Monday, October 28, 2024

How Old Is He?

This is something that grade school kids do out on the player ground…
 Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper with a woman’s first name in recent days as the Republican presidential nominee focuses his closing message on a hypermasculine appeal to men.

On a Friday morning post on Trump’s social media site Truth Social, the former president referred to one of the most prominent openly gay journalists in the U.S. as “Allison Cooper.”

Trump made the subtext even more explicit later Friday during a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, where he criticized a town hall Cooper hosted with Vice President Kamala Harris.

“If you watched her being interviewed by Allison Cooper the other night, he’s a nice person. You know Allison Cooper? CNN fake news,” Trump said, before pausing and saying in a mocking voice: “Oh, she said no, his name is Anderson. Oh, no.”
That is so wrong on so many levels, first it is misogynistic, second it is homophobic. And his hyper-masculine MAGA just gobble it up!
In referring to Cooper with a woman’s name, Trump appeared to turn to a stereotype heterosexual people have long deployed against gay men. Such rhetoric evokes the trope of gay men as effeminate and comes as Trump aims to drive up his appeal among men in the final stages of his bid to return to the White House.
Is this person presidential material? Or is he is just another right-wing bully.

1 comment:

  1. Again, I will ask "Do you really do not understand how the German people let Hitler rise to lead them?" 1930's Germany is very possible in the United States.

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