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Friday Reads: Trump Is Not a Manly Man. Manly Men are Not Obsessed With Redecorating
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Its Friday, and Im filling in for Dakinikat. I had another one of my sleepless nights last night, so please forgive me if this post is a little weird.
I know this isnt politically correct, but Ive always thought that Trump was a bit effeminatein his looks and his behavior. How many manly men are obsessed with interior decoration even in the middle of a war
Not to mention that hes in an apparently loveless marriage. His wife doesnt sleep with him or even live with him, and reportedly has to be paid to appear in public with him. Maybe Melania is just a beard.
It seems that Im not alone. Ashley Parker of The Atlantic agrees with me (gift article): .
P in playing what he calls the gay national anthem whenever he wants to rev up a crowd. Hes obsessed with Elton John, was once friendly with Liza Minnelli, and has a Liberace-esque flair for gilded interiors. One of his favorite sports to watchmixed martial artsis basically sweaty, semi-naked dudes. And he is a deep and vocal admirer of the physique of fellow men, often announcing which ones he would cast in a movie: Theyre perfect specimens, he said last year of the military pilots who had visited him in the Oval Office He looks like the Marlboro Man, he cooed about a former Iowa state senator Young, handsome guy. Its always nice to be young and handsome, he complimented the president of Paraguay.
Some of Trumps allies note that years before gay marriage was legalized, Trump had gay friends, took pro-gay stances, and allowed gay people to join his private club in Palm Beach starting in the mid-1990s. Ric Grenell became the first openly gay person to hold a Cabinet position when Trump appointed him acting director of national intelligence. Grenell, who is now the presidents envoy for special missions, once called Trump the most pro-gay president in American history, a title that Trump said he was honored to have.
Trump dancing to YMCA.
To be clear: Trump says he is attracted only to women and, in fact, has been married to three of them. He once hosted the Miss Universe pageant, was caught on tape saying that he loves to grab women by the pussy, and was found civilly liable for sexually abusing a woman. Loads more have accused him of sexual misconduct. (Trump has denied the accusations.) WomenI like. Menno, I dont have any interest, Trump affirmed at a Board of Peace meeting earlier this year.
But theres also little doubt that Trump has unabashedly embraced the aestheticthe je ne sais quoiof a certain kind of gay man. Some who are sympathetic to the president have gone even further. Blaze Media, a conservative outlet started by the talk-radio host Glenn Beck, ran a story in 2024 headlined , much in the way people talked about Bill Clinton as having been the first Black one. The story notes, in a section titled Queen of Queens: He blows kisses to Hulk Hogan, weighs in on Fashion Week (used to be so glamorous and exciting! No stars, no funjust boring), and his rivalry with lesbian Rosie ODonnell remains a gem of the catty naughties social feuds. Pod Save America, a liberal podcast started by former aides to President Obama, declared that Trump would be a gay icon, if only he had liberal social values. The president, the episodes title observes, DEMANDS a Ballroom at the White House, Loves Musicals, & Wears Make-up.
the author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, told me that Trumps personal story, a guy from Queens making it big in Manhattan, tracks with the typical gay story of men of his era. In another life, he continued, the 79-year-old could be a classic aging gay, living in Wilton Manors, sitting at a bar, making bitchy comments to everyone who comes in. (Of course, Trumps perch from the Oval Office confers much more power than a bar stool does, and his comments have moved markets and sent allies reeling.) Its a gay man frozen in amber in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before AIDS, Kirchick said, referring to the type of gay man he believes Trump would embody. Its a certain age and a certain era. Its very campy.
The comedian and podcaster Caleb Hearon deemed Trump to be of the old-school-gay era, because, you know, gay guys used to be mean before media training, he said in an interview with Ziwe Fumudoh on her YouTube comedy show. The president, Hearon continued, should have become a red-carpet fashion adviser, the sort who would say things like: That dress, honey. I dont think so! That would have been amazing. I would have watched every night, he said. Instead, he ran for office on a platform of mass deportation, so thats where things got tricky, obviously.
A little bit more:
Trumps continued patter about mens bodies has also drawn attention. As my colleague Marie-Rose Sheinerman and I dug into examples of these corporeal appraisals, we were surprised by their sheer quantity and just how much Trump seems to delight in complimenting other men. He has given the compliment of handsome at least 68 times so far in his second termor 69 times, if we count the two Thanksgiving turkeys he also collectively described as such. He is unapologetic in his preference for Cabinet members and administration officials who seem to come out of central casting he praised Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is gay, for his Hollywood-worthy bona fides, before appreciatively noting that under that beautiful exterior is a killer.
