"The Trump movement has a distinct aesthetic, one in which even women in high-ranking positions have endeavored to make themselves look as doll-like as possible, lest anyone mistake them for professionals elevated by virtue of their experience and skills." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
The misogyny comes fast and furious. Anything real to make men's lives better? Not so much.
All aboard for Stepford.
Stepford Wives, but with silicone enhancement
It is in so many forms and international. How is he allowed to get away with so much, the world wonders.
A woman's looks are more important to mediocre men who don't want to be seconded by a woman's intellect. This is an archaic pattern of patriarchal thinking where women are showcased & put on exhibition to display the wealth & power of the man she accompanies. youtube.com/live/2yUQ6Qc...
Women in the Trump administration are props and nothing else; just as POC are showcased to prove Trump isn't racist; we know better. Women may appear "marginally qualified" on paper but when it hits the fan ... he'll throw every one of them under the bus.
Trump has zero loyalty to anyone.
It pains me to say shit about my fellow women, but these Trump Republican women are absolutely awful and embarrassing. It’s not by chance that Trump has women in certain positions of power - Noem, Bondi and the WH press bimbo - that require the most stupid blind following of dear leader.
On the bright side, "fundie baby frocks" are now widely recognized as a Christian Nationalist dog whistle
Chucky doll-like.
Well to be fair no one in Trump’s circle has experience or skill.
Oh come on, just say it. They're not trying to look like dolls... They're trying to look like blow up sex dolls.
Republicans like their women unwoke and their children unborn.
DEI now stands for Doll-Like, Empty-Headed, Ingenue.
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social last March slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait
Kristi Noem and fascism's sadistic eroticization of power
It's been obvious from the moment Roger Ailes (known sexual harasser) made it known that no woman who wasn't busty, gorgeous and blonde (and with an unintimidating intellect) was allowed on his network what the American right thought of women.
I cringe when I see these women. Still playing at being OBJECTS.
They have to uphold the "central casting" look.
Funny, there are a lot of men who are well-adjusted in spite of female competition. How many of these disaffected MAGA men have done anything to improve their lot? Things like an education—college or trade school. It doesn’t just come to you. In today’s world, you have to work for it.
They are the new Manson girls: Susan/Squeaky
His model for this aesthetic is his first wife, Ivana. He has been this way since the 1980’s.
If women don't like men controlling them maybe don't sucker for the disfigured fat lip and zombie forehead procedures.
A picture is worth 1000 words. South Park is worth 1000 laughs.
You don't see trump nominating Virginia Foxx or Harriet Hageman for any top, playing to the camera, positions.
They all wind up looking so creepy.
the last thing the world needs is more of is racist, cheaters and woman abusers
Trump is a coward afraid of his shadow.
He should be.
Neither the women nor the men in Trump’s regime never need to worry that anyone will mistake them for professionals elevated by virtue of experience and skill.
Women in Christian Nationalism/patriarchy are only there for the pleasure of a man’s gaze, sex, and as breeders. That is it. That is the only value they have. And interestingly enough, these are the same men that would say they prefer a woman that wears no makeup, while these women are caked in it
Thank you for finally saying it.
The only thing 'masculine' the GOP has to offer is seething hatred of women. That's it.
And it was obvious - who the hell thinks Tiny Hands and Couch Boy are symbols of masculinity? All they've got is misogyny.
Yep. My brother grew up with no father. He made up his own male identity - this is one of many target groups. And he fell for it hook, line and sinker. Men who are looking how to define their masculinity. Narcissist are another group whether alcoholism is the cause or other factors.
Women dress and style for other women. Women change their appearance so that other women will think they look YOUNG and stylish. What these women don’t grasp is that MOST women and men are appalled by their appearance. It looks pretty painful.
I knew that 🐽
Being a Trendsetter before anyone noticed the trend. I knew I had it in me💋
Tragically, sadly, infuriatingly, it actually got 12,000 likes at the time of the writing...
"The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote."
The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...
I don't think so. 'Manly' men and 'womanly' women IS the maga esthetic but it's to reinforce roles more than anything else
Puppy killer will be asked to go back to the kitchen after the curerent emergency is resolved
@realdonaldtrump likes all his women to look like blow-up dolls.
I notice the woman in a Toyota commercial looks a bit like Kristi Noem. Is this now a fashion trend?
I suspect a lot of it is that the Trump goons aren't even as concerned with what they find attractive so much as having a trophy that best checks the boxes of "attractive," so you end up w women who make themselves into what an AI would produce if you asked for a "hot woman."
An uncanny humonculous
Gale Sheehy might say these women froze in the “pleasing daddy” phase of life—trading power suits for pageant looks to appease patriarchs. It's not leadership, it's lifestyle cosplay: Stepford meets statecraft, where ambition wears mascara and never outshines the boss.
