Rush Limbaugh recently stated, “OK, how’s this gonna look, a 37-year-old gay guy (Pete Buttigieg) kissing his husband onstage next to Mr. Man Donald Trump? We’ll leave Pete Buttigieg for later. But, excuse me, Mr. Man Trump??

Perhaps a Mr. Man in Limbaugh’s eyes is someone who like Limbaugh has a trophy wife, multiple divorces, lies with abandon and is a racist? Anyway, Limbaugh and Trump are a modern day reincarnation of two long ago Saturday Night Live characters, Hans and Franz.

Hans and Franz were two body builders (in their eyes) who constantly derided “Girly Men”. The comedy part of this was that, like Trump and Limbaugh, despite all their machismo, Hans and Franz were the ultimate Girly Men.

So, just for Hans and Franz, we’ll look at Mr. Man Trump and see how someone that was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth and probably has never done a physical day’s work in his life fits as either a Mr. Man or as a Girly Man.

For Trump supporters…

Since Trump supporters have a totally different sense of morality than the rest of us, I’ve divided this into two sections to make it more relevant for all. First for Trump supporters, in terminology they’ll understand:

• Real men keep their wives satisfied.
  • Mr. Man Trump fired his bodyguard in 1996 after a police officer found Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, and their bodyguard naked under a lifeguard stand on a deserted beach at 4:00 AM. 
  • Mr. Man Trump’s third wife, Melania, resides in the East Wing of the White House while Donald resides in the West Wing. When traveling, they have separate hotel rooms. From all appearances, Melania seems to prefer celibacy to anything Girly Man Donald has to offer.
• Real men don’t go whoring. At the same celebrity golf tournament Girly Man Trump hooked up with Stormy Daniels, Mr. Man Trump also offered Jessica Drake, another porn star attending the same golf outing, $10,000 and the use of his private jet to have sex with him.
• Real men don’t do comb-overs. Nobody has a comb-over like Girly Man Trump to cover his bald spot. Also, real men don’t fear high winds. For those of us Real Men who are lucky enough to be bald, it may have taken a little getting use to, but we regard baldness as the ultimate sign of masculinity.
• Real men don’t wear more make-up than their wives.
• Real men don’t wear girdles. Look at pictures of Girly Man Trump on the golf course and compare to him wearing a suit and make your own call on this.
• Real men don’t do tanning beds or tanning creams. The ultimate example of vanity and overdosing is Girly Man Trump’s orange skin.
• Real men don’t use profanity or take their Lord’s name in vain. Girly Man Trump curses regularly, even at his campaign rallies.
• Real men have the respect of their peers. Girly Man Trump is the laughing stock of the world. While other world leaders are not being a class act for laughing at someone like Trump who is truly intellectually challenged, it is hard to blame them for mocking an arrogant, blathering windbag. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/04/world-is-laughing-donald-trump

For the rest of us…

The following don’t mean anything to Trump and Limbaugh supporters, but they mean a lot to the rest of us in defining real machismo:

• Real me don’t sexually assault women. Twenty-five women have courageously come forward and described the details of Girly Man Trump’s assaults. Some reported Mr. Man Trump pulling up their dresses and grabbing at their vaginas. For today’s Republicans, sexual assault by a white male Republican is just fine as long as they lie about it afterwards.
• Real men don’t brag about sexually assaulting women. In the “Access Hollywood” tape Girly Man Trump enthusiastically brags about grabbing women by their pusseys. Mr. Man Trump denies ever saying these things. It takes a particularly idiotic Girly Man to lie about what is on a recording.
• Real men don’t have numerous extra-marital affairs like Girly Man Trump.
• Men who get caught having affairs own up to it. In contrast, a pathetic Girly Man will arrange six figure payouts to try and buy his sex partners’ silence while having his lawyer (Michael Cohen) lie to his wife for him.
• Married men with any sense of concern for their wife’s health use condoms when having extra-marital sex with porn stars. In an interview on “60 Minutes”, porn star Stormy Daniels related how Mr. Man Trump had unprotected sex with her.
• Real men know that the best sex happens when both parties are into it. Girly Man Trump’s first wife, Ivana, charged him with marital rape (along with “cruel and inhuman treatment”).
• Real men don’t sire illegitimate children. Girly Man Trump’s daughter Tiffany was born out of wedlock on October 23, 1993.
• Real men make their wives happy.  In virtually every photo where Girly Man Trump is standing near Melania, she looks like she just swallowed a moldy tomato. In pictures where she is half way across the US or in another country without Girly Man Trump, she has a beautiful smile that melts hearts. One can only imagine the humiliation a supermodel like Melania must have felt as reports of her husbands infidelity were published.
• Real men are willing to give women freedom. We have no idea what kind of agreement the Trumps have to keep their marriage going, probably at least through the election. However if Girly Man Trump has any human sensitivity and manhood, he’d give his wife her freedom so she could start over and find a real Mr. Man that could show her faithfulness and be capable of love.
• Real men tell the truth. Girly Man Trump has lied over 16,000 times in his first three years in office to the American people he is supposed to be serving.
• Real men take responsibility. Girly Man Trump regularly says, does or tweets something incredibly stupid. Then, the press does their job and dutifully reports it. Of course, Mr. Man Trump deservedly looks like an idiot. He then blames the press for reporting his stupidity. Girly Man Trump’s enemy isn’t the media, it is the truth.  Expect when the Trump’s announce their divorce, Girly Man will blame the press.
• Real men aren’t bullies. Making a fool of your wife who is campaigning against cyber-bullying while he is the world’s biggest bully doesn’t make Girly Man Trump look more masculine.
• Real men aren’t racists. Only a Girly Man would call Nazis very fine people and refer to Mexicans who come to the US as murderers, drug dealers and rapists.
• Real men are loyal to those who have their backs. Girly Man Trump abandoned our Kurd allies who had 11,000 deaths doing the dirty work of destroying ISIS for us. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kurds-gave-their-lives-to-defeat-the-islamic-state-trump-just-pissed-it-all-away
• Real men don’t break laws. Girly Man Trump broke two campaign finance laws trying to buy the silence of his sex partners. The Mueller Report identified ten more obstruction of justice laws that he broke. He also broke four US extortion laws in his attempt to get Ukraine’s president to announce an investigation of Joe Biden.
• Real men don’t campaign for pedophiles. Girly Man Trump campaigned aggressively for pedophile Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore.
• Real men don’t order the separation of parents who came to the US legally seeking asylum from their children and lock the children in cages hundreds of miles away.
• Real men don’t disparage the physical appearance of a rival candidate’s wife like Girly Man Trump did with Heidi Cruz. Especially, if like Mr. Man Trump, you are obscenely fat, have a ridiculous comb-over and orange skin.
• Real men don’t mock a reporter with a disability. Mr. Man Trump imitated New York Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski jerking his arms in front of his body. A real man with any semblance of intelligence would never deny doing this knowing it was on video. That certainly didn’t stop Girly Man Trump.
• Real men have consideration for other people. Mr. Man Trump called a grieving widow (Myeshia Johnson), whose Army husband had recently been killed in action and told her and others listening on speakerphone that her husband, “Knew what he signed up for.” Pure Girly Man Trump.
• Real men don’t have their rich dad get them a 4F Draft Deferment for a phony bone spur like Mr. Man Trump did to avoid going to Vietnam.
• Real men have compassion and are willing to help others in need. Girly Man Trump’s charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, was shut down by the New York Attorney General’s Office due to, “A shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.”
• Real men are confident enough of their own sexuality that they can accept gays for who they are as people.

