Althouse: The South Korean band plays "YMCA" for Trump.

October 29, 2025

The South Korean band plays "YMCA" for Trump.

Omg the South Korean band is greeting Trump at the airport with YMCA. 😭

The ultimate sign of respect. pic.twitter.com/Up1DvTcYUO
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 29, 2025

100 comments:

bagoh20 said...: Dammit! Stop that!; 10/29/25, 10:49 AM
MikeD said...: He was also gifted a yuge Golden Crown by S.Korea's President.; 10/29/25, 10:50 AM
rehajm said...: they didn’t know any lee greenwood…; 10/29/25, 10:54 AM
rhhardin said...: There are some super skorean string quartets and pianists that would be more impressive. Dedication to western cultural values displayed.; 10/29/25, 10:55 AM
doctrev said...: Well, you have to admire a people who actually get President Trump. It's more than the dullards of the left have managed.; 10/29/25, 10:57 AM
n.n said...: Dancing in Malaysia. Singing in Korea. Trump is having a gay old time.; 10/29/25, 10:59 AM
TosaGuy said...: I could see Trump get down and having fun with Gangnam Style.; 10/29/25, 10:59 AM
Original Mike said...: Trump should do an EO changing Hail to the Chief to YMCA.; 10/29/25, 11:07 AM
Inga said...: They were trolling him. He’s not popular in South Korea after the ICE raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia.; 10/29/25, 11:11 AM
wsw said...: It Takes a Village, people.; 10/29/25, 11:12 AM
stunned said...: They should have played this -
https://youtu.be/GC5E8ie2pdM?si=lpa3h3VKZm1SNDXB; 10/29/25, 11:13 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Gangnam Style Village People; 10/29/25, 11:13 AM
bagoh20 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/29/25, 11:15 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Must be hard to wake up so sour and mad at the world. Our president is making deals, having fun, being treated very well by allies and all the left has is sour grapes, wishing Trump were treated poorly, growing ever sour because the world loves him. Yep must be hard to be LIV lefty.; 10/29/25, 11:15 AM
bagoh20 said...: "Kakistocracy said...
Bagoh20 writes: "The recent market drop puts it where it was last year at this time."

The refusal to distinguish between a 20% drop over 6 months and a 15% drop in 3 days is extraordinarily foolish.

In 2022, we did not have a president who was trying to blow up the global trading system that the market's valuation was predicated on. Now we do."
4/7/25

Today NASDAQ is up 57% from that day, and the President is closing the biggest trade deals in history all over the World on a daily basis.; 10/29/25, 11:17 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: The world is not
As I wish it to be
So I don't like the world
Far as I can see; 10/29/25, 11:17 AM
Original Mike said...: "They were trolling him."

Whatever gets you through the night, Inga.; 10/29/25, 11:19 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/29/25, 11:25 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: For whom does the YMCA troll if not for thee?; 10/29/25, 11:25 AM
rehajm said...: I’ve been by that Hyundai plant on the interstate. Massive. Seemed like we’d been driving for ten minutes and it was still there…; 10/29/25, 11:26 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Our first Gay President. 🏳️‍🌈; 10/29/25, 11:30 AM
RNB said...: Inga wrote: "He’s not popular in South Korea after the ICE raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia." And yet Trump criticized the raid. Ah, well. No winning with some people.; 10/29/25, 11:38 AM
tcrosse said...: I predicted a few days ago that the Big Beautiful Ballroom would see the revival of Disco. All is proceeding as I have foreseen; 10/29/25, 11:46 AM
Disparity of Cult said...: An actual trolling would not be complete without a performance from a K-pop group cosplaying as displaced Hyundai plant workers.; 10/29/25, 11:53 AM
D.D. Driver said...: "I predicted a few days ago that the Big Beautiful Ballroom would see the revival of Disco. All is proceeding as I have foreseen."

There are rumors are that Baron is dating a male dance instructor. 🕺; 10/29/25, 11:54 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: "He's not popular blah blah..."

