Donald Trump says his wife doesn’t always appreciate his dance moves.
The president went on a tangent about his affinity for grooving to the Village People’s 1978 hit “Y.M.C.A.” during an appearance in Sumterville, Fla., on Friday.
“She hates when I dance to what’s sometimes referred to as the gay national anthem, you know,” he said of Melania Trump. “She hates it.”
Trump went on to explain why the first lady objects to his fist-pumping dance moves — which, it should be noted, do not resemble the typical alphabetical gestures that “Y.M.C.A.” ordinarily inspires.
“We love that song,” he said. “But she goes, ‘Darling, please.’ You know, she’s a very elegant woman. She goes, ‘Darling, please, don’t dance. It’s not presidential.'”
Trump’s response? “I said, ‘It may not be presidential, but I’m leading by 20 points in the polls.'”
Trump also bragged about how his bid for president impacted the track’s chart performance decades after it was released. “You know, that song was No. 5 32 years ago, and it went to No. 1 32 years later,” he claimed. “There’s never been anything like it. It never hit No. 1. It was No. 5 32 years ago, and it went to No. 1 for months during the last months of the campaign.”
Trump’s chart numbers and dates do not totally check out. While it’s true that “Y.M.C.A.” did experience renewed popularity as he used the song throughout his 2024 presidential campaign (and also because of widespread usage of it on TikTok), the specific data he cites is incorrect.
Trump has a somewhat tumultuous history with “Y.M.C.A.” He played the song throughout his 2020 presidential campaign, which the Village People initially approved of, writing in a February 2020 Facebook post, “He has remained respectful in his use of our songs and has not crossed the line.”
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