Paul Anka will not be a victim of the political correctness that prompted more than a dozen charities to cancel or move fundraisers from Mar-a-Lago following President Trump’s remarks about the violence in Charlottesville, Va.

Anka, 76, a pop star since he was a teenager, was booked to perform Dec. 2 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., at the LIFE (Leaders in Furthering Education) Lady in Red Gala, and had received a deposit of $75,000.

But when Trump was criticized for blaming “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville, LIFE — run by Lois Pope, the widow of National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope — moved the event to the nearby Breakers with a new date, Jan. 5.

Anka, who has an 11-year-old son and nine grandchildren, is going on a European vacation in January. When LIFE organizers asked if the deposit could go toward a performance next year, his agent allegedly said, “This is not negotiable. You will not get a penny back.”

“I run a small business. I’ve got overhead. I’ve got people on salary,” Anka told me. “They’re guilt-tripping me, asking me to take a hit, but we didn’t cause the problem. They need to eat it. It’s their problem.”

“It took quite a bit of time to secure Paul’s performance, time that could have been better spent helping those who are beneficiaries of the Lady in Red Gala proceeds, from physically disabled veterans and veterans with PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] and TBI [traumatic brain injury], to animals in need of rescue, shelter and treatment during natural disasters such as what is happening in Texas,” Pope said.

“We went out of our way to accommodate him,” she continued. “So I’m sad and disheartened that he is not making the time or the same kind of effort to accommodate us in any way.”