Joy Villa Returns to Grammys With Trump-Inspired Red Cap: “I Love to See Rapists, Human Traffickers Deported”
Less than two weeks after Donald Trump returned to the White House, one of his most outspoken supporters at the Grammys, Joy Villa, is back on the red carpet for music’s biggest night, once again highlighting her support for the Republican president.
Villa, who was last photographed on the Grammys red carpet at the 2020 ceremony, which took place weeks before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, made headlines during Trump’s first term for her outfits that showcased her support for the president and his policies at events including the Grammys.
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On Sunday, Villa was photographed wearing a gold dress with a red hat reminisicent of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” caps that read “The Hat Stays On” and a gold chain with a dog sporting a hat.
“This look is all about American exceptionalism, freedom,” Villa told The Hollywood Reporter in a red carpet interview, saying her dress was made by Andre Soriano, whom she described as a “gay Filipino immigrant,” who also made past Grammy outfits for Villa, including an orange dress designed to look like a fence at the U.S Southern border.
Villa, who said she was there “to make America glamorous again,” said the chain was a meme-coin form of cryptocurrency, which she called “the new wave of freedom” and is something Trump has also expressed support for, with the president even launching his own meme-coin before his second inauguration.
As for the hat, Villa said it reflected Trump surviving multiple assassination attempts.
“The hat stays on. They tried to kill Trump. He’s still alive, thank God,” she told THR, later adding, “Because they tried to get rid of Trump and now he’s still here, this hat’s not going anywhere. Like the red-hat army that we’ve seen. … There’s a lot of Latinos, a lot of Black Americans, a lot of artists who love Trump. So the hat stays on. We’re not going to get our hats knocked off, hit off or threatened to take it off.”
When asked about Trump’s wave of mass deportations that began last week, Villa expressed her support for the aggressive immigration approach.
“I think that the ones that are being deported should be deported,” Villa said. “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. I want us to be free, for all colors, for all people. That’s what makes America great again. So we can create, so we can live. As an artist, as a musician, I want to be able to walk at night and not think that I’m going to get killed by an illegal alien. So those are the people getting deported, those are the people that should get deported.”
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