thoughts to yourself.”

The actress and author of 24 books had spent decades advocating on the issues of beauty, aging, weight loss, fitness, and health amid her numerous battles with cancer. She had written a piece in the Wall Street Journal sharing her take on the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act.

“First of all, let’s call affordable health care what it really is: It’s socialized medicine,” Somers wrote in 2013. “I’ve had an opportunity to watch the Canadian version of affordable health care in action with all its limitations with my Canadian husband’s family.”

Numerous political figures reacted to her death.

“Devastated to hear about the passing of Suzanne Somers. A true icon and overall amazing human being. You will be greatly missed, my friend,” comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla said.

“Horrible news. Loved by so many, loved the country & so honest about her conservative politics, a great friend to so many. RIP,” Fox commentator Tammy Bruce said.

Before soccer star Megan Rapinoe and other women had fought for equal pay, Somers fought for her own equal pay battle on the set of Three’s Company and found herself fired from the show.

“I was fired from the No. 1 show at the height of my success, and I couldn’t get a job in television,” she had said in an interview. “I couldn’t get an interview, I was considered trouble.”

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She added, “I was the first one in television who asked to be paid commensurate with the men because I was on the No. 1 show and had the highest demographics of any woman in television, and yet all the men were being paid 10 to 15 times more than me. So my contract was up, I renegotiated, and I was fired for asking, essentially.”

Somers took her misfortune and created an empire by launching a beauty line, promoting the Thigh Master among numerous products, and becoming a prolific author.