. >> steve: hold on, let's paint a little better picture of victor willis.people, right? which of those characters is he? any idea? >> ainsley: what were the four characters, fireman, cowboy, what were the other two? i do all know? >> steve: which of these people is victor willis? he is the cop. he is the cop in the front. sometimes he was the cop and sometimes he was a naval officer. >> brian: i love the headdress. >> steve: this is from the 70s. >> brian: chief. >> lawrence: explains why i don't recognize them. >> brian: everything is changing now. >> steve: here is how crazy things have gotten. back in 2020, mr. willis asked trump to stop using the ymca theme song because of the administration's response to black lives matter. but, fast-forward four years and as it turns out he is thanking donald trump who we have seen -- you have seen donald trump and he is, you know, going crazy. >> brian: he loves this song. >> steve: this song has made mre who hold the royalties a lot of money. in fact, something like a thousand knew he says he has got a change of hea

victor willis, founding member of the village people joins me now.ugh asked trump to stop using the song because you were getting so many complaints. why did you change your mind and allow him to do it? >> well, i decided to allowed president-elect's continued use of ymca because he seems to genuinely like the song. some other artists were strong him from using their music, so i decided to contact bmi and told them to not to terminate his political use license because he seemed to be bringing so much joy to the american people with this use of ymca. >> todd: victor, it's not just the president. every american, dare i say every american in the world loves when you wrote it did you think it would be basically everywhere? >> one never knows, you know. time is the only thing that makes you know. so i never had any idea. >> todd: the question on everyone's mind now, will you may at the inauguration, victor? >> well, if you were to ask me today if village people would perform at the inauguration, i would probably say not because we would be concerned about

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a lot to unpack let's ask victor willis the writer of ymca, the lead singer of the o. come on come on, you look awesome you look awesome thank you. um all right. i'm loving it already. i lost, i lost my train of thought by the way, just looking at you. so first of all, what's the beef like i can today say it's the gay anthem, but you're going to sue me on cnn if i say that in january well, no i do think the gay community should be aware that the lyrics are not referring to what they believe the lyrics are referring to, that would make the song in their minds a gay anthem such as illicit activity at the y. >> no i wouldn't be suing you over it. so don't trip okay so you wrote the lyrics. >> what's the song about well, the song is about my growing up experiences in san francisco in the urban area where i used to go to the y. >> we used to play basketball, and we played we played sports. and me and my boys, i, we used to use the expression hanging out with the boys so we'd hang out at the y and we had various basketball teams from the city after school and we'd go there a

victor willis, the policemen and the bigoted -- village people is defending trump's usage of the songis rallies. he wrote a long facebook post saying that despite once asking trump to stop using the song, he had a change of heart and realized that trump genuinely liked ymca and was having a lot of fun with it. he also pointed out that the song hit number 1 on the billboard chart after 45 years thanks to trump. let's face it without the ymca, would we have been given the gift that keeps on giving? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so he's like you seem to be having fun and i'm having fun rolling in this cash, what you think? >> i never understood when artists suddenly become politicians and be like don't play my music at your 250,000 people rally with apple phones that can point and click and by my song and a second, how dare you serve. good for him. to come out and support it because it's really -- it you never really cross. you were going to make money. not to mention the fact the ymca is the one song even if you don't know the words to it because i don't, when i hear it i know at some point you put a y in

one of the village people, the cop, whose name is victor willis, went on cnn last night.a gay anthem. but in reality, ymca is more than just a gay anthem. ymca is an anthem for -- for parties, bar mitzvahs, wedding, sporting events. it kind of disturbs me when they just try to say ymca is just a gay anthem. >> jimmy: right. it's not just a gay anthem, it is "the" gay anthem. [ laughter ] [ applause ] it is the number one gay and could soon be our national anthem. [ laughter ] i like that he wore the cop outfit on cnn, even with the star. and the fact that donald trump loves ymca, i don't know, it's kind of cute in a way. i would love to see his spotify playlist. say what you want about the man, he loves music so touch much, he has a new christmas album featuring all the fun holiday characters from the magaverse. >> this holiday season, trigger the lips in your life with the bigliest album in santa's sack. have yourself a maga little christmas. jingle all the way to the capitol with red-blooded holiday classics like "rudolph the disbarred lawyer." "twitchy the snowman." "t

so on behalf of every one of us who listened to your song over the decades we thank you victor willis and thank you for coming on the program. curious to see if you go to the inauguration. with that, the patriot awards by fox nation, "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ freedom was a highway. >> brian: hi, everybody, how are you? [cheers] >> steve: hello. >> ainsley: thank you all for being here. >> steve: good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. [applause] >> steve: hello, folks. and welcome to brian kilmeade land. >> brian: long island and long island university. can you believe it? >> ainsley: what was it like when you drove in? you knew where to go. you were calling where do we go? what parking lot? >> brian: i remember the year we got here, the roof on this building collapsed in the snow storm. >> steve: oh good because it's snowing. >> brian: it's fixed now. this place is beautiful did. you have a chance to walk around? they have about 20,000 students here about. 4,000 live on campus. it's getting bigger every year. they have consolidated campuses. they won division one. once i le

village people founding member victor willis tells cnn his group received thousands of complaints frommp's use of the song since 2020, and they wanted them to bar trump's using it. but now, willis says he had a change of heart. >> i um, noticed that trump actually likes the song and that he really seems to have a lot of fun with it, and that was our reason, and my reason for allowing him to continue to use it because he really just likes ymca like so many other people do. >> among those people, how about the world's richest man, elon musk, who was seen dancing to the song alongside trump during thanksgiving dinner last week in mar-a-lago it really has become kind of like now. the ymca is so deeply associated with trump and you're seeing football players do the dance. >> in the end zone. and just the the you know, i'm not going to do it, but i'm going to say terrible. >> you just made a gif of yourself. you just did it will you do it? this is it, right? >> i mean, that's how he does it, but doesn't it make you like it reminds you of, like, a bad seconds wedding when he starts doing the

. >> the village people's cop says trump doesn't have to stop victor willis, the policeman in the villageusage of the song ymca at his rallies. willis wrote a long facebook post saying that despite once asking trump to stop using the song, he had a change of heart and realized that trump genuinely liked ymca and was having a lot of fun with it. he also pointed out that the song hit number one on the billboard chart after 45 years, thanks to trump and let's face it, without the ymca, we would. we have been given the gift that keeps on giving. young man, there's no need to feel down. >> i said, young man, pick yourself off the ground. i sai, ymca. it's fun to stay at the ymca. >> so he's like, you know what? he's seeming to be having fun and i'm having fun rolling in this cash tires. what do you think? >> yeah, i never quite understood when artists suddenly become politicians and be like, don't play my music at your 250,000 people rally with with apple phones that can point and click and buy my song in a second. how dare you, sir? good for him to come out and support it, because it's reall.

victor willis is normally dressed as a police or naval officer.co-wrote the 1978 hit about having fun at the ymca. posted on social media, he was originally against mr. trump playing the song at rallies, but willis is now on board. says the song is gaining a whole new audience and that the band is receiving financial benefits. >> our time is now. 516 the u.s. senate will hold a hearing with five executives of major airlines about the increase in junk fees and how consumers and travelers are affected. ktvu sally rasmus joins us live with more on this from sfo. good morning ali. >> good morning wolf. it feels like you are being charged for everything. when you fly. you probably are. at least that's the finding of this report issued by a senate subcommittee on so-called junk fees. the report found that in the past five years is 55 page study found that airlines make billions of dollars charging for as much as an extra $300 per ticket for things like extra legroom, window seats and checking carry on luggage. the report notes that the business model is