The New Yorker:

It’s not clear whether the popular gesture is celebrating the President-elect or mocking him. But does that distinction even mean anything?

By Louisa Thomas

On November 10th, after the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive end Nick Bosa sacked Baker Mayfield during the 49ers’ game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, another defensive lineman, Leonard Floyd, came over to Bosa and gently butted helmets. Then Floyd bent his elbows at his side and began to sway, in a kind of cross between a shimmy and a shadowbox, and gave Bosa a little encouraging punch. A third teammate, Sam Okuayinonu, ran over to join in. Bosa used his right arm to clear some space, craned his neck forward, and arrhythmically jerked his arms and knees. He looked like a man with a rod in his spine doing the twist, or a robot trying to walk through a wall, or a constipated chicken—or like Donald Trump, when the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” comes on.

Later in the week, the 49ers coach, Kyle Shanahan, was asked about Bosa’s moves in a radio interview. “His dance? That was the Trump dance,” Shanahan said. “I don’t know what the Trump dance is, but it’s supposedly the Trump dance.” It wasn’t Bosa’s idea to use it as a celebration, Shanahan went on. “When Bosa got the sack, Leonard Floyd started doing it, and then Trump did it—I mean, sorry, then Bosa did it.” (Honest mistake.) “And then Sam [Okuayinonu] did it, and then Fred [Warner] came in at the end and did it,” Shanahan said. “Leonard egged them all on, and then they followed, and it was pretty cool to see.”

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