“No. 1, she’s not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, O.K.?” said Donald Trump on Monday. E. Jean Carroll, and the 15 women who came before her, suggest an alternative truth. Trump doesn’t have a type. He has prey
Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP/Shutterstock In her new book, E. Jean Carroll predicted that Donald Trump would deny sexually assaulting her, and she was right. “I’ll say it with great respect,” Trump told The Hill on Monday. “No. 1, she’s not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, O.K.?” This is not the first time the president has denied a credible assault story by saying — very very respectfully! — that the woman in question is simply too ugly for him to rape .
The question of Carroll’s looks is a distraction, of course. Trump does not stand accused of finding her attractive but of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room, which is something he’d rather we all forget. The strongman image Trump wants to project can only persist as long as the public believes that he embodies some grotesque masculine ideal — that he is someone who easily woos beautiful women, someone who can safeguard the nation he loves.
And alas for Trump, Carroll’s story is consistent with everything we know about him as a private individual and as a president. Trump has abused the powerless with every step of his shambling path toward wealth and political authority. As a landlord, he abused his tenants. He abused his ex-wife, Ivana. He promised to abuse migrants if he became president and has committed the resources of the American government to fulfilling that promise with gusto.
It seems that a person must possess the sort of power Trump is desperate to convey in order to consider them human at all. And Carroll, for all her cultural sway, did not meet that standard. Even in the 1990s, when she says the attack occurred, Trump had more of everything; more money, more attorneys, more authority. Now, with no real check on his cruelest impulses, we can all see him for what he is: a common predator.
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