He can almost never resist commenting on the physique of brawny men: Look at the muscles on this guy! he said, gazing upon a young cadet while delivering the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy last week. Two days later, he took pains to praise the New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart, calling him a beautiful guy and waxing poetic about his legs like tree trunks. And speaking about the golfer Arnold Palmer in 2024, Trump managed to both reassert his preference for women while also remarking on the legends masculinity: I love women, but this guythis guythis is a guy that was all man. (He also noted Palmers powerful swing with stiff-shafted clubs, and his, um, alleged other assets: When he took showers with the other pros, they came out of therethey said, Oh my God, thats unbelievable.)
I wonder if Trump would have acted on his attraction to men if he had grown up in a less repressed era Check this out:
Paul Baker, the author of Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World, told me over email that when it comes to Trump, making the distinction between camp and campy is important. The latter is the more self-conscious, ironic adoption of camp. But Trump is the original, pure formits when someones behaviour is outrageous, excessive, subversive and unintentionally funny, he said. The person doesnt realise theyre funny or that theyre camp. Theyre just being themselves.
OK, Id better not quote any more of that article.
This piece is by Julie Sidivy at Politico, dated October 25, 2016:
In the 2016 presidential contest, there has been one thing that supporters and detractors of Donald Trump have agreed on. The chest-pounding real estate mogul from New York has emerged as the quintessentially masculine candidate. Love him or loathe him, Trumps campaign has been defined by the ways he has asserted his malenessmocking his opponents for their low energy, bullying his critics, sneering at perceived weakness, boasting of his sexual prowess, vowing to hit back twice as hard as hes been hit.
But academic research has picked up something that thousands of hours of campaign punditry has missed completely: Donald Trump talks like a woman. He might be preoccupied with grading womens looks, penis size and locker room talk, but the way he speaks and the actual words he uses make for a distinctly feminine style. In fact, his speaking style is more feminine by far than any other candidate in the 2016 cycle, more feminine than any other presidential candidate since 2004.
More than just a comical curiosity, this fact about Trumps mode of communication might help explain how a candidate who has been so extensively rebuked for his mean-spirited attacks on immigrants, women, the disabled and even prisoners of war has managed to attract support from millions of voters who adore the way he says openly what they feel. To some, Trumps ascent is evidence that society still prizes the masculine over the feminine, but whats happening is more complex, and Trumps style has qualities that go beyond mere blustery aggression. Research has shown that the more feminine a speakers style, the more likable and trustworthy he seems. For Trump, who has been derided for his multiple contradictions and outright lies, that advantage might well have persuaded his supporters to listen to him and not the chorus of media fact checkers.
Its not just a lazy stereotype that men and women speak differently. In fact, researchers who have sifted through thousands of language samples from men and women have identified clear statistical differences. Some of these differences are exactly what youd expectmen are more likely to swear and use words that signal aggression, while women are more likely to use tentative language (words like maybe, seems or perhaps) and emotion-laden words (beautiful, despise). But other patterns are far from obvious. For example, contrary to the common stereotype that men cant resist talking about themselves, women are heavier users than men of the pronoun I whereas the reverse is true for the pronoun we women produce more common verbs (are, start, went) and auxiliary verbs (am, dont, will), while men utter more articles (a, the) and prepositions (to, with, above) women use fewer long words than men when speaking or writing across a broad range of contexts.
Jennifer Jones, a doctoral candidate of political psychology at the University of California at Irvine, has combined these statistics into an index capturing the ratio of feminine to masculine words, and applied it to the language of 35 political candidates over the past decade. Hillary Clintons language falls above the average on this indexmore feminine than George W. Bushs, but less so than Barack Obamas.
But Donald Trump is a stunning outlier. His linguistic style is startlingly feminine, so much so that the chasm between Trump and the next most feminine speaker, Ben Carson, is about as great as the difference between Carson and the least feminine candidate, Jim Webb. And Trump earns his ranking not just because he talks a lot about himself or avoids big words (both of which are true) according to Jones, he also shows feminine patterns on the more subtle measures, such as his use of prepositions and articles. The key then is not what Trump talks aboutmaking Mexico pay for the wall or bombing the hell out of ISILbut rather how he says it.
Theres much more at the Politico link.
Here we are in the middle of a war that Trump started, and he seems much more interested in his decorating projects than what is going on in his conflict in the Middle East. Some examples:
Dan Diamond at The Washington Post:
President Donald Trump has made little secret that his planned White House ballroom is a top priority, more frequently than most other issues. And in recent weeks he has raged at anyone including a federal judge, a Senate official and a local historian whose actions threaten to slow construction.
