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BumRushDaShow

(172,431 posts)
Sat May 23, 2026, 09:38 AM 4 hrs ago

Trump Claims He 'Did So Well With the Gay Vote' Because He Plays the 'The Gay National Anthem' at Rallies

Source: MEDIAite

May 22nd, 2026, 10:34 pm


President Donald Trump claimed he did well among gay voters in the last election, and credited The Village People. Trump held a rally in Suffern, New York on Friday, where he was joined by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who is running for reelection in New York’s 17th congressional district.

The president was introduced by New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart, whose physique Trump marveled at. “I’m looking at the legs,” Trump said. “He’s this beautiful guy. He’s got legs like tree trunks!”

Later, he told the crowd that First Lady Melania Trump had requested the president not recite some of his regular rally lines. During the anecdote, he took a brief detour to say he did well among gay voters because he plays “Y.M.C.A.” by The Village People at his rallies.

“[S]he says, ‘Darling, please, you speak so beautifully, would you do me a favor? Don’t do the swimming story. Don’t do the weight-lifting story. It’s so damn unpresidential. And also, darling, when you’re leaving, and they have that song, gay national anthem,'” Trump said, relaying the first lady’s remarks. “That’s why I did so well with the gay vote, I think, because of that song,” he said. “I did great with the gay vote, better than any Republican’s ever done by far, but my wife, first lady, very elegant woman.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-claims-he-did-so-well-with-the-gay-vote-because-he-plays-the-the-gay-national-anthem-at-rallies/

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Trump Claims He 'Did So Well With the Gay Vote' Because He Plays the 'The Gay National Anthem' at Rallies (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 4 hrs ago OP
What is this the 1950s? yardwork 4 hrs ago #1
He cracks me up PatSeg 3 hrs ago #10
Exactly! He thinks this is how gangsters talk. yardwork 2 hrs ago #13
And everyone else calls him "sir." Harker 1 hr ago #19
Like Zsa Zsa Gabor BumRushDaShow 47 min ago #20
He Wants To Ban Gay Marriages 2na fisherman 3 hrs ago #2
Just think if Pete Buttigieg was playing YMCA at his rallies Haggard Celine 3 hrs ago #3
What an idiot! slightlv 3 hrs ago #4
And there it is again Ray Bruns 3 hrs ago #5
What is Jaxon Dart's problem? Why does he support a monster? travelingthrulife 3 hrs ago #6
So he thinks people vote for him based on a song? twodogsbarking 3 hrs ago #7
When I read her words...starting with Darling... MiHale 3 hrs ago #8
I thought of Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle. ChazInAz 1 hr ago #17
It's a Gabor (sisters Eva and Zsa Zsa) thing BumRushDaShow 39 min ago #21
Damn! All along I thought it was the Orange Makeup bucolic_frolic 3 hrs ago #9
When you accept him as gay, the hair and make up and cbabe 3 hrs ago #11
I'm getting the same vibes relogic 23 min ago #22
He plays it eringer 3 hrs ago #12
That really makes sense actually. whopis01 2 hrs ago #14
sadly, many voters are this stupid samsingh 2 hrs ago #15
Big, strong men thanked me for playing that song. DavidDvorkin 2 hrs ago #16
This is not breaking news. Trump is beyond fucking crazy. Mr. Reaper, where in the heck are you? Golfing? twodogsbarking 1 hr ago #18

yardwork

(69,679 posts)
1. What is this the 1950s?
Sat May 23, 2026, 09:42 AM
4 hrs ago

"Darling don't play that embarrassing song, the gay national anthem."

"Sweetheart that's why I got so many (insert slur) voters. They couldn't help themselves! They heard that (slur) national anthem and they just couldn't stop voting for me. I'm the king of the (slur) votes!"

PatSeg

(53,575 posts)
10. He cracks me up
Sat May 23, 2026, 10:31 AM
3 hrs ago

Every time he brings up conversations with his wife, she is calling him "Darling". That is the first indication that he's just making shit up and the second indication would be he is Donald Trump.

His alleged conversations are like something from a really bad 1940s movie script.

BumRushDaShow

(172,431 posts)
20. Like Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sat May 23, 2026, 01:05 PM
47 min ago




I expect his fantasy pin-up crush who checked all his boxes. Just like Ivana.

2na fisherman

(366 posts)
2. He Wants To Ban Gay Marriages
Sat May 23, 2026, 09:57 AM
3 hrs ago

His handpicked members of the Supreme Court and his Christian Nationalists seek to ban gay marriage. I doubt he did so well with this segment of the electorate. He's so delusional that he thinks making arm motions to a pop tune makes him gain support from gays.

Haggard Celine

(17,919 posts)
3. Just think if Pete Buttigieg was playing YMCA at his rallies
Sat May 23, 2026, 10:00 AM
3 hrs ago

and doing that double handjob dance that Trump does. Trump gets special treatment from the press. They're scared to death of being called piggies or fake news. They won't point out all the lies he tells. The press needs to be reformed as much as the government.

slightlv

(7,970 posts)
4. What an idiot!
Sat May 23, 2026, 10:04 AM
3 hrs ago

To think a single song represents everyone within a group, and that it adheres that group one to the other -- and then naturally to him. under this reasoning, I suppose he thinks "I Am Woman" is a female national anthem?! I say again... what an idiot. Play a "gay national anthem" while working to kill the civil rights of gays and others under that banner? He just likes to sway his little feet back and forth while rocking his tiny fists in the air, sometimes in rhythm to the beat of the music.... whether or not he's paid for the right to play it in the first place!

Somebody save us, please!

MiHale

(13,187 posts)
8. When I read her words...starting with Darling...
Sat May 23, 2026, 10:19 AM
3 hrs ago

in my head I hear her with Lisa’s voice …the woman from Green Acres.

ChazInAz

(3,033 posts)
17. I thought of Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Sat May 23, 2026, 11:55 AM
1 hr ago

"Borrris, dahlink, dvere is moose and skavirrel?"

relogic

(244 posts)
22. I'm getting the same vibes
Sat May 23, 2026, 01:28 PM
23 min ago

watching his over the top fastidious attention to his manly cosmetic persona and Freudian quips regarding Michael Angelo “David” fixations of profuse admiration of manly body parts.

You know, it’s hard to ignore there is more going on here than just pandering to “the gays” with “Y.M.C.A.” It’s also clearly a backhanded ridicule disguised as a twisted cultural awareness.

eringer

(545 posts)
12. He plays it
Sat May 23, 2026, 10:46 AM
3 hrs ago

Because he bought it at a discount (as a result of one of his great deals) for $2 million paying for it with the revenue he received from the morons that bought his “made in China” MAGA ball caps.

whopis01

(3,933 posts)
14. That really makes sense actually.
Sat May 23, 2026, 11:30 AM
2 hrs ago

I can’t think of the last time I had a conversation with a gay person where they weren’t primarily concerned with how often they heard YMCA being played.

Beyond that it probably garnered him a ton of votes from the DEI community as well. After all the band had representation from all sorts of ethnicities like Native Americans and Cowboys and Bikers and more.

(Obvious sarcasm tag just in case it is needed)

twodogsbarking

(19,388 posts)
18. This is not breaking news. Trump is beyond fucking crazy. Mr. Reaper, where in the heck are you? Golfing?
Sat May 23, 2026, 12:02 PM
1 hr ago

You might catch him there. He's the one with the yam face and a sack of "potatoes" in his pants.

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