The Great Blue Heron ironically leaning a little red with it’s dance moves.
By now, you’ve seen a video of Donald Trump busting his go-to move. If not, you must live under a rock, because the POTUS deploys his favorite arm-movement-heavy jig any chance he gets. Ever since Trump entered into the political sphere, he’s loved to do this arm dance – that’s now coined the “Trump Dance” – and he usually breaks it out when the 1978 hit song “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People is playing.
Funny enough, athletes have even adopted the dance move as a celebration for when they score (sometimes even when the president is in attendance). And the “Trump Dance” has hilariously been featured in both Madden and NCAA College Football video games. Needless to say, it’s everywhere.
It’s even catching on in the Animal Kingdom.
The president apparently shares his favorite dance move with the largest heron in North America. A video of a Great Blue Heron shaking out it’s wings and feathers has gone viral over the past couple of days because… well, it looks like it’s mimicking Donald Trump’s dance moves. Did Trump copy the Great Blue Heron? Or was it vice-versa? The world may never know.
All we do know is that the resemblance is uncanny. Deborah Sandidge, an avid bird photographer, captured the video of a Great Blue Heron shaking it out atop a cypress tree in Florida recently and posted it to her Instagram account. In just a couple of days, it’s garnered over 215,000 likes, and baffled hundreds of thousands of social media users.
Some have asked if the video is actually a person inside a heron costume. Others have just assumed that it’s AI. Granted, it’d be a simple prompt to feed artificial intelligence (make a Great Blue Heron do the Trump Dance). But that’s the thing… no technology – other than a camera – was needed for this viral video.
Instead, the wonder of Mother Nature was enough, and a wildlife photographer captured a large bird on camera busting a move like it was the President of the United States. Sandidge shared the video to her social media accounts with this caption:
“A Great Blue Heron high in a cypress tree, shakes out his silvery plumes. November brings new feathers and the start of courtship beauty in Florida’s wild places. Watch for the end as he spin dries his feathers, true heron style.”
Yeah that’s the Trump dance if I’ve ever seen it.
In reality, the Great Blue Heron was just saying “out with the old and in with the new” as it prepared for new feathers to start coming in. It’s similar to the videos that you see of bears scratching their backs on trees and looking as though they are dancing. Put some music to a wildlife video and there’s a good chance their movements accidentally line up to a good beat.
But hey, we can all just dream and assume that this heron somehow saw a video of the POTUS dancing and wanted to try it out, eh?