On Monday, the president shared on social media a copy of a that closely resembled his own words and contended that the weekends shooting outside the White House campus proved the need for a ballroom.
Trump at the ballroom construction site.
Without the construction of this great Project, the President cannot safely conduct the business of the United States, acting attorney general Todd Blanche and two other senior Justice Department officials lawyers wrote, urging a federal judge to dissolve his order that could soon halt construction. This is a terrible, tremendously harmful case to the United States of America, and all it stands for!
The filing also mocked the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which has sued to halt the project, claiming that the group had been defunded by Congress due to a total lack of respect for them. Trump all six pages of the filing on his Truth Social platform.
Trumps ballroom project has embodied executive power and its limitations.
The president was able to rapidly bulldoze the East Wing last year, clearing space for his planned 90,000-square-foot addition.Trump has remade independent federalcommissions firing holdovers and installing loyalists, that have swiftly approved his project.Hes raised vast sums of money that he says can be put toward the ballrooms estimated $400 million cost.
But so far,he has been constrained barely by the courts and Congress.
And its obvious that the ballroom means much more to him than the war or the struggling US economy.
Tiago Ventura at Time:
House Democrats are set to introduce legislation aimed at blocking the construction of President Donald Trumps planned 250-ft nearby Arlington National Cemetery.
Trumps vanity project would waste taxpayer money, brazenly violate existing law, and become yet another vehicle for his corruption, Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia said in a Wednesday. The Administration has also given no consideration to potential harmful effects on the region including impacts on air safety and traffic on major roadways.
Trump holds up a model of his Arc de Trump.
Alongside Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada, Beyer plans to introduce what has been tentatively titled the Arlington National Cemetery Viewshed Protection Act on Friday, just days after the designs were approved by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a panel made up of Trump .
The seeks to prohibit the construction of the arch and the use of any federal funds for the project. Additionally, it would prohibit the construction of any triumphal arch exceeding 50-feet on any National Park Service lands within the capital region except by express authorization of Congress.
Democrats have argued that the proposed arch, which is set to include a public viewing deck, is an unnecessary financial expenditure, especially given the ongoing impacting many Americans.
As President Trump strips away the necessary safety nets from Americans who are struggling to afford their basic needs like groceries and healthcare, he builds his unauthorized, grandiose Triumphal Arch, said Titus. While destroying historical monuments and artefacts important to our American identity, he is erecting monuments to honor himself.
Unfortunately, Trump couldnt care less about the public good. He only cares about building memorials to himself.
Trump dreams up new renovation projects nearly every day. Here are the latest ones weve heard about:
Will Weissert and Michelle L Price at AP, via ABC News:
He boasted of fixing city fountains and power-washing a local pool making careful distinctions between sandblasting versus pebble-blasting and detailing efforts to repair brick walkways in a public park.
But this wasnt a small-town mayor assuring a few dozen community members at a town hall that municipal improvement efforts would be completed in time for Little League season.
This was President channeling his decades as a high-profile real estate developer regaling his and a nationally televised audience on Wednesday with the ins and outs of beautification projects around Washington.
I love construction. Its very exciting, Trump said, maintaining that the face-lift hes helped oversee to the nations capital means D.C. is looking beautiful.
His aside lasted 10 minutes and was far more comprehensive than anything said about the other major issues discussed during the meeting, including the There were also only passing references to and fears about a that could hurt Trumps Republican Party in its push to retain control of Congress after Novembers .
The president also said that, under his watch, construction crews were working to improve 28 fountains, then bragged about a push to renovate the reflecting lake or reflecting pond actually the which he said had been steam-cleaned, fumigated and coated with American flag blue paint.
Over the years, I built hundreds of pools, Trump said, recalling his days as a construction mogul in 1970s and 80s New York. I always like to build Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The president noted that, as part of the revamp, cleaning crews had removed more than 10 dumpsters of garbage.
More projects described at the link.
Sarah Ewall-Wice at The Daily Beast:
President Donald Trump wants to paint the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., blue after slapping blue paint on the Reflecting Pool.
Trump, 79, revealed the latest memorial he wants to get his hands on during a nearly 10-minute rant about renovations hes been focused on throughout the nations capital at the White House while surrounded by members of his Cabinet.
Trump says he wants to paint the fountain of the WWII Memorial as seen from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 2, 2026.
Now were looking at the World War II fountain because thats also in pretty bad shape, Trump declared.
He revealed he wanted to duplicate the fountains bottom with paint in a slightly different color.
