President Donald Trump’s dance moves have become a notorious aspect of his persona — and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, is admittedly not a fan.
“She hates it when I do the thing on weight lifting. ‘It’s so unpresidential.’ And she hates it when I dance, too. She hates it when I dance to what is sometimes referred to as as the gay national anthem,” the president, 79, told a crowd at The Villages retirement community in Florida on Friday, May 1, referring to the Village People’s hit song “Y.M.C.A” and the president’s signature fist-pumping.
“She hates it,” he continued. “That song was number five 32 years ago, and it went to number one 32 years later. It never hit number one. It was number five 32 years ago and it went number one for months during the last months of the campaign. We love that song.”
The president added of his wife’s disdain for his dance moves, “But she 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.”
Donald then went on to share that his wife “particularly” hates when he attempts to recreate footage of a female athlete competing in a weight lifting competition among other women and a trans athlete. (The president has made anti-trans rhetoric a cornerstone of his presidency, advocating for laws that ban trans athletes from competing in women’s sports and accessing gender-affirming care.)
The president then went on to pretend to lift weights, telling the crowd, “Ah, mom, I can’t do it!”
During the more than one hour speech, the president also addressed the recent shooting at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, telling the crowd that he “shouldn’t be here.”
“There was just an attempt, they say, on my life,” the commander-in-chief said. “I should be indoors at a secure facility where I can quietly, beautifully and safely play out my term, destroying everything that comes in our way, like bad countries that want to get nuclear weapons. We’ll take care of that.”
He added, “So they want me to be in a secure place, and I said, ‘What’s more secure than the villages?’”
Television personality Dr. Phil McGraw, known professionally as Dr. Phil, also attended the president’s speech, at one point joining him on stage. The talk show host — a staunch supporter of the president — joked to the crowd that his wife, Robin McGraw, was upset that he was in The Villages because “those people are crazy partiers.”
Dr. Phil went on to praise the president, claiming that he has restored “trust” by increasing tax deductions for senior citizens.
“Listen, I really do want to take a chance to talk about this a little bit, because what the president is doing here is really something you got to think about it differently,” he said. “He’s restoring trust between Americans and the government because you understand that this was, your benefits, were never supposed to be taxed to begin with. That was the deal the American government made with the American people.”
