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President Donald Trump’s dancing has always been divisive (even First Lady Melania Trump thinks it can be inappropriate), but now that he continues to dance amid the war against Iran, he’s facing even more criticism. A clip from a French news network’s broadcast has gone viral on social media because it shows this disturbing contrast via a side-by-side comparison.
On one side, there are bombings in Iran. On the other side, Trump is dancing to “Y.M.C.A.” at a Kentucky rally. Some people think his dancing during the Kentucky rally (and later with Jake Paul) sadly says it all.
People see it as the perfect representation of what’s going on.
Meanwhile a French news channel is showing a split screen of Trump doing his stupid dance at his Kentucky rally the other night and the other side of bombings on Iran….our news media should take notes! pic.twitter.com/qoqiiWDxn8
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) March 13, 2026
According to Mediaite, the clip comes from French news station La Chaîne Info. The text beneath the side-by-side footage reads, “Oil tanker in flames: Rescue operation underway.” And although it’s disturbing to see, a lot of people online are praising the French news outlet for its honest coverage.
One viral post from X account Wu Tang is for the Children reads, “Meanwhile a French news channel is showing a split screen of Trump doing his stupid dance at his Kentucky rally the other night and the other side of bombings on Iran….our news media should take notes!”
After seeing the post, one person concluded, “Thanks to Trump and his team, the U.S. has become a worldwide laughingstock.” A lot of people also found it embarrassing. Another person on BlueSky wrote, “I’m embarrassed to be an American. I’m sorry world, most of us hate this clown.”
It also says a lot about Trump.
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) March 12, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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Trump has already been criticized for the casual way in which he’s talked about people dying because of the war. Previously, in an overly casual and seemingly detached tone, he said, “The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war.”
Later, he was also questioned about whether Americans should be worried about retaliation. He said, “I guess. But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”
And now, in what some critics sees as a visual representation of his callousness, he’s dancing. Reacting to a video from Trump’s rally, one person wrote, “Trump is out there dancing while families receive casualty notifications and troops fight for their lives in hospital beds. It’s tone‑deaf, oblivious, and shows a man who either can’t read the room or simply refuses to.”
Another X user, Anna Neumann, shared the split-screen and wrote, “This split screen by French television channel LCI is telling you all you need to know about Donald Trump in a very honest way: While hundreds of people are dying in wars around the globe, the president of the United States is dancing.”
He previously suggested that Melania warned him about his dancing.
America during wartime. https://t.co/FNh80GvPCM
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) March 11, 2026
He did not appear to take his wife’s advice that seriously. Earlier this year, Trump admitted that Melania finds his dancing “unpresidential” at times (like during a war, perhaps?) “My wife hates when I do this,” he said at the time. “She’s a very classy person, right? She said, ‘It’s so unpresidential.’ I said, ‘But I did become president.'”
Trump tried to tell his wife that “everybody wants [him] to dance,” while she allegedly said, “Darling, it’s not presidential.”
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