Donald Trump has used the Village People’s song YMCA at his campaign rallies for years. His dance has become somewhat iconic, as he rocks his hips side to side and does his fist pumps up and down. Yet, it seems as if he’s not the only one doing it.

Donald Trump has done various things as president. However, if one wouldn’t remember him for his policies or work as the President of the United States, his dance moves sure won’t be forgotten. Trump’s dance went viral, sparking a trend in the sports world.

Many athletes emulated his dance moves in games or matches, with one notable example being San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa. Before the Super Bowl LIX in 2024, Donald Trump spoke to Fox about his dance moves. According to him, he never expected his dance moves to go viral at all.

“We do these rallies. They’ve always been great, but they got really great, and I don’t [know] what it is,” Donald Trump said. “I try and walk off sometimes without dancing and I can’t. I have to dance because it’s just, it just got something special about it.”

The fact that Donald Trump is using the YMCA for his rallies has not just been met with positive responses but with criticism. The Village People group has responded many times to the fact that Trump has used their song over the years. In 2020, the band wrote on Facebook, “Our music is all-inclusive and certainly everyone is entitled to do the ‘YMCA. dance, regardless of their political affiliation,” adding that they’d “prefer our music be kept out of politics.”

Though MAGA supporters may have enjoyed, and are still enjoying, the president’s dancing, his political friends have tried copying it with mixed results.

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For instance, one time, Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and former Governor of South Dakota, attempted to mimic Donald’s dance. One Twitter user wrote it was one of the “strangest” clips yet from a Trump rally.