The strangeness and sanity of Donald Trump

The Village People joined Donald Trump on stage at the conclusion of his pre-inauguration rally last night. ‘You won’t recognise them, they’re a little bigger, but that’s life,’ The Donald informed us beforehand, in one of the many interesting digressions in his long, long address. This was less of a speech and more of a mellifluous ramble of his achievements, with other odd interludes about handshakes and culture – ‘Silence Of The Lambs, anyone see that movie? Lovely movie’. 

As Trump did his funny little one-potato, two-potato dance along with the fuller-figured but actually still very recognisable Village People, I had to keep reminding myself that this was by far the saner option at the American ballot box last November. 

Will it always seem so strange? Tomorrow’s history books will simply note that Trump adopted a popular song, which is hardly unusual for a politician. The complexities of the juxtaposition – the sheer campness of it all –will be lost to time.