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As anyone over the age of, oh, 12 can tell you, what seems cool today will make you cringe in the future. Hairstyles, clothes, trends, sayings — at some point, you’ll look back and regret your life choices. What made me think that was a good look? I posted that? Why didn’t somebody tell me that was a bad idea?
So it will be with athletes and their “Trump dance” celebrations.
Actually, mimicking president-elect Donald Trump’s dance moves looks dumb in the moment. Jerking your arms while slowly swaying your hips as if you’re an awkward and uncoordinated octogenarian robot.
But the real dismay will come when athletes realize exactly what it was they were glorifying and what these celebrations normalized. Not the true believers like Nick Bosa and Jon Jones. The others, who thought they were only following a trend and didn’t give much thought to what they were endorsing.
“It was just a dance that everyone’s doing. He’s the one who created it. I just thought it was funny,” Christian Pulisic said after doing the dance as his goal celebration in the U.S. men’s national team’s 4-2 win over Jamaica on Monday night.
“It’s not a political dance. It was just for fun. I saw a bunch of people do it and I thought it was funny, so I enjoyed it. I hope some people did, at least.”
Sure. It’s all fun and games until people start getting deported. Until our Constitution is set on fire so alleged sexual predators can get Cabinet appointments. Until the economy tanks because of tax cuts for billionaires and tariffs that Americans pay for.
