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Donald Trump dances and fist-pumps to YMCA again, Internet wonders if his team even knows it's a 'gay anthem'

Trump was seen busting some moves at the Senate runoff rally for first time since the last night of his presidential rally

POTUS Donald Trump's presidential campaign anthem made somewhat of a comeback on Monday night, January 4 as he did his dad dance on stage to the song YMCA. 

Trump was seen dancing while at the YMCA at the Senate runoff rally located in Dalton, Georgia. Trump was seen breaking out into some awkward shuffling moves while fist-pumping to the Village People song at a rally which was held to rally support for the two GOP candidates, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. 

The anthem and Trump's dance have become a highlight with Trump's rallies in the lead up to the 2020 election. Trump had made it a tradition of closing out each event with a boogie. However, on Monday, Trump was seen dancing for the first time since the last presidential campaign prior to losing the election to president-elect Joe Biden.

Many social media users took to commenting on the return of the dance with many saying that Trump and his supporters must still not know "what the song is about" given it is a well-known song amongst the LGBTQ+ community. One such user shared, "Am I the only one enjoying that Trump and his entire audience don't get the YMCA reference?"

Another user added, "It still baffles me why they insist on playing a gay anthem to a crowd of homophobes." Yet another shared, "Classic joke off step. I may never be aroused again. Idk if that's proper English, but there it is. I hate seeing him dance."

"I find it ironic that Donald ends his rallies with a gay anthem song about consensual anonymous sex amongst random men at the YMCA. Are his Cult45 followers aware of this too or just ignorant?" another user who echoed the same sentiments chimed in.

Another added, "F*ck off. Fix your dentures, your speech is faltering. You loser. PS. Using YMCA as your stick dance song (which celebrated gay sex in the steam room) is really f*cking stupid don't you think?" 

Back in October, the Village People's lead singer Victor Scorpio spoke to BBC and said that he had asked Trump to stop playing his songs and music at presidential rallies and had even threatened to take legal action against Trump. However, in November, Wilis had said that would let Trump keep playing the song and won't file a lawsuit. 

At the rally, Trump spent much of his time focused on his own White House loss and said, "Hello Georgia. By the way, there's no way we lost Georgia. That was a rigged election. But we're still fighting it. And you'll see what's going to happen. We'll talk about it." 

He added, "You know I've had two elections, I've won both of them, it's amazing. And I actually did much better in the second one." 

We had earlier reported that Trump was heard on an hour-long call with the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat on Saturday, January 2. Trump was heard pressuring Raffensperger and other officials to look for enough votes in the state's presidential election so that he can be declared the winner, according to a shocking audio clip that was obtained by CBS News. During the call, Trump told Raffensperger, "All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."