Meanwhile in the real world: "Aug 26, 2025 — Hyundai Motor Group to invest USD 26 billion in the U.S. from 2025 to 2028; The investment is expected to expand the Group's footprint in the USA..."

This one's even better: The New York Times Oct 20, 2025 — Headline "After an ICE Raid in Rural Georgia, Hyundai Keeps Betting on America"
"Hyundai Motor Group, which includes Kia and dozens of other affiliates and suppliers, plans to spend $26 billion in the United States through ..."; 10/29/25, 11:54 AM
bagoh20 said...: "Our first Gay President. 🏳️‍🌈"

Not that there's anything wrong with that.; 10/29/25, 12:01 PM
Limited blogger said...: It is indeed a Golden Age; 10/29/25, 12:03 PM
n.n said...: Gay, yes. Albinophobic, no.; 10/29/25, 12:04 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: "There are rumors are that Baron is dating a male dance instructor. 🕺"

Situational concern over rumored Cha-cha-cha; 10/29/25, 12:18 PM
Big Mike said...: Whom is he meeting there at the end of the red carpet? Must be important since Trump didn't start dancing.; 10/29/25, 12:18 PM
Inga said...: https://www.newsweek.com/south-koreans-launch-anti-trump-protest-outside-hotel-10956846

“The protests come amid strained U.S. relations with South Korea. Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained more than 300 South Koreans in raids at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. Lee said South Korean businesses would be "very hesitant" about investing in the U.S. after the raid, which he called "extremely bewildering."”; 10/29/25, 12:20 PM
Inga said...: "”I don't think the relationship between the US and Korea is necessarily broken at this point," said 23-year-old Hye-yeon Lee as the protest outside the US embassy came to an end.

"Although I do think it is being eroded significantly," she added.
The White House has also increased its demands as part of the trade talks - Trump is now pushing for cash investments in the US. Despite attempts to get a deal signed, there is no final agreement and hopes of reaching one when the two leaders meet on Wednesday are not high.

"South Korea has a huge amount on the line in terms of their prosperity and their security with this visit, but in a funny way, the less time Donald Trump is here could be better for President Lee Jae-myung," says John Delury, a senior fellow at the Asia Society's Centre on US-China relations.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7eyg0808xo; 10/29/25, 12:26 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Surprise! Rent-a-mobs have an outlet in SK. Big whoop! The rest of us are celebrating trade deals that relieve the rare earths shortage while you leftists cheer on the unseen unheard nobody cares "protesters."; 10/29/25, 12:27 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: OMG a 23-year-old has thoughts! Stop the presses! Derp.; 10/29/25, 12:27 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Ah the unemployed from Foggy Bottom lash out at the State Department struggling to work without his expertise: "a senior fellow at the Asia Society's Centre on US-China relations."

Must be a serious fellow! Even his quotes are in the King's English. Again, nobody cares what these diplomatic failures have to say about the most successful president ever in turning shit around.; 10/29/25, 12:30 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior fellow; 10/29/25, 12:34 PM
Peachy said...: Democrats are demanding South Korea be nuked.; 10/29/25, 12:35 PM
Peachy said...: Newsweek and BBC.
Both Bullshit.

My father used to travel around the world for business. One of the most pro-American nations on planet earth is South Korea. Nothing new.

