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President Donald Trump mentioned Tuesday in an tackle earlier than Republican lawmakers that first girl Melania Trump isn’t any fan of when he dances in public, calling it “not presidential.”
“My spouse hates after I do that,” Trump mentioned Tuesday on the Kennedy Middle throughout an tackle on the Home GOP Member Retreat.
“She’s a really stylish particular person, proper? She mentioned, ‘It is so unpresidential.’ I mentioned, ‘however I did grow to be president.’ … She hates after I dance. I mentioned, ‘All people needs me to bounce.’”
‘”Darling, it is not presidential,” he continued of what the primary girl tells him.
Trump dancing grew to become a trademark of 2024 marketing campaign rallies, with Trump routinely kicking off and ending public occasions by dancing, often whereas the Village Folks’s “Y.M.C.A” or Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the usA.” blasted within the background. The signature dance sometimes contains Trump making a fist and shimmying his arms forwards and backwards whereas pointing to individuals within the crowd.
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President Donald Trump dances on the finish of the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup on the Kennedy Middle in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Picture by way of AP)
The president has beforehand talked about the primary girl didn’t approve of his rally dancing, recounting to crowds of supporters in 2023 in Iowa that: “She mentioned, ‘Darling, I like you, I like you, however this isn’t presidential. You don’t dance off the stage. This isn’t presidential.'”
Trump continued Tuesday that the primary girl had pressed him that previous presidents didn’t dance solo on political phases, pointing to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for instance of how presidents ought to conduct themselves.
“She truly mentioned, ‘Might you think about FDR dancing,’” he continued. “She mentioned that to me.”
“And I mentioned, ‘There is a lengthy historical past that maybe she does not know as a result of he was a sublime fellow, whilst a Democrat.”
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President Donald Trump mentioned Jan. 6, 2026, that first girl Melania Trump isn’t any fan of his public dancing on stage. (Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs)
“He was fairly elegant, however he would not be doing this. However nor would too many others. However she mentioned, ‘Darling, please, the weightlifting is horrible.’ And I’ve to say this, the dancing, they actually like,” Trump mentioned of supporters who take pleasure in his rally dance routines.
“She mentioned, ‘They do not prefer it. They’re simply being good to you,'” Trump recounted.
“‘I mentioned, that is not proper,” he continued.
Trump’s feedback on the primary girl’s dislike of his dancing got here amid him impersonating weightlifters whereas discussing organic males competing in opposition to organic females. Trump has mentioned in public earlier than that Melania Trump doesn’t approve of him imitating weightlifters, in addition to dancing throughout political occasions.
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Trump’s tackle earlier than the group of Republican lawmakers follows a historic and busy weekend, when he confirmed the U.S. army carried out a profitable strike in Venezuela and captured the nation’s dictatorial president, Nicolás Maduro, and his spouse.

President Donald Trump dances at a marketing campaign occasion on the Cobb Power Performing Arts Centre, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (John Bazemore, File/The Related Press )
The pair, in addition to others entrenched within the regime, have been charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy fees. The couple pleaded not responsible in a New York Metropolis court docket Monday and are being held in a jail in Brooklyn.
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Tuesday’s occasion, nevertheless, is extra targeted on the social gathering’s agenda for the approaching yr, as lawmakers put together for the wild midterm season that can decide up steam within the coming months.
Trump capped off his tackle by clapping and dancing to the “Y.M.C.A.” as he walked off stage.