VIEWPOINT | Trump the dude? Not quite
Op-ed by Froma Harrop
“Stormy Daniels Put Trump's Toxic Horniness on Full Display,” read a Daily Beast headline. What has really been put on display is Donald Trump’s desperate need to portray himself as a hunk with an awesome sex drive. He’s done that his entire adult life. Now that he’s an obese man of 77, the urgency to come off as a young buck has never been greater.
As psychiatrist Peter Kramer wrote in his book “Should You Leave?” “We all know that older men need younger women not because the men still have it but because they don’t; it takes something special to get them started.”
And for Trump it’s not just younger women. They have to be models or porn stars or Playboy Playmates. Talk about requiring extra arousal.
Even when he was still handsome and in his 30s, Trump would hang around Studio 54 to mix with the teen models. He later set up his own agency, Trump Models. Accused of cheating the models over matters of contracts and pay, the company was shut down in 2017.
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