His way was not necessarilyTrump's way.
Nancy Sinatra, daughter ofFrank Sinatra, has pushed back on those associating her late father with the presidency ofDonald Trump. The latest is Trump adviserStephen MillercitingSinatraandDean Martinas reasons for the administration's anti-immigration policy.
"Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids," posted Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy, on Friday, Dec. 26. "Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world."
Both Sinatra and Martin's parents were immigrants.
"Frank was a registered Democrat all of his life," postedNancy on Xthe morning of Monday, Dec. 29. "He did vote for a couple of Republicans over the decades: Nixon because of his stance on China and Reagan because they were very close friends."
The "Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show," which aired in 1967, included Nancy performing her rock classic, "These Boots Are Made for Walking."
Nancy, 85, has been active on social media in reclaiming the political legacy of her late father, who passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. Frank was a supporter of civil rights who would not play segregated venues and whose support of Dr. Marin Luther King included a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall for King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1961.
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In 1945, Sinatra starred in the Academy Award-winning short "The House I Live In," where Sinatra stops a pack of kids from picking on a Jewish boy with a message of religious, ethnic and racial tolerance.
"This is not America," said Nancy with a repost of news of a lawsuit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for squalid conditions in ICE facilities.
Do some homework before you make a fool of yourself.My dad LOATHED trump.https://t.co/q4itQAO0fJ
— Nancy Sinatra (@NancySinatra)December 6, 2025
She also supports taking Trump's name off the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
"YES, PLEASE. It's a sacrilege. 'A violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred,' " Nancy said in a Monday repost of U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J. post calling to take Trump's name off the memorial.
As for Frank and Trump personally, the two had an acrimonious relationship that resulted from the opening of Trump's Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City in 1990. Sinatra had a deal to open the casino with 12 shows but Trump came in at the last minute to try to renegotiate for a lower price and take Sinatra's two openers, Sammy Davis Jr. and Steve and Eydie, off the bill, according to Sinatra manager Eliot Weisman in his memoir, "The Way It Was."
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Sinatra told Weisman to tell Trump "Go (blank) yourself." The Chairman of the Board played the Sands in Las Vegas instead,
"Do some homework before you make a fool of yourself," posted Nancy on Dec. 6 to a post from a fan who said Frank would have loved Trump. "My dad LOATHED Trump."
In related news, the new Pentatonix and Sinatra posthumous collaboration on the Sinatra classic "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" hit the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart for the week of Dec. 20.
This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press:Frank Sinatra loathed Trump, Nancy says after Stephen Miller comment