Trump said people go “crazy” at campaign events where he encourages dancing, but his wife told him she was just being nice.
Watch Argentina’s president perform the ‘Trump dance’ at Mar-a-Lago
Argentina’s President Javier Millay performed the Republican favorite “Trump Dance” at a CPAC event at Mar-a-Lago.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump confessed that first lady Melania Trump doesn’t necessarily like his campaign.
He urged House Republicans to campaign in this year’s midterm elections around his priorities, including opposition to transgender athletes participating in women’s sports. But Trump said he had to tone down his performance because he imitated a female weightlifter who grimaced to compete with a transgender rival.
President Trump drew laughter by saying, “My wife doesn’t like it when I do this.” “She’s a very classy person. She said, ‘It’s very unpresidential.'” But I said, ‘Yes, it’s presidential.’ ”
Dance is also a point of contention. Mr. Trump frequently flexes his arms and sways to songs such as “YMCA” at the end of campaign events. The act became so widespread that soccer players imitated him after a touchdown and Argentine President Javier Millay blocked an attack at Mar-a-Lago.
But Melania Trump told her husband it wasn’t for her.
“She doesn’t want me to dance,” Trump said. He reported that the first lady said, “Darling, that’s not the president.”
The first lady appealed to President Trump’s understanding of history, citing former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s failure to dance.
“In fact, she said, ‘Can you imagine FDR dancing?'” Trump added. “I said he probably had a long history that she didn’t know about because he was an elegant guy even though he was a Democrat.”
FDR suffered from polio and used a wheelchair during his presidency.
Trump said his wife told him that people don’t like watching him dance, but that they’re just being nice to him. But Trump insisted that people like to see him dance.
President Trump said, “The scene has gone crazy.” “I want to be more exaggerated,” he added, but “there are people watching.”
