“The View”’s Ana Navarro urges Gloria Gaynor to reject Donald Trump’s Kennedy Middle honor: ‘Trump is a stain’

• The View is on a hiatus, however Ana Navarro nonetheless used her platform to advise Gloria Gaynor towards Donald Trump.
• The Republican cohost stated Gaynor ought to reject Trump's Kennedy Middle honor.
• Navarro stated LGBTQ individuals are struggling below Trump, and that the neighborhood helped construct Gaynor's fan base.

The View cohost Ana Navarro may be on a summer time break, however she's nonetheless utilizing her public platform to name for change within the political sector — notably after singer Gloria Gaynor was chosen by Donald Trump as one of many 2025 Kennedy Middle honorees.

The registered Republican shared Thursday morning an impassioned plea calling for Gaynor to reject Trump's Kennedy Middle award, highlighting the "I Will Survive" icon's giant LGBTQ fan base as a major motive to reject the accolade amid the president's anti-trans and anti-community stances which have drawn widespread criticism.

"Just a few years in the past, I acquired to briefly meet [Gloria Gaynor] at a live performance in Miami. She gifted me a keychain that belted out 'I Will Survive,' while you pressed it. Let’s simply say, throughout first Trump time period, I pressed it til it ran out of batteries," Navarro started in her Instagram submit. "Yesterday, Trump introduced he picked her to obtain a Kennedy Middle Honor, which he plans to host."

She then referred to as Gaynor "a goddess" who "deserves all of the flowers that come her approach," however pressured that Gaynor ought to flip down the forthcoming award.

"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 shade and LGBTQ," Navarro continued. "The homosexual neighborhood specifically, helped flip her signature music into an anthem."

Navarro, 53, completed by calling Trump "a stain on the status and significance of the KCH," and urged Gaynor, 81, as soon as once more, "Don’t do it, Gloria!"

Leisure Weekly has reached out to representatives for Gaynor and the White Home for touch upon Navarro's assertion.

Below his controversial management because the Kennedy Middle's chairman, Trump introduced Wednesday the meant honorees for the 2025 ceremony, which, apart from Gaynor, included George Strait, Kiss, Michael Crawford, and Trump-supporting Rocky star Sylvester Stallone.

Introduced on the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Kennedy Middle Honors usually acknowledge lifetime achievement on this planet of leisure. Prior to now, honorees have included Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones, Rita Moreno, Dick Van Dyke, Tina Turner, and Dolly Parton, amongst others.

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Trump moreover introduced that he'll host the ceremony, saying, "We're going to convey it to the next stage than it ever hit."

His internet hosting duties come amid a turbulent stretch for the Kennedy Middle. In February, Trump's crew eliminated 18 members from the middle's board who had been appointed by President Joe Biden. He then instated his personal appointees, together with White Home Chief of Workers Susie Wiles and Vice President JD Vance's spouse, Usha Vance, to the board, earlier than naming himself because the chairman.

Trump introduced his intention to take extra management and possession of program choice, and appointed Richard Grenell as the middle's director, main many different appointees and advisors to depart — specifically Shonda Rhimes and Renée Fleming.

Insecure writer-star Issa Rae additionally finally canceled a sold-out present on the heart, calling Trump's habits an "infringement on the values of an establishment that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds."

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Trump's White Home has additionally repeatedly spoken out towards The View and its cohosts in latest weeks, with an unique assertion to EW indicating that the crew needed Pleasure Behar to maneuver in another country, whereas one other instructed that the political-leaning talk show could be "pulled off the air" like Stephen Colbert's Late Show if this system doesn't verify its liberal bias.

The View returns in early September for season 29, with episodes resuming at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.

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