Actually, well go with a lighter color, but Doug and I have a lot of fun doing it, Trump told the room, referring to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
The WWII Memorial includes a series of stone and bronze sculptures surrounding a pool of water on the National Mall just down from the Reflecting Pool.
The presidents comment came after he rambled for several minutes about his administration slapping a fresh coat of paint on the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
Trump called it the reflecting lake and said nobody has ever seen anything like it while also giving it the wrong dimensions and claiming it was longer than the tallest building in the world, which it is not.
He is insane, utterly insane.
I just heard about this project yesterday. Anna Kramer at Notus:
Four massive bronze horses positioned along the roads surrounding the Lincoln Memorial still shine in the sun from their first restoration in the 1970s. But their gold-toned coating is faded and patchy, and their heavy stone bases are cracked and dirty.
The Trump administration wants them glittering with a fresh coat of gold in time for Americas 250th anniversary on July 4. So in mid-April, the National Park Service handed to a gilding studio in Maryland to repair the statues and cover them with a thick layer of 23.75-karat gold leaf.
It awarded the project without a full competition, according to NPS documents reviewed by NOTUS.
Four bronze horses surrounding the Lincoln Memorial are getting a glow-up for Americas 250th anniversary on July 4. Kainaz Amaria, NOTUS
As Trump hurries to put his stamp on a city hes long denigrated as crumbling and ugly, his administration has doled out tens of millions of dollars for contracts with short timelines and little oversight.
In total, the Interior Department is spending at least $95 million in taxpayer funds for new D.C. beautification projects, according to a NOTUS review of government spending data. All of the projects identified by NOTUS were initiated between December 2025 and April of this year. About $20 million in contracts, including the gilding of the four horses, have not previously been reported.
It is within the realm of reason to say: Its the 250th anniversary thats coming up, and instead of spending a hundred million dollars we normally spend on the District of Columbia, we want to spend $250 million. Thats perfectly normal, said one former General Services Administration official, making up the dollar amounts to illustrate their point. What is not normal is the lack of transparency.
In mid-April, the National Park Service hired The Gilders Studio in Maryland to restore the 80,000-pound statue pairs, known as the Arts of War and Arts of Peace. According to agency documentation, the gilding company is covering the statues in an unusually thick layer of nearly pure gold heavier and purer than even the the same studio used to refinish the exterior of the Wyoming state capital dome seven years ago.
The $5 million contract includes more work than just the gold leafing, although the gold itself is certain to be a significant part of the cost, with the price of gold essentially doubling over the last several years.
And who is paying for all of Trumps vanity project Maxine Joselo and Andrea Fuller at The New York Times:
The National Park Service is using at least $67 million worth of park entrance fees to help fund President Trumps beautification projects in Washington, according to a New York Times analysis of federal records.
Nearly $60 million in fees paid by visitors to national parks across the country is funding repairs to nine of the capitals ornamental fountains, the analysis found. The government is putting another $7 million worth of entrance fees toward the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which , according to an internal Park Service document reviewed by The Times.
The National Park Service is spending millions in fees paid by visitors to parks across the country, like Yosemite National Park in California, to pay for restoration of nine ornamental fountains in Washington, D.C, AP
The analysis was based on a federal contracting database. The $7 million for the Reflecting Pool has not previously been reported.
Mr. Trump has proposed a host of initiatives to remake Washington in his own style and wants these projects completed by July 4, the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Some conservationists criticized the Trump administration for steering so much money to projects in Washington that appeared to be cosmetic fixes rather than urgent upgrades. National parks outside the capital have long maintenance backlogs, including repairs to deteriorating roads and water systems that threaten visitor safety.
Our parks and public lands have been underfunded for decades, and there are many genuinely urgent projects in need of funding across the country, said Aaron Weiss, the executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, a conservation group. Instead, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is determined to divert millions of dollars to projects that President Trump can see out his window.
The spending is legal. Under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of 2004, at least 80 percent of revenue from entrance fees must stay in the park where the fees were collected. But the other 20 percent can be used to improve sites that do not collect fees, such as the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington.
Katie Martin, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, which includes the Park Service, did not respond to specific questions but defended the spending in general.
The National Park Service has not only been focused on beautifying the district but has also been working on many deferred maintenance projects throughout the country, Ms. Martin said in an email, adding that we should all be grateful for Mr. Trumps focus on projects in Washington.
I for one am not grateful.
Thats my post for today. I hope it isnt too weird. I just couldnt spend time today reading about the war and elections.
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& company had terminated the lawsuit after the judge pointed out the glaring problems (Trump was on both sides of the as both the plaintiff the defendant/president). The underlying claim was also stale, meaning it was outside the statute of limitations and therefore worthless."
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