From Jon Jones to the NFL, and even to China: when Donald Trump is there, athletes dance

From Jon Jones to the NFL, and even to China: when Donald Trump is there, athletes dance

Little punches thrown alternately, hips waddling, an uncle’s pout that has macerated throughout an entire marriage, all done to the music of Y.M.C.A Village People to complete the work. You’re holding Donald Trump’s signature dance move, which he has performed time and time again during his political rallies. First mostly mocked, it is now imitated as far as China, where it is a hit on social networks, but also as celebrations by professional athletes in the United States.

It was fighter Jon Jones, the current heavyweight champion and living legend of the UFC (MMA), who struck first, after his victory by knockout. Saturday against Stipe Miocic. A sequence which quickly went viral while senior MAGA dignitaries were in the audience, Donald Trump in the lead, but also Elon Musk, UFC president Dana White, Robert F. Kennedy Jr and even singer Kid Rock. Blessed bread for the president-elect, “never shy of a compliment, who rejoiced in this moment and quickly put Jon Jones’ performance online on his Truth Social account,” writes the New York Times.

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