According to Billboard, the singer’s father, restaurant owner Joe Germanotta, showed his support for the president’s re-election campaign in a few since-deleted tweets. One simply included Trump’s Twitter handle and “2020,” while another appeared to respond to a fan upset about the restauranteur supporting Trump. “You may have noticed my political and spiritual beliefs are different. liberty and freedom of choice would not be political,” he wrote, Billboard reported.
Gaga herself has sent out a number of tweets on her own, encouraging people to vote for Biden. She shared numerous tweets leading up to Election Day, trying to drive fans to the polls.
Some of Gaga’s fans have tweeted that it’s especially troubling that her father supports Trump because of recent comments that the president and his campaign have made about Gaga.
At a November 2 campaign rally, Trump said he “could tell you stories about Lady Gaga” after the singer appeared at a Biden rally. “Lady Gaga is not too good,” he said.
In a November 1 statement, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh called the singer an “anti-fracking activist.”
Some Trump supporters reveled in the fact that Gaga’s father endorsed Trump in the since-deleted tweets, and shared the news alongside laughing emojis.
Other fans also urged Little Monsters to not harass Gaga about the particulars of her relationship with her own father.
On Monday, Gaga appeared at a Pittsburgh drive-in rally supporting Biden, where she addressed voters and performed two songs—solo renditions of her Oscar- and Grammy-winning duet with Bradley Cooper, “Shallow,” from A Star is Born, and her Born this Way track “You and I.”
In her speech on Monday, Gaga called on fans and Biden supporters to vote Trump out of the White House. “To all the women and all the men with daughters and sisters and mothers, everybody, no matter how you identify, now is your chance to vote against Donald Trump—a man who believes his fame gives him the right to grab one of your daughters or sisters or mothers or wives by any part of their bodies,” she said to cheers and car horns. “Vote for Joe. He’s a good person.”
Contacts for Gaga did not respond to Newsweek’s emailed request for comment in time for publication.