{"id":30260,"date":"2026-07-02T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30260"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:28:13","slug":"trumps-claim-after-victor-willis-death-raises-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30260","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Claim After Victor Willis\u2019 Death Raises Eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"405\">Victor Willis, the lead singer of the Village People, has died at the age of 74, according to a statement from the band. Following the news, former U.S. President Donald Trump issued condolences and made comments about the singer\u2019s relationship with his use of the group\u2019s hit song <em data-start=\"375\" data-end=\"383\">\u201cYMCA\u201d<\/em> at political rallies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"407\" data-end=\"679\">The Village People confirmed Willis\u2019s death on social media, saying he passed away after a short but aggressive illness. Willis was best known as one of the defining voices of the disco era and co-writer of global hits including <em data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"658\">\u201cYMCA,\u201d \u201cMacho Man,\u201d<\/em> and <em data-start=\"663\" data-end=\"679\">\u201cIn the Navy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"681\" data-end=\"981\">Trump reacted on Truth Social, describing Willis as someone who \u201cloved\u201d hearing <em data-start=\"761\" data-end=\"769\">\u201cYMCA\u201d<\/em> used at rallies and saying the song became a \u201cmonster hit\u201d again years after its release. His remarks come despite previous statements from Willis and the band saying they had asked Trump not to use their music.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"1153\">Willis had previously said he never formally endorsed any political candidate, even though the song became widely associated with Trump\u2019s campaign events in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Willis, the lead singer of the Village People, has died at the age of 74, according to a statement from the band. Following the news, former U.S. President Donald Trump issued condolences and made comments about the singer\u2019s relationship with his use of the group\u2019s hit song \u201cYMCA\u201d at political rallies. The Village People&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30260\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump\u2019s Claim After Victor Willis\u2019 Death Raises Eyebrows&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30262,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260\/revisions\/30262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}