I just realized the post says “doll like” … only if your doll of choice is a partially melted knock-off Barbie
Always a bit amazed by the number of people who fall for it when these types of crises are declared by those who in all likelihood also are promoting solutions to the newly formed “crisis” or whose political narrative is advanced by the existence of a so-called crisis. It’s total BS.
The aesthetic reflects a worldview that places men at the top and women below, as a subservient, decoration piece.
Definitely beauty pageant aesthetic. All that’s missing is the Vaseline on the teeth.
Ugh
It’s because they don’t have experience and skills.
Their priority work is on themselves, regarding looks. Contrived, cartoonish, fake, cultish, exhibitionist performers.
Wow, that is the best way to put all that good job.
Is it that or is it that they have to look a certain way to get the attention of the orange shitstain?
I have reviewed an electronic file that includes some of the information Senator Whitehouse is demanding from the Bureau of Prisons.
I don’t remember dolls looking like porn stars. Maybe Real Dolls
Trump spent $200M with a PR/Advertising firm out of Louisiana to promote Noem and ICE actions including the commercials he's played. No bid was given prior to the expense. It was reported Cory Lewandowski recommended the firm...
Whiny, baby boys whose mommies and coaches have told them they were smarter, more handsome, more athletic, and more desirable finding out they have to actually compete for schools and jobs. And they have to compete with girls and black and brown boys. 🙀 Pathetic.
Great article!
Tump and his sycophants are punk a**ed btches who are soft af. Losers. Stay home wimps!
Oh, men have absolutely convinced us that the only way out, is to refuse to even look at them, and to intentionally cause the extinction of the human race. I did my part. Zero crotch goblins. Ladies, we play our cards right, and this shit is over in 100 years.
No wonder he hated Angela Merkel
Correction: sex doll like
Dolls with machine guns, that is
Doll like? More like blow up sex doll.
not just the Trumpy women...
..."The truth is that contemporary conservatism betrays today’s men by telling them that they are entitled to receive respect and admiration from women, along with the financial fruits of a wealthy society, without giving much of anything in return."
The only doll these trump women remind me of is Chuckie
The Mar-a-Lago Look: what sane person would cut themselves up to please someone so ugly as to be a freak of nature?
Roxy Music wrote a song about a blow-up doll, "In Every Dream Home a Heartache." Doesn't end well!
Tacky like he has ruined our Whitehouse...
"…women in high-ranking positions have endeavored to make themselves look as doll-like as possible…"
Textbook case: DHS Barbie Noem
Ran that pic through ChatGPT -- it knows that's Trmp, but doesn't recognize her, even after all her personal promotion at taxpayer expense. "A woman with long wavy brown hair...Behind her is a large vertical banner featuring a close-up image of Dnald Tr*mp’s face"
Only most of them end up looking like a Garbage pail kid or this doll
It's creepy.
TBF, the women Trump has put in high-ranki positions are no more qualified than the men.
Excellent article
It's so gross
A conference of dunces, a confederacy of stupidity. An embarrassment to women and men who strive for professionalism through thought and deed.
A global stain current and past of the far right. Morons with megaphones.
Crisis of Manhood? Trump/Maga whine about everything. Are afraid of everything. And suffer from penis envy.
They ain’t solving manhood
These women have taken all women back a half century. We fought to reach the glass ceiling on merit not appearance. F them all🤬
Giving these vibes.
Just like the Fox women
I see these women all over - the filler making them look like a Bratz doll. Filler “migrates”, because gravity works, and it’s a BAD THING for your looks and health. WTF is that 💩 made of anyway? It can’t possibly be good for you…
Doll like? Do you mean Annabelle doll like? Republicans GOP Pissy Kristi Noem notorious puppy killer.
They are the devils advocates
There’s a Twilight Zone episode called “Number 12 Looks Just like You”. It’s about mandatory cosmetic surgery from a catalog of acceptable looks. The main protagonist tries to refuse the surgery.
The bourgeois woman clings to class privileges. It is drilled into her & she believes women’s liberation would weaken bourgeois society…she feels no solidarity with working-class women: she feels closer to her husband than to a woman textile worker & makes his interests her own. —Simone de Beauvoir
Stepford Wives. They vote like their husbands ORDER them to vote. Saw it in the South when I was stationed there. And there are the Evangelical crowd that thinks no woman, regardless of political party, should ever be POTUS.
You mean the Mar-a-lago special?
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Mar a Lago face. Pock marked skin hidden under layers of foundation that’s not even in the right zip code. Trout lips, beach ball boobs, tippy toppy stilettos, dead eyes under heavy black eyeliner.
Those are the scariest looking dolls I have ever seen.
And what I think is interesting of all these women and especially the ones that they show at the Trump’s Florida country club —they all look the same. They all get the same lip job and boob job. They trying to erase their individuality and their humanity.
It’s a reality show that he casts. Janet Yellen was too short remember? It’s all about tv and smothering the airwaves every damn day and the media just sucks it up.
