Joy Villa was dressed to shill for President Donald Trump on the Grammys red carpet Sunday.
The singer wore a MAGA-like cap that read, “The Hat Stays On,” and a gold dress to represent cryptocurrency, “which is definitely the new wave of freedom,” she said. Cryptocurrency has been getting a friendly embrace so far from Trump, but its value sank after he announced his tariffs.
The ensemble was designed to embody “American exceptionalism” and to “make America glamorous again,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
Villa said her hat’s “stays on” message is because “They tried to kill Trump. He’s still alive, thank God … Because they tried to get rid of Trump, and now he’s still here, this hat’s not going anywhere.”
“There’s a lot of Latinos, a lot of Black Americans, a lot of artists who love Trump,” she continued. “So the hat stays on. We’re not going to get our hats knocked off, hit off or threatened to take it off.”
Villa wore a border-wall-inspired dress with barbed wire on her shoulders at the 2019 Grammys with the words “Build the wall” on the back to shout out for Trump in his first term. This time, she gushed over his hardline expulsion of migrants.
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“I think that the ones that are being deported should be deported,” Villa said to THR. “I’m a Latina. My family came to this country legally. I love to see rapists, human traffickers deported. I don’t want to see them here.”
That argument may be wearing thin. A recent HuffPost report debunked Trump and border czar Tom Homan’s claim that the initial wave of deportations is focusing on criminals. According to HuffPost, many of the people being arrested don’t have any serious criminal records or any criminal record at all ― except for crossing the border illegally into the States.