At a rally on Friday, Donald Trump claimed he did “well” among gay voters in the 2024 election [that’s a lie] because he played The Village People’s “YMCA” at his rallies.
The Donald began by sharing that First Lady Melania Trump had asked him not recite some of his regular rally lines including his “impersonation” of a transgender weight-lifter.
“She says, ‘Darling, please, you speak so beautifully, would you do me a favor? Don’t do the swimming story. Don’t do the weight-lifting story. It’s so damn unpresidential. And also, darling, when you’re leaving, and they have that song, gay national anthem.”
“That’s why I did so well with the gay vote, I think, because of that song. I did great with the gay vote, better than any Republican’s ever done by far, but my wife, first lady, very elegant woman.”
Fact-check: Trump did not do “well” with the LGBTQ vote. An NBC News exit poll on election day in 2024 found former Vice President Kamala Harris won 86% of the LGBTQ vote while Trump garnered just 12% of queer voters’ support. That’s even worse than he did in the 2020 election.
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Trump: “The gay national anthem — that’s why I did so well with the gay vote, because of that song” pic.twitter.com/9l7LJkQKUW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2026
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