I’m in a bar for lunch and suddenly the tv is showing the Village People singing and dancing on a stage.
Trump is in a balcony watching them and shaking his booty.
???
I don’t know the answer to that but someone will be over with the eye bleach shortly. 
It might almost be worthwhile to have a video of him shaking his blubber to the Village People’s “Sleazy”.
I’m the baddest jock around
And I’m sleazy
Sleazy, yeah, I like it sleazy
You know how I like it baby
I like it sleazy
Oh I like it sleazy
Look! It’s the Emperor’s New Dance!
It’s the FIFA World Cup extravaganza at the Kennedy Center, where all the pairings are drawn for next year’s tournament. Village People are there at the special request of the Orange Dumbass.
How many of those Village People were originals?
FIFA also invented their own peace prize, because that’s how you play Donald.
As I understood it, The Village People are there at FIFA’s request but it is indeed to suck up to Trump, just like the Peace Participation Trophy.
I couldn’t bring myself to watch it because these World Cup draws are always interminable, but I saw some of the BBC live text about it (yes, this is a thing) and it sounded even more cringeworthy than I expected, which is really saying something. And of course, Donald got the award which is the least surprising thing this millennium. Has anyone else actually seen the trophy he got for it though?! It did make me question whether Infantino has been trolling Trump all along. It is hideous.
Only lead singer Victor Willis (the “cop”); after years of legal wrangling, he holds the license to use the band name and personas.
In 2020 and 2024, Willis had spoke out against Trump’s use of Village People music at his rallies, but he’s since apparently decided that he likes money more: Willis and the Village People appeared at events for Trump’s second inauguration, and late last year, Willis made a public statement that (a) “Y.M.C.A.” was not ever intended to be a “gay anthem,” and (b) he would sue any news organization which stated otherwise.
You are correct. FIFA had to extend the invitation, but did so at Drumpf’s behest. Because he wanted to show the world his dance moves.
Maybe it was made by the same sculptor who did the now-infamous bust of soccer star Cristiano Ronado. 
Fortunately, you don’t have to say it was intended to be a gay anthem to acknowledge that that is what it became.
Unfortunately, you misspeak when you say it became that, which implies that it wasn’t that in the beginning and spits in the face of all those deceased members of the group that knew otherwise.
It’s also Canadian news because Canada is co-hosting and Mark Carney is down there for the draw.
I’ll be honest, I graduated high school in 1984 so I was a kid when they were big (starting in 1977) and the subtext clearly flew over my head. But “Macho Man”? “In the Navy” (and this was the all-male navy remember)? “It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.”? The subtext is barely below the surface.
I’m a year older than you, and even as a fairly sheltered and naive teenager, I fully recognized it.
Unfortunately, I was a Top 40 radio DJ during they heyday of the Village People, and played (and played and played) several of their songs.
We always thought “In the Navy” was based on an old joke:
“How do they separate the men from the boys in the Navy?”
“With a crowbar.”
Bet Obama wishes he had one of those!
Trump finally gets the respect he craved.
Plus gaudy bling.