The American regional Mexican band Grupo Frontera has been involved in a controversy due to an alleged endorsement to the politician and current US president Donald Trump since early 2025, after the viralization of the Village People's "Y.M.C.A" dance video by the vocalist's relatives.
[2] The next days, a video went viral on social media, wherein the band's vocalist Adelaido "Payo" Solís' grandmother, alias "La Abuela Frontera", dances the Village People's "Y.M.C.A" with other relatives, a song used by Trump for his 2024 presidencial campaign.
[4][7] As a result, they received massive followers losses, hate comments and accusations of being Latinos for Trump, calling the alleged endorsement a "betrayal of the Mexicans" due to his mass deportation of immigrants during his second presidency.
[4][5][6] Therefore, fans called for a digital cancel to the band (boycott), rejecting their presence in Mexico and refraining from consuming any content related to them, including songs, videos and live performances.
[6][8][9] A video of a massive booing at one of their recent concerts and screencasts showing the Instagram's personal account of some members following the Trump's profile and liking his posts also went viral.
[4][8] On February 11, a petition at the American website Change.org was published by alias "Espíritu" to cancel the Grupo Frontera's participation at the 2025 edition of the Chicago Latin music festival Sueños.
[13][14] At the 37th Lo Nuestro Awards' red carpet, the Cuban-American television presenter Raúl de Molina asked them about the controversy, question which made the band feel uncomfortable.
[b] Around the TikTok dance video, "Espíritu" denied any explicit reference of an endorsement there, but he said it was strategically implicit, while Chicago Sun-Times's staff opined that "[Donald Trump] and [Grupo Frontera] [...] [could] simply have similar tastes in music".
[8] Something similar, the February 22 video received negative reactions, accusing it of the same as the statement and complaining that they never rejected directly Trump, also noticed by Rolling Stone's Tomás Mier.
[27][28] After that, he published another series of Instagram stories repeating his hatred to the band and exploding against his stepbrother (referring to him as "Gallito Fino"), relating his sympathy with an indifference to immigrant community, arguing, "Aquí está un mexicano que muere por su raza con los huevos bien puestos.