Overview
- Speaking at the Kennedy Center in Washington, he said, “My wife hates it when I do that,” referring to his onstage dances.
- He recounted that Melania calls the routines “unpresidential” and criticized his weightlifter pantomime of a transgender athlete as “terrible.”
- He defended the performances as crowd-pleasing, saying audiences yell “Dance, please!” and that the room “goes crazy.”
- He said Melania asked whether one could imagine Franklin D. Roosevelt dancing, which he brushed off by noting, “But I became president.”
- The episode coincided with comments on transgender sports, set against his January 2025 directive barring transgender women and girls from female school teams.