# Why am I seeing Donald Trump dancing to the Village People? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 5, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435 "2025-12-05T19:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/21 "2025-12-06T01:46:22Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Willis made a [public statement](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/entertainment/ymca-not-gay-anthem-scli-intl/index.html) 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. I read this to my wife who a) barely cares about lyrics and does not listen for any subtext in music, but b) was an adult in the 1970s when the VP were big, and she just laughed. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/22 "2025-12-06T02:08:03Z")
My cousin got married sometime in the '70s, and because she’d met her husband at a Y they picked “YMCA” as the song for their first dance. I managed to keep a mostly straight face. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/23 "2025-12-06T02:13:39Z")
Thank you for the explanation, everyone. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/24 "2025-12-06T02:26:35Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > > Willis made a [public statement](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/entertainment/ymca-not-gay-anthem-scli-intl/index.html) 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. > > I read this to my wife who a) barely cares about lyrics and does not listen for any subtext in music, but b) was an adult in the 1970s when the VP were big, and she just laughed. I barely care about lyrics and don’t listen for any subject in music. And i was a native kid in the 70s and didn’t recognize it to be a gay anthem then. But now I’m an adult, and that’s one of the more absurd statements I’ve heard. Fortunately, we have a new [gay anthem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_to_Go!). That was never in any way inspired by YMCA. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/25 "2025-12-06T02:32:20Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Willis made a [public statement](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/entertainment/ymca-not-gay-anthem-scli-intl/index.html) that (a) “Y.M.C.A.” was not _ever_ intended to be a “gay anthem,” But twenty bucks is twenty bucks. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/26 "2025-12-06T02:36:30Z")
Straight face ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/27 "2025-12-06T02:39:17Z")
LOL I didn’t even intend that. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/28 "2025-12-06T03:00:30Z")
I think you just watched the world cup draw. It was indeed a whole cavalcade of WTF, from start to finish (the Village People performing for Trump wasn’t even the most WTF moment) I watched a couple of British football discussion YouTubes about it (completely apolitical, just British blokes talking about footie) and they are all spent the first half of the show going “WTF the did I just watch! Seriously WTF!” Before they even started talking about who is playing who next summer ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/29 "2025-12-06T03:53:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > 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. You are right. What I should have said is “you don’t have to say it was intended to be a gay anthem to acknowledge that that is what it actually was.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/30 "2025-12-06T03:54:00Z")
With as much as he seems to like the song, you’d think that at some point he would’ve learned that it has a dance that goes with it that isn’t “jerking off two invisible dicks”. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/31 "2025-12-06T04:23:04Z")
Hey, cut the guy a break, he probably isn’t physically able to do anything more complex. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/32 "2025-12-06T07:28:09Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 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 That inspired a [peak SNL bit, too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLk-dxZyp1Q) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/33 "2025-12-06T07:31:40Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > he probably isn’t physically able to do anything more complex. You don’t even have to move your legs! It’s not like his bone spurs are stopping him from making letters in the air with his arms. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/34 "2025-12-06T07:35:16Z")
Ah but can Trump spell YMCA? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/35 "2025-12-06T07:36:39Z")
Hmm. Good point. “Nobody is a better speller than Trump. So many beautiful letters in that word. I had a spelling bee champion come up to me the other day, a very high IQ individual, with tears in his eyes, and he said ‘Sir, you inspired me to start spelling, I hope someday I can spell as strongly as you’.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/36 "2025-12-06T09:59:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 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 mor The Wikipedia article on Trump’s “jerking off two invisible dicks” dance notes that Willis says he’s made several million dollars as a result of the song coming back into the Billboard charts after Trump started using it. > **[Trump dance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_dance)** > > Timeline > Executive actions > Trips > In the week prior to the [2024 U.S. presidential election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2024), “Y.M.C.A.”, to which the Trump dance is frequently performed, appeared in the _Billboard_ Hot Dance/Electronic chart for the first time in 47 years, rising to the number four spot shortly after the election and, according to songwriter [Victor Willis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Willis "Victor Willis"), grossing “several million dollars” since Trump’s adoption of the tune. I’d like to think that, if I were in his shoes, I’d be a big enough person to give that dirty money to charity (ideally one that supports a cause Trump hates), but considering that it’s probably the biggest payday he’s had since the Carter administration, I’m not sure I blame him for taking advantage of the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/37 "2025-12-06T12:41:16Z")
I’m amazed and impressed that Wikipedia has an article on how Donald dances. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/38 "2025-12-06T12:49:52Z")
Trump must think they are manly men. Ya got a cop, a construction worker, a biker… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/39 "2025-12-06T12:51:44Z")
Also, he was born in 1946, so he was in his thirties during their heyday and probably fondly remembers the song from when he went to nightclubs like Studio 54. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435/40 "2025-12-06T13:35:39Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > > > 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**. > > Maybe it was made by the same sculptor who did the now-infamous bust of soccer star Cristiano Ronado. 😉 I think it is beautiful: [![](https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RNpKM.img?w=768&h=512&m=6) ](https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RNpKM.img?w=768&h=512&m=6) I find those zombie hands rising from the ground to grab the Earth so sincere – I did not expect this from FIFA or Mafiantino. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435.md?page=3)