UFC head Dana White, the wife beater, is “a fighter.” North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is “very tough,” while China’s Xi Jinping is “strong.” Elon Musk, the transphobe who has turned X into a megaphone for bigotry, is a “genius.” So said Donald Trump during his 75-minute live-streamed interview with Adin Ross, the 23-year-old gamer and influencer.

The verbs and adjectives for all of the women they discussed were very different. Kamala Harris was said to be “weak” and “stupid”; Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Occasion-Cortez were “crazy”; and AOC was described as “ranting” and “screaming.” And, of course, there was that appellation Trump applies to every woman—most famously to Hillary Clinton in their final debate in 2016—who doesn’t supplicate themselves before him: “nasty.”

In other words, the interview was vintage Trump—the latest of a million-plus examples proving that, no matter how many smarmy advisers and gullible political reporters insist otherwise, he is incapable of changing who he is for political expediency. He’s an out-and-proud misogynist who intends to appeal to closeted misogynists—and no one should be happier about that fact than Kamala Harris.

Despite their 55-year age difference, Ross and Trump have a lot in common. For starters, both are obsessed with fame and money. Trump praised Ross for his contract deals and net worth, to which Ross, clad in an identical Trump suit complete with matching red tie, responded, “I’m tryin’ t’get like you, boss.” They kept........

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