But the corrupt asshole left media must find a scab. Fuck off.; 10/29/25, 12:37 PM
Peachy said...: btw - my father was not some elite globalist globe trotter. His business required international sales.
The news media (D) must slant everything - and much reality is omitted.
The BBC is dead to me - because they are the most openly and unapologetically Anti-Semitic.; 10/29/25, 12:41 PM
Peachy said...: China is not South Korea - Newsweek assholes.; 10/29/25, 12:44 PM
Howard said...: They were hoping he would spontaneously break out into the gay anthem dance.; 10/29/25, 12:50 PM
Lazarus said...: If this means that "gay" and "fạggọt" aren't the internet's go-to insults and innuendos anymore, it's all for the good.; 10/29/25, 12:57 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/29/25, 1:06 PM
Eva Marie said...: “There are rumors are that Baron is dating a male dance instructor”
Once again liberal values on display.
“We love gays . . . but (snicker) (snicker)
It’s still a free country. Baron should do what he wants without snickers from the lefties.; 10/29/25, 1:09 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: "Dedication to western cultural values displayed."... or something.; 10/29/25, 1:11 PM
Eva Marie said...: Peachy said “China is not South Korea - Newsweek assholes”
However, I bet the Chinese people love him.; 10/29/25, 1:14 PM
bagoh20 said...: One of the less discussed symptoms of severe TDS is an instantaneous desire to drink up the swill of foreign anti-American leftists at the first whiff of it's stale moldy scent. It gives the patient a sense of wellbeing due to the induced hallucinations of their own nation being publicly disrespected. This is short-lived as the desire for more swill returns quickly.; 10/29/25, 1:42 PM
Marty said...: Even more impressive, the version that the SK band is playing is anything but watery Caesarist.; 10/29/25, 1:55 PM
narciso said...: His repurposing of the songs dance moves; 10/29/25, 1:56 PM
narciso said...: The current pm is a leftist who is persecuting christians; 10/29/25, 1:57 PM
bagoh20 said...: "President Trump Becomes the Only American to Receive South Korea’s Highest Honor..."
https://joehoft.com/president-trump-becomes-the-only-american-to-receive-south-koreas-highest-honor-the-grand-order-of-mugunghwa/; 10/29/25, 1:58 PM
TheThinManReturns said...: tcrosse: we need mash up that includes Ballroom Blitz
ready Steve? Uhhuh, Mitch? Yeah! Andy? Ok…; 10/29/25, 1:58 PM
bagoh20 said...: Make Mugunghwa Great Again!; 10/29/25, 1:59 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Eva- yes.
Nations and people who have broken free from the tyrannical control of leftist communism - love the USA - esp when like-minded leaders (not democrats) are in charge.; 10/29/25, 1:59 PM
TheThinManReturns said...: Alright fellas, let’s gooo; 10/29/25, 2:01 PM
Peachy+2 said...: "stale moldy scent" - Inag has it in spades. She cleans toilets at Penzy's.; 10/29/25, 2:03 PM
narciso said...: There are stupid self hating south koreans though; 10/29/25, 2:04 PM
Inga said...: Giving Trump a golden crown and necklace was more trolling. South Koreans aren’t stupid, they know how much Trump loves gold, crowns and flattery. The grin on the South Korean’s presidents face was hilarious.; 10/29/25, 2:32 PM
Rocco said...: rhhardin said...
“There are some super skorean string quartets and pianists that would be more impressive.”

Not Koreans, but… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TOeCCQvf8s; 10/29/25, 2:32 PM
Derve said...: He looks great!
Music more appropriate for a campaign rally
than a state visit, but God bless them for trying!
We need to be kind and extend the benefit of the doubt.
People should try to get along in this world. Not kill their enemies' children... The holocaust taught me that!; 10/29/25, 2:40 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: A dullard's secret troll, observed in Seoul.; 10/29/25, 2:40 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Classic Trump. Make a problem then claim he's solved it.

"Lee had earlier said that several “sticking points” remained, including the amount, method and timeline of the Korean investment."

So much of these announcements are difficult to square with financial reality. The reality will be much different, but Trump needs to sell his base on the idea that he’s a deal maker. He just needs everyone to agree that he’s the greatest deal maker. Forget reality.; 10/29/25, 2:42 PM
Jim at said...: He’s not popular in South Korea after the ICE raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia.

Good gawd. You could poll a thousand people in South Korea and I bet not a single one could tell you about some automobile plant in Georgia.

Do you ever consider just not saying anything?; 10/29/25, 3:22 PM
tcrosse said...: It's no great loss to Western Culture that Disco has died out, but it sure was fun to do the moves while it lasted.; 10/29/25, 3:27 PM
lonejustice said...: Well, at least there weren't any drag queens, transvestites, or cross-dressers present, so at least we can be thankful for that.; 10/29/25, 3:28 PM
rhhardin said...: South Korea Esme quarter doing intense study of Western culture.; 10/29/25, 3:29 PM
Maynard said...: South Koreans may not be stupid, but it is absurdly obvious that Igna is.

