Donald Trump misgendered a Latin singer who then dropped his endorsement of Trump

Nicky Jam, a reggaeton singer who is one of YouTube’s most-watched Latin artists of all time, recently deleted his online endorsement of former President Donald Trump after Trump introduced him as a “hot” woman during Trump’s weekend rally in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump introduced “Latin music superstar, Nicky Jam” at his rally. “Do you know Nicky? She’s hot… Where’s Nicky?”

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The singer said he was thankful for the former president’s support while urging Americans to vote “the right to choose, the right to be who you are.”

“Oh, look, I’m glad he came up,” Trump then said, correcting himself.

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Once face-to-face with Trump, the half-Puerto Rican and half-Dominican singer said, “It’s an honor to meet you, Mr. President. People that come from where I come from, they don’t meet the president. So I’m lucky.”

Jam, who wore a red MAGA cap, then addressed the crowd in Spanish, saying, “It’s been four years and nothing has happened. We need Trump. Let’s make America great again.”

After Trump’s gaffe, the singer posted an Instagram image that referred to himself, in Spanish, as a “hot woman,” and added a caption with 22 crying-laugh emojis. However, numerous commenters criticized his endorsement, and Jam deleted the post by Sunday.

Numerous commenters pointed out that, in 2018, Jam collaborated with the Spotify music streaming service to create a video supporting DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era program that protected immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and provided them with possible pathways to citizenship.

Trump tried to end DACA in 2017, though the Supreme Court blocked his attempt. The program is currently not accepting new applicants.

In the video, Jam said, “When I heard the first things that came out of Trump’s mouth, I said, ‘Oh, my God, this sounds ugly.’ It’s obviously a racist situation.”

Adrian Escárate, a former DACA recipient who appeared in the Spotify video, criticized Jam’s endorsement.

“I’m in the video below where I shared w/ @NickyJamPR the fears that thousands of #DREAMers w/ #DACA like myself had about our protections taken away by Trump,” Escárate wrote via X. “Fast forward to now where it seems Nicky Jam used me to promote his music + sellout our community. Thanks for nothing.”

I’m in the video below where I shared w/ @NickyJamPR the fears that thousands of #DREAMers w/ #DACA like myself had about our protections taken away by Trump. Fast forward to now where it seems Nicky Jam used me to promote his music + sellout our community. Thanks for nothing 😒 https://t.co/eIyo9Dwiv4

— Adrian Escárate (@AceOutWide) September 14, 2024

Escárate wasn’t alone in his criticism of Jam. Even after Jam deleted his endorsement, other Instagram users went into the comments of his most recent post to blast him.

Update: Nicky Jam deletes post supporting Trump, disables comments on last post, after Maná removes their collab in wake of endorsement. Even I’m surprised how hard they’re going at him in comments section of his second to last post pic.twitter.com/wJamdeZo14

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) September 16, 2024

Maná, a Mexican pop-rock band that collaborated with Jam on the 2016 song “De pies a cabeza,” removed the song from all of its digital platforms. In an Instagram post, the band wrote, “Maná does not work with racists.” 

“For the last 30 years, Maná has supported and defended the rights of Latinos around the world,” the post’s Spanish caption read. “There is no business or promotion that is worth more than the dignity of our people.”

Maná has supported U.S. migrants for two decades, the Associated Press noted. When receiving the 2018 Latin Recording Academy’s Person of the Year award, the band’s vocalist, Fher Olvera, said, “We will continue to fight for the rights of migrants who have made this country great; in the last century, they were the difference for this country to be as great as it is.”

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