Singer Joy Villa on Friday compared her reception at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference to the one she received at this year’s Grammy Awards.
“I have way more fans here,” Villa, who is vocally pro-Trump, told the Washington Examiner. “So that’s a huge difference. At the Grammys, though, people do take pictures with me. They actually do. They’ll be like, ‘Oh, I’m a secret fan, can I get a picture?’ But there’s the hate.”
Villa, who was wearing a varsity-style jacket with an image of Trump on the back over a casual dress Friday, is most famous for wearing a “Make America Great Again” dress to the 2017 Grammys. To the awards ceremony earlier this month, she donned a “Build the Wall” gown. The 27-year-old said photographers heckled her when she revealed her outfit.
“I get a lot of dirty looks, I get a lot of cold shoulders, I get a lot of ‘I’d like to step on your dress,’ and ‘oh, fuck Trump’ under their breath,” she said. “I have to act like water on a duck’s back. It has to be like that, slides right off of me. And after two years of this, standing up for what I believe in, keep going, keep going strong, and keep getting hate and death threats, it honestly doesn’t bother me any more.”
Undeterred, Villa said she would continue to encourage her conservative and liberal fans to “speak out, be bold, be who you are.”
“A lot of people don’t like what I say, but they’re going to respect my right to say that,” she said.
