Donald Trump has claimed his dance moves to Village People‘s ‘Y.M.C.A.’ brought the song to the top of the charts.
The US President addressed a crowd at The Villages retirement community in Florida on Friday (May 1) and suggested that he was largely to thank for the 2024 chart resurgence of the 1970s tune, which became an unlikely anthem throughout his campaign.
Trump also told the crowd that his wife Melania wasn’t a fan of his embrace of the track. “She hates when I dance to what is sometimes referred to as the gay national anthem,” he said. “She hates it.”
‘Y.M.C.A.’ topped the Billboard sales charts in late 2024, decades after it first debuted in 1979. Recounting the disco classic’s chart resurgence, Trump incorrectly inflated the statistics, stating that it “went to number one for months”, when, in actuality, the track only spent six weeks at the top spot.
“We love that song,” Trump continued on Friday. “But [Melania] goes, ‘Darling, please.’ You know, she’s a very elegant woman. She goes, ‘Darling, please don’t dance. It’s not presidential.’ I said, ‘It may not be presidential, but I’m leading by 20 points in the polls or something.'”
