Leftists Melt Down Over ‘Gay Icon’ Gloria Gaynor Being A Republican Donor

Singer Gloria Gaynor is causing a meltdown among leftists after news recently surfaced that she made financial contributions to Republicans. 

The 81-year-old two-time Grammy Award winner first made waves after it was revealed that she would be honored by President Donald Trump with a Kennedy Center award. While many leftists expected Gaynor to decline the tribute, she surprised them all by graciously accepting it. Then, it was revealed by the leftist outlet Meidas News that the singer had donated $22,000 to Republican candidates between 2023 and 2024. Gaynor is widely regarded as a gay icon, primarily because of her 1978 disco anthem “I Will Survive.”

The outlet linked to the FEC register showing that the singer made small donations under her real name, Gloria Fowles, to the campaigns of Kevin McCarthy, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Marsha Blackburn, Dave McCormick, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, and others.

Gaynor has not been outwardly political during her career. She said during a Library of Congress speech in 2017, “I’m really not a political person so I’m not about to really become political,” but added, “a lot needs to change.”

“We’ve got to get back to absolutes. Without absolutes, we will perish,” she added. “We know right from wrong. We know good from evil. We know how to cure the ills of this nation. We’ve got to change this infection of greed and selfishness that has consumed this nation.”

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Trump’s other nominations for the Kennedy Center honors include country music star George Strait, actor Sylvester Stallone, the rock band KISS, and “Phantom of the Opera” actor Michael Crawford.

The president said he turned down potential award candidates for being “too woke.”

“I turned down plenty, they were too woke. … I had a couple of wokesters. No, we have great people. This is very different than it used to be,” Trump said.

The president called Gaynor “one of the most revered singers of the American disco era” and further called “I Will Survive” an “unbelievable song.”

“I have heard it, like everyone else here, thousands of times. And it is one of those few that get better every time you hear it,” he said when announcing the nominees. “And no one can sing it like her.”

Social media was abuzz with negative comments about Gaynor after it was revealed that she had donated to Republicans. “I never thought I’d see the day where I say F*** GLORIA GAYNOR, but here we are,” one popular comment said, echoing what so many other leftists were saying.