Village People singer defends and thanks Trump for using his ‘YMCA’ song

Published December 4, 2024 7:58pm ET



Victor Willis, lead singer of the music group the Village People, wrote a lengthy defense of President-elect Donald Trump using his hit song “Y.M.C.A.” and corrected the belief that the song was a “gay anthem.”

Willis explained in his Facebook post on Monday that he had initially asked Trump to “stop using Y.M.C.A. because his use had become a nuissance” to him since 2020 due to “the thousands” of fan complaints that he received over the presidential campaign’s usage of the song.

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