God save the king. Drunk on power, Donald Trump spent Saturday afternoon before adoring fans, boasting of his victories, taunting his enemies and casting himself as America’s absolute monarch, supreme leader and divine emperor rolled into one.
Trump’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor in Maryland began with country singer Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA and raucous cheers in a crowded ballroom that included January 6 insurrectionists.
Seventy-five minutes later, it concluded with the US president standing between two stars-and-stripes flags, pumping his fists and swaying to the Village People’s anthem YMCA.
What emerged in between was a man who has never felt so sure of himself, so contemptuous of his foes and so convinced of his righteous mission to make America great again, even if it means breaking china, cracking skulls and leaving global destruction in his wake.
They’re so far up each other’s asses and whacked outta their gourds on whatever drugs that they’re honestly out of touch with reality. Gonna be a cold, cruel morning when the light of day finally reaches them.
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swaying to the Village People’s anthem YMCA.
Wait…what now? I don’t listen to them and am pretty out-of-touch with music/fan-identity stuff, but aren’t the Village People a gay-themed thing?
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Huh. Apparently so. Not just me who is puzzled.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/20/village-people-gay-trump/
Just what, exactly, is going on with Village People? And why are they performing at Trump events?
The decision to perform at Trump’s inauguration incurred the wrath of fans, especially as “Y.M.C.A” and other songs by the band have been embraced as queer anthems.
One angry fan wrote on X: “What a f**king, ungrateful, pathetic sellout! If it wasn’t for the LGBTQ community, the Village People wouldn’t have gained such popularity and “YMCA” wouldn’t have become such a mega hit.”
“No surprise that this guy happens to be the ONLY original group member who WASN’T gay,” they continued, referring to Willis.
Another said: “You would think that as a band founded and focused around queer culture, you’d have a little more respect for queer people. Not to mention a backbone, for yourself.”
To understand what’s currently going on with Village People, and how they ended up performing for a President-elect famous for his “grim” anti-LGBTQ+ views, it’s helpful to look at where they came from.
https://www.out.com/gay-music/village-people-trump-inauguration-explained
Jim Newman, a former member of the band for eight years, put out a video on Threads expressing his disappointment at the current version of the Village People.
“The Village People that were around for about 40 years had a strong, loyal gay following,” he said. “There was a lawsuit about four years ago, they took away the name Village People from our band, the band that had been around forever, a lot of originals still in the band, and they gave it to an ex-member who was fired a couple years in. And he started a new group, and that is the Village People that performs. Or Village People would never ever perform at a Trump rally, we would never give him the right to use those songs, and we would never slap the face of the strong, especially gay audience that made us who we are today.”
He’s probably bored with hetero sex and is now gay curious. You can tell by their projection.
Or it’s just a song he liked a lot back in the 70s and still thinks it is 1978 because of dementia.
It blows my mind that they use a song from The Village People…isn’t ymca basically a gay anthem? Why don’t they play some Nell Young, or maybe Born in the USA by the Boss?
I think he’s basically down to whatever songs the rights owner haven’t threaten to sue if he uses it.
