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Joanna Taylor
Oct 19, 2020

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Ivanka Trump has been criticised for encouraging her husband to dance to the YMCA.
Jared Kushner was spotted clapping along to The Village People song at a Trump rally in Wisconsin.
He was gently reproached by Trump, who described his lack of dance moves as a "party foul".
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But, as people were quick to point out, nobody should really be partying or dancing in huge crowds during a pandemic. And particularly not in the presence of the very person whose job it is to try to mitigate that pandemic's effects.
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Recently, Trump has blasted 'Y.M.C.A.' and 'Macho Man' all around his campaign trail.
Since recovering from coronavirus, he has celebrated his "immunity" with cringe-worthy Dad dancing. (It doesn't seem to matter to Trump that it is possible to catch coronavirus more than once.)
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Ivanka also joined in on this admitting that she 'loves it' despite not realising that some of these memes are mocking the president.
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Nobody has any idea why.
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But The Village People have tried to put a stop to it, with frontman Victor Willis calling on the president to retire their songs.
Whatever Trump's reasoning, it's pretty offensive that he appropriated an iconic LGBTQ+ anthem and danced along to it as more Americans die from coronavirus.
That's not behaviour Ivanka Trump, or anyone else should be encouraging.
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