Village People to 'Hang Out with All the Boys' at Trump's Inauguration

"You know what gets 'em rockin'? 'Y.M.C.A.,'" Donald Trump said on a podcast in 2022. "'YMCA,' the gay national anthem. Did you ever hear that? 'Y.M.C.A.' gets people up and it gets them moving."

And will likely do so at the Presidential Inauguration next week where the Village People will be performing. No doubt the President-elect will do his goofy "Trump Dance" to the song to the delight of his fans.

But the song itself has remained at the center of debate over it being the "gay national anthem," so much so that even one of its co-creators, Village People lead singer Victor Willis, disagrees with Trump. And it appears the song has gone through its own kind of conversion therapy.

Vanity Fair reports, "In December, Willis claimed on Facebook that calling "Y.M.C.A." a gay anthem is "a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner [Jacques Morali, who died in 1991] was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life." Apparently you can't do whatever you feel with "Y.M.C.A."–according to Willis, it's regarded as a gay anthem only "to shame the president-elect's use of the song."

"Get your minds out of the gutter," he added.