Trump's Weirdest Obsession Is Other Men [View all]
Julie Roginsky
Donald Trump’s defenders would like us to believe that his long public record of comments about bodies, beauty, dominance and sex is just “Trump being Trump.” Spoiler alert: that is exactly the problem. After nearly a decade of watching him in national politics, one thing is clear: Trump’s politics cannot be separated from his bizarre performance of masculinity.
This is not a story about Trump’s sexual orientation, although there is an argument to be made that his self-loathing is based on a lifetime of being unable to live openly as he might wish. It is not about who Trump is really attracted to. It is about something far more public and far more politically relevant: his compulsive need to evaluate men and women through the language of bodies, attractiveness, virility and domination.
The pattern is not subtle. At the White House in 2019, Trump said of Clemson’s quarterback: “Look at that quarterback. Oh, I want to be the agent of that tall, handsome quarterback. Six-foot-seven.”
During a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 2024, Trump spent part of his closing presidential campaign message talking about the late golf legend Arnold Palmer, including a riff implying Palmer was unusually well-endowed. “This man was strong and tough, and … when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there – they said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump told the crowd.
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/trumps-weirdest-obsession-is-other
I've showered at a few public locker rooms over the years. There was no time that I spent checking other guys' equipment out. Just wanted to get cleaned up and out of there.
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