South Korea, like the Philippines loves America for giving the their freedom. I guess since Democrats have issues with freedom, they do not understand the love some countries have for America. Trump is America, except in the eyes of the nut jobs.; 10/29/25, 3:54 PM
D.D. Driver said...: "It’s still a free country. Baron should do what he wants without snickers from the lefties."

I'm not a lefty and I honestly don't care the nationality of the dance instructor that puts his dick in Baron: but I know it bothers the Trumpers. I just want Baron to be happy. He didn't pick his dad.

Honestly, I doubt DJT cares much if his son is gay either. I actually think he would be very supportive. But, his followers would lose their minds. It would be worse than that time Bad Bunny ate at the Cracker Barrel.; 10/29/25, 4:08 PM
Inga said...: America Asians don’t like Trump anymore… I wonder why?

“In their July poll of 1,935 adults, AtlasIntel found that 57 percent of Asian voters said they approved of Trump while 43 percent said they disapproved of him. This left him with a net approval rating of +14 percentage points.

At the time, Trump had announced tariffs on countries including Japan and South Korea but had also reached trade deals with Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia. The administration also announced an intention to double the number of Chinese students at U.S. universities.

By September, only 26 percent of Asian voters said they approved of the President while 75 percent said they disapproved—a net approval rating of -49 percentage points.
While the poll did not address why people's opinion of the president had soured, in September, as polling was being conducted, more than 300 South Korean workers were detained by U.S. authorities in Georgia, then returned home on 12 September, testing relations between the two countries.”

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-rating-asian-voters-10796319; 10/29/25, 4:11 PM
boatbuilder said...: Inga--do you even read the stuff you crib from?

This was a small rally by the standards of South Korea's vibrant protest culture. And it was not the only one under way. A few hundred metres to the north, at the gates of Gyeongbokgung palace, marchers held aloft more banners as they chanted a very different message.

"No China," along with a smattering of "CCP [Chinese Communist Party] out!". Again, the numbers - several hundred people - were not huge for South Korea.; 10/29/25, 4:22 PM
narciso said...: Talking out of their tukkus day ending in y; 10/29/25, 4:23 PM
narciso said...: Obviously she doesnt; 10/29/25, 4:25 PM
FullMoon said...: "Inga said...
Giving Trump a golden crown and necklace was more trolling. South Koreans aren’t stupid, they know how much Trump loves gold, crowns and flattery. The grin on the South Korean’s presidents face was hilarious."

The crown and necklace was playing along with the dozens of humorous memes Trump posse created mocking the no kings fiasco.; 10/29/25, 4:28 PM
bagoh20 said...: The whole never give Trump an inch thing is way past ridiculous at this point. I can't even express how satisfied and lucky I feel at not being stuck on that clown Hindenburg tethered to a Titanic full of pwned memege.; 10/29/25, 4:47 PM
Howard said...: What Korea is doing is kissing Trump's ass bigly. Because Trumpers are unable to distinguish themselves from Trump just like a baby cannot distinguish itself from its mother, by the transitive property the Koreans are kissing the ass of all of the troopers including most of the people commenting on this blog. Sycophantiphilia is a pathetic mental condition based on deep-seated insecurity sometimes caused by incipient narcissism.; 10/29/25, 5:00 PM
Curious George said...: Cut and paste Inga is the record holder of taking a stqannce , being wrong, and being proven wrong. She still Cut and pastes to try to recover but when then fails that fails. She is our resident dullard. But I do admire her effort her effort to show what a reterd she is.; 10/29/25, 5:02 PM
narciso said...: She'll find a pony some day (no she wont); 10/29/25, 5:06 PM
Jamie said...: What Korea is doing is kissing Trump's ass bigly.

And? What's the problem with that? Ah. You think it somehow affects Trump. Okaaaay...