Repulsiveness ≠ Masculinity

It is incomprehensible that anyone with Donald Trump’s behavior would be referred to as “Mr. Man”.  But, these are incomprehensible times.

The important thing for rational people is to not be overwhelmed by Donald Trump’s repugnant behavior and to start accepting it. Even more important is to make sure we teach and reinforce in our children and grandchildren the values of human decency.

Pete Buttigieg as President?

Back to Pete Buttigieg. He has an impeccable military record. He is Harvard and Oxford educated, is articulate and intellectually in the same league with Presidents Clinton and Obama. He clearly lays out progressive goals of what he wants to accomplish and how to get it done. No one questions his sincerity, integrity and honesty. He is the complete opposite of Donald Trump.

Unfortunately, Buttigieg is overly idealistic and flat out naive in believing he can get Republicans to work with him and that he can unite our country. Perhaps, the attacks on his sexuality by Republicans will be the reality slap in the face Buttigieg needs to understand the bigotry the great majority of Republicans stand for. Hopefully, he will come back older and wiser in a few years. 

Any Democratic presidential candidate needs to recognize that initiatives to slow global warming and improve the well being of the majority of US citizens will rise and fall on party lines votes. Roughly 37% of US voters are hard-core racists, so no one is going to unite this country. https://www.frugalron.com/racism-and-donald-trump/

If Jesus Christ came down to earth in heavenly glory and ran for president on a platform of peace, love, acceptance of strangers, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, healing the poor and criticizing the greed of the rich, Republicans would question His citizenship and then marginalize Him as an Obama Democrat.

Summing-up

So, what has Trump done for the good of others that might balance off the repugnant behavior detailed above?

Does Trump show any humanity by giving to charity out of the goodness of his heart without any expectation of personal gain? A 2016 Washington Post article, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/26/donald-trump-has-now-given-more-to-charity-in-the-last-four-months-than-in-the-previous-10-years-combined/

found Trump donated more money in the four months after getting the Republican presidential nomination than in the previous ten years. Some donations were made on high profile campaign visits. The totals include contributions to his Trump Foundation, which as noted above was later shut down because of fraud.

Some will claim Trump’s handling of the economy has benefitted the poor by providing them with jobs. However, we have a classic bubble economy. Like every Republican president from Reagan forward, Trump is trying to buy prosperity with massive government spending increases financed by huge deficits.

For comparison, President Obama’s average annual federal government spending increase was 2.8% over his eight-year term. Trump’s most recent annual spending increase is 6.6%. Obama’s last Net federal government saving was -$677 billion.  Trump’s most recent Net federal government savings is – $1.212 trillion. (Source: Bureau Economic Analysis, www.bea.gov; Table 3.2, lines 43 and 37).

Unfortunately, every other Republican attempt to buy prosperity with huge government debt financed expenditures has resulted in disastrous recessions. If anyone can provide a reason this bubble will end differently, please give me a reason in the comments section. I’m always open to learning new things.

Republicans will argue that Trump has appointed anti abortion judges to the Supreme Court and this outweighs his repulsive behavior. Unfortunately, between the internet, new technology and cheap air travel, any law outlawing abortion will be unenforceable for women with money. More detail is in the attached article. https://www.frugalron.com/abortion-sex-and-republicans/

One last point, my apologies to all the past winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I am sorry for those that earned this award for their efforts to improve the lives of others and saw the prestige of the award diminished by Trump’s giving it to Rush Limbaugh.