Animatronic puffer coats in the windows of the trendy women’s clothing store Aritzia in Manhattan appear to be doing the viral “Trump Dance” — likely unbeknownst to the “woke’’ chain’s higher-ups. The automated advertising displays’ shimmying — seemingly a la the president-elect’s wildly popular moves on the campaign trail — won positive reviews Sunday from passers-by. “It’s an attention-getter,” said a tourist named Chris who was outside the brand’s Fifth Avenue shop with his family from West Palm Beach, Fla.
Chris’s wife, Kam, said, “And if it is [the Trump dance], it’s OK. “You can like it or hate it,” she said. Another bystander said, “There’s a new president, so [the display] isn’t bad to us.
“Maybe it is for some people.” It’s unlikely that the Vancouver, Canada-based brand — which donated $100,000 to Black Lives Matter and the NAACP in 2020 — is aware that the display harkens to Trump. A source with knowledge of the company’s displays told The Post the chain considers the animatronic gestures “definitely just generic dance moves” that are “not intended to mimic anything or anyone.
” But some of the dozens of passers-by who stopped by the Fifth Avenue store to take photos with the displays weren’t convinced. “I definitely see it,’’ said Ray, a Los Angeles tourist, when a Post reporter pointed out the similarities between the Trump dance and the mannequins. Caroline, a Baltimore, Md.
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