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Viral: Christian Pulisic scores against Jamaica and hits "Donald Trump dance" celebration

By Giancarlo Cornejo November 19, 2024
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The American has received a wave of backlash on social media.
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Christian Pulisic’s red-hot form with both AC Milan and the U.S. men’s national team has the American placed amongst the best players in the world right now — though, it's not exactly exempting him from criticism. The reason? His latest celebration.

Pulisic scored two of the four goals in the USMNT's 4-2 victory over Jamaica (5-2 score aggregate) to seal their spot in the Concacaf Nations League semifinals, further cementing his status as the United States’ target man and main attacking threat.

The 25-year-old's first goal was undoubtedly the best, perfectly-anticipating a Weston McKennie cross and placing the ball into the top bins with his weak foot.

Captain America making it look easy.

His second, which came of a deflection, doubled the USMNT's lead.

Watch: Christian Pulisic Trump celebration — USMNT star causes division from fans on social media

However, shortly after scoring the opener, the Hershey, Pennsylvania native ran towards the corner flag and hit what is known as the "Donald Trump dancing" celebration, joined by McKennie and Ricardo Pepi. 

This was only visible to those actually watching the live broadcast, as accounts like the U.S. men’s national team decided to crop the video shortly before Pulisic did the celebration.

That didn’t stop fans from bringing up the celebration in the replies, however, as many hit at Pulisic for ‘bringing politics’ into the sport and for the USMNT to try to anticipate and avoid the backlash across their socials.

Like in the USMNT’s various platforms, the response, backlash, praise and everything in between, was quick to show up on social media, with the “Pulisic Trump celebration” becoming a hot topic in USMNT Twitter (now X).

Personalities, fan accounts, former players and celebrities all chimed in to give their opinion on the Pulisic celebration.

Pulisic explains Donald Trump dance celebration: "It was just for fun."

Shortly after the match was over, Pulisic was asked about the significance of the dance, with the American denying it had any political intent and was simply inspired by people recently doing it across other sports.

"I saw everyone doing it yesterday in the NFL, I saw Jon Jones do it [in the UFC], and we were just having a bit of fun. I thought it was a pretty funny dance. Obviously, that's the "Trump Dance" but it was just a dance that everyone's doing. He's the one who created it, so I just thought it was fun," said Pulisic.

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"It's not a political dance. It was just for fun. I saw a bunch of people do it and thought it was funny, so I enjoyed it. I hope some people did," he added.

Did fans have a right to be upset? Or is this just another ‘controversial’ moment that fans will be quick to forget about?

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