Donald Trump Shows Off 'Signature Dance Moves' in Video With Barron

Over the years Donald Trump has developed a signature dance move—and now he's shown it off during an outing with his son Barron Trump.

A clip was posted to X, formerly Twitter, by Ron Filipkowski, a Trump critic and the editor-in-chief of the independent news network MeidasTouch. In the video, Trump enters a restaurant as people cheer him on. In response, he dances by moving his clenched fists back and forth while his son trails behind him.

"Trump arrives at Easter dinner with Barron showing off his signature dance moves," Filipkowski captioned the post. At the time of writing, it had been viewed nearly 700,000 times.

Newsweek emailed a Trump spokesperson for comment on Tuesday.

People took to the comments to share how sorry they feel for Barron Trump, with many saying he looks "embarrassed."

"Poor kid. I bet he can't wait to go away to college," one person wrote.

"Barron's like, 'I don't know this man,'" another X user theorized.

"Barron doesn't look comfortable. Just kind of: 'lemme go that way now...' and he walks off," said a different user.

A fourth person added: "The kid looks embarrassed. With good reason."

"So Barron has been sucked into this murky world?" someone else asked.

Others took the opportunity to criticize the former president's dance moves.

"Those were dance moves? I thought Trump was having a seizure," one person wrote.

"Those spastic, jerky, erratic, non-rhythmic movements can NEVER be classified as 'dance moves'. His feet are stapled to the floor so he doesn't fall over on his face and bruise his ego!" said another.

However, others were appreciative of the video, with one person writing: "TY I love this! They look great!"

This isn't the first time that Trump, the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee, has had his dancing go viral online.

In March, Filipkowski posted a different video of Trump in which he can be seen dancing onstage by moving his clenched fists back and forth while audience members cheer him on.

"Mar-a-Lago last night. Such a weird cult," Filipkowski captioned the clip, which had 333,100 views at the time of writing.

In February, a video of Trump dancing with cheerleaders before the Super Bowl was posted to X by Margo Martin, the former president's deputy director of communications.

"President @realDonaldTrump is greeted by local high school band at Trump International Golf Course prior to Super Bowl kickoff!!" she captioned the clip, which was posted on February 11. At the time of writing, the video had been viewed 4.6 million times.

Trump's dance moves were previously criticized by former first lady Melania Trump. During his address to the California Republican Party on September 29, 2023, the former president revealed his wife had called out his dancing and storytelling for being "unpresidential."

While addressing the subject of men and women in sport, he recounted a golf trip with former NFL player Brian Urlacher. Trump then told a story about a female weightlifter and moved to impersonate her, but caught himself and stopped.

He said: "I don't want to imitate her. As you know, my wife, the first lady, hates when I do this. She said, 'It's not presidential.' And I said yeah, 'But people like it.'"

The audience cheered and laughed as he resumed: "She said it's not presidential, and I understand. She also has two things, that, and she doesn't like when I dance a little bit to the [campaign] music."

He pumped his fists into the air and briefly showed off one of his moves before adding: "I said I have a problem because everybody wants it. They are screaming 'dance, dance, dance.'"