Two hints for the left: 1. Embrace ellipses! They allow you to hide inconvenient facts like the age or position of the person making an anti-Trump statement. 2. Be aware that "loving" or "hating" a head of state has literally ZERO to do with whether you have to negotiate with that head of state.; 10/29/25, 5:24 PM
Peachy said...: Howard and Inag - you don't understand the History. So - do F off.; 10/29/25, 5:31 PM
Peachy said...: dumb american leftists sit around assuming everyone the world over- is obsessed with Trump hate like they are.; 10/29/25, 5:35 PM
narciso said...: https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/10/29/mehdi-hasan-marks-anniversary-of-beeper-joke-wonders-if-he-the-abused-is-also-banned-from-cnn-n2421006; 10/29/25, 5:44 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: why not use stair-chair while getting off plane and float down like Baron Harkonnen; 10/29/25, 5:45 PM
Inga said...: “Cut and paste Inga is the record holder of taking a stqannce , being wrong, and being proven wrong. She still Cut and pastes to try to recover but when then fails that fails. She is our resident dullard. But I do admire her effort her effort to show what a reterd she is.”

LOL, how about you rewrite that comment in English?; 10/29/25, 6:07 PM
Big Mike said...: Reports are filtering out that in last November’s illegal immigrants illegally voted — for Donald Trump! Jonathan V. Last, editor of The Bulwark, is on it. He suggests that Democrats spend “zero political capital” trying to block ICE deportations.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.; 10/29/25, 6:18 PM
narciso said...: Right (best dr evil impression); 10/29/25, 6:19 PM
Big Mike said...: Reading the lefty troll comments upthread it crosses my mind that if Trump achieved world peace, Kaki would write a couple paragraphs that would advance a learned-looking argument as to why world peace is actually a bad thing and why, consequently, Trump is actually an evil person.

And he still wouldn’t be given a Nobel Peace Prize.; 10/29/25, 6:24 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/_The_Prophet__/status/1983663988161573008; 10/29/25, 6:24 PM
narciso said...: The details of the deal; 10/29/25, 6:28 PM
Jamie said...: why not use stair-chair while getting off plane and float down like Baron Harkonnen

the OG (not counting the actual, inimitable novel) pimply gross one, or the recent one with dreamy Timothe or however the lad spells his name? Either way, I'm for it!; 10/29/25, 6:39 PM
narciso said...: They made skarsgaard the baron submerged in an oil tank; 10/29/25, 6:43 PM
Rosalyn C. said...: Nothing says trolling like giving someone the nation's highest honor in gold. Yeah, right.; 10/29/25, 7:28 PM
Clyde said...: Gotta love it!; 10/29/25, 7:29 PM
Chest Rockwell said...: I worked a golf tournament a few years ago for Genesis, the SK car company. At one point, one of the Genesis ceos came by to inspect the Genesis display and before he came by he asked that all the female employees leave. And they did. This was 2020 in Los Angeles. kinda wild!; 10/29/25, 7:55 PM
le Douanier said...: I don't think looking too deeply at goofy international relations protocol stuff means much.

But I will say that Korean gals are great re relationships (insane multi-course meals made at home). Japanese, too. And Filipino. And Lao. Likewise India and Sri Lanka. And so on re the globe...

With a lot of notches on the bedpost, It turns out that people are people. Who knew?; 10/29/25, 7:57 PM
Howard said...: You folks take everything so seriously and personally. Ya wanna know why Korea is kissing the ring? It's because Donald is the first US President to openly and forcefully use the full faith and credit of the American people, eg our juggernaut economic and military power, as negotiation leverage in all foreign policy.

I hope it works to bring peace and prosperity to the US and our allies rather than just flattery and trinkets.

We shall see.; 10/29/25, 8:01 PM
Paul said...: At least they gave him the 'Red Carpet' treatment... Biden just landed there and they stood on the tarmac...; 10/29/25, 8:54 PM
imTay said...: They all treat him as if they believe that he is a narcissist.; 10/29/25, 8:59 PM
imTay said...: Me too, Howard.; 10/29/25, 9:00 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: First time seeing President Trump wear that color of blue tie. He looks good. A natural at meeting and greeting.; 10/29/25, 9:28 PM

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