![]() ![]() ♬ Better When I’m Dancin’ – Meghan Trainor “And it made me think, interesting how I fit the mold they wanted to see.”Įditor’s is ✨not✨ what I intended #trump #trumpdancechallenge #trumpdance #vote #biden2020 “Someone was saying, if you weren’t white would be very clear,” says Keith. ![]() It didn’t help that, with her long, tousled blond hair, preppy Vermont sweatshirt and white skin, Keith looks like the stereotypical Trump supporter (or at least, what Trump supporters wished the stereotypical Trump supporter looked like). Trump-supporting parents started tagging their children in the video, saying they wished their own kids could be more like Keith. To those on the right, Trump’s dad moves weren’t just awkward, but endearing Keith’s dance didn’t seem like mockery, but homage. She watched in real time as the “TikTok For You” algorithm, which feeds users content based on who they follow or what they’ve previously engaged with, started to feed her video to conservative TikTok users, as reflected by the comments on the post skewing further right. “And half of the comments were, ‘Trump 2020.'” “Half of the comments were, ‘I can’t believe that’s our president,'” she says. Then she started noticing something odd about the comments. ![]() tugboat_spenny is OG spinner – Mingaling 2.0Īt first, Keith says, the video seemed to be enjoying a fairly straightforward path to virality the next day, she woke up and saw it had gotten two million views. Her video has since gone massively viral, racking up 6.5 million views on TikTok but also circulating on platforms like Twitter and Facebook - and she’s watched with horror as the trend has been embraced not by those mocking the president’s lame-o moves, but by his most ardent supporters, including his own daughter, leading Keith to become what she refers to as an “accidental MAGA icon.” with This just might be the hardest tik tok dance I’ve ever done On October 17th, she posted a duet of her copying Trump’s idiosyncratic gestures down to the letter, adding a mashup of Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” and Savage’s “Swing” on top. “I was just making fun of this extremely white dance.” I truly could not get his movements down.” Still, “I had no really political agenda,” says Keith, a Biden supporter. “I’ve done 15 years of classical ballet,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I swear, it was so hard to figure out. There are a lot of questions raised by the video: What is Trump saying? Why does he seem constitutionally incapable of moving his feet? If “YMCA” was playing, why didn’t he just do the dance to “YMCA,” instead of….whatever that was?īut Julia Keith, a 26-year-old video editor based in Los Angeles, was just thinking one thing: She had to learn his dance then duet it before it went viral. This is the dance President Trump recently did at a Florida rally as the Village People’s “YMCA” blared in the background. Conclude by stretching your arms out, as if to offer benediction to no one, before pointing authoritatively at nothing. ![]() Jerk your elbows back and forth haphazardly, then pump your first and purse your lips like a drunk dad doing their best Mick Jagger at a bar mitzvah. To do the Trump challenge, start as follows: swivel your torso from side to side in the approximate manner of a malfunctioning animatronic figure, while simultaneously making your arms look like little chicken wings. ![]()
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