“The View” co-host Ana Navarro pleaded with musical icon Gloria Gaynor Thursday to reject her upcoming Kennedy Middle award as a result of will probably be bestowed by President Donald Trump.
In a put up on Instagram, the political commentator shared how she as soon as met the “I Will Survive” singer at a live performance and Gaynor gifted Navarro a keychain that belted out her well-known track.
“Let’s simply say, throughout first Trump time period, I pressed it til it ran out of batteries,” the anti-Trump commentator wrote.
She then expressed her displeasure that Gaynor could be honored at an occasion hosted by the president.
“Yesterday, Trump introduced he picked her to obtain a Kennedy Middle Honor, which he plans to host. Look, the lady is a goddess and deserves all of the flowers that come her approach. However I want she wouldn’t settle for an award from the fingers of a person who has attacked the rights and historical past of girls, folks of coloration and LGBTQ,” she wrote.
“The homosexual neighborhood, specifically, helped flip her signature track into an anthem. Trump is a stain on the status and significance of the KCH. Don’t do it, Gloria!” Navarro pleaded.
On Wednesday, Trump, the brand new Kennedy Middle Chairman of the Board, introduced the listing of entertainers who will obtain awards on the forty eighth annual Kennedy Middle Honors in December.
Gaynor joins nation legend George Strait, rock band KISS, Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, and English actor Michael Crawford because the honorees this yr.
A rep for Gaynor informed Fox Information Digital after the announcement Wednesday that she was “past blessed and honored to be receiving this award.”
“My hope is that in accepting this honor, I can proceed with the inspirational phenomenon that started with ‘I Will Survive.’ Sharing my music and artwork on a worldwide stage to supply encouragement, hope, empowerment, inspiration, understanding, and unity is the core of my objective,” the rep for Gaynor shared.
“I’ve at all times targeted on a inventive path that may assist others and I hope that being awarded the Kennedy Middle honor will assist me proceed this legacy.”
Gaynor’s group has not publicly addressed Navarro’s feedback and didn’t return Fox Information Digital’s request for remark Thursday.
Trump will host the annual awards present after his overhaul of the Washington, DC, performing arts middle in February.
Shortly into his second time period, Trump fired a number of Kennedy Middle board members, together with the president and Chairman of the Board, and changed them with pro-Trump figures, who then named the president as chair.
In a February put up on Reality Social saying the adjustments, Trump vowed to make the performing arts middle “nice once more,” by eradicating board members who didn’t share his administration’s “imaginative and prescient for a Golden Age in arts and tradition.”
Trump stated that drag exhibits “concentrating on” kids had been one instance of programming on the Kennedy Middle that will finish beneath his management.
His actions stirred backlash within the theater and movie world, with a number of entertainers, together with showrunner Shonda Rhimes, singer Renée Fleming, and actress Issa Rae, resigning from their roles on the Kennedy Middle or canceling upcoming performances on the venue in protest.