It’s a grotesque look, one only men who have no soul can appreciate. Men who actually love women don’t even care for make-up.
Exactly.
It’s weird
O ba ba!
Excellent essay, thanks!
The only necessary qualification for Trump is fealty.
Well, Blondi Bondi is a bottle blonde, but at 59 she needs an eye lift to fit in.
Fantastic piece.
Stepford and trophy wives are non-threatening, compliant and rely on their johns for support. It's why the thought of slavery came so easily to right wing fascists: they own everything.
I did read! Obviously Trump isn't the solution, but I didn't feel you did justice to the problem, especially the academic and social skills cis-gender gap.
They look like freaks. Not dolls. Freaks.
People are angry at Trump, as they should.
He has failed his country
People should be more angry with Republicans in Congress who have turned their backs on their constituents, their oath of office, their country, their families, their children & their church.
Unlike Trump, they know better
The Stepford Wives, now playing at the White House .
Kristi Noem is 53 Pam Bondi is 59
There also “appears” to be a requirement for injections and sculpting, lifting and conturing.
Deplorable.
I swear leavitt asked her plastic surgeon for the "child pageant face"
That’s not a doll. Thats a succubus.
Its so easy to pick them out cuz they all look fake as hell.
M3GAN’s all of them
Children can exhibit narcissistic traits as early as 2 years old, but these traits are often part of normal development. Trump never grew out of this stage! And about misogyny - I think Trump hates everyone and everything equally because he wants respect but behaves so badly he'll never get it.
How creepy.
It is a rush to be next Bride of Wildenstein.
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DJT has a fetish for plastic women? Buy him a few dolls. Maybe that will keep him busy & he'll go away.
well, they don’t have experience and skills, and looking like a doll is what got them the job. without that, even desperate sycophancy doesn’t help (too sad for elise stefanik who clearly didn’t try hard enough on the doll-part).
Dolls from a horror movie!
America fucking blew it and it sucks.
“Doll like”? She looks like she was beat in the face with a (porcelain) doll. That’s as close to doll like that she can get. Hideous beast.
Sure? I have nothing against a pretty face. However, I'd like to believe there's more than just AIR behind it! DHS SEC. I DARE YOU to ask her where she was during the last Texas FLOOD⁉️ When all those camping children DROWND, FEMA was unable to deploy w/o DHS approval over $100,000.00 outrageous 📞
Nailed it Shame
A reminder that last year, the Trump campaign accused Kamala Harris of sleeping her way to the top. Every accusation is projection on the part of the GOP.
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The only thing keeping that bitches head from sagging is all the air in her lips. She didn’t get there by being qualified
It’s a freak show.
"Crisis of manhood" LMFAO! Man, they won't let up with this very old lie.
Sounds like them DEI hires maga is always whining about.
Most of them could never fake being professionals elevated by experience or skill. They have no idea what that looks like.
When Marjorie TG is calling out her own MAGA GOP on how badly they treat the women of their party, that's telling.
What is the psychological reasoning behind what these women are doing to all look this way? Are they required by someone in the administration to do this? They look doll like in the sense that they have an empty expression, but it's not appealing. They seem robotic and lacking in empathy.
Even some liberal MSM hosts have flirted with the Trump Look and it’s creepy. Glad someone finally wrote this. And put it in context.
Nobody could ever mistake any one of them for that; regardless of what they look like.
Phony huskies 🤬
It's a travesty how the Trump cult has gotten women to buy into MAGA's abject misogyny. The prominent females like Noem are the prime models for alterations that fit a curated ideal: a cartoon mockery. The gun props & tough talk attract MAGA morons. Her real function is the exaggerated image.
MAGA is a cartoon movement. Their ideas, their images, their representatives are all cartoons.
Stepford blowup wives. With 3 sets of trout lips for all areas, giving easy access for real macho, misogynistic white, Jesus loving supremacy goons.
When they indulge in plastic surgery they all end up looking like they are from the same gene pool. Scary.
That's why they had to pave the rose garden. Women in Trump's administration are expected to wear stiletto shoes. This doesn't really work on grass.
Sorry, but the Trump women are the worst of them: liars, skanks, whores.
The definition of manhood does not include being a 34 felony count convicted rapist or a pedophile who rapes young girls, just so we're crystal clear.
He shouldn't be allowed to operate a weiner.
I know right??
Here, Aaron. I'm commenting on this because nobody comments on your posts.
To be fair Krissy’s been pumping plastic into that face for years before Jabba came along. Corey Lewandowski just convinced her to speed it up…probably for his own reasons though!🤔😏😂
Very well put
That tactic by Trump women hadn't struck me before. But so very true.
Oh no! The straight white men that our society, culture, education, and laws have EXCLUSIVELY pandered to since the nation's founding are having a "crisis". Why? Because they're being forced to recognize that people other than themselves exist and have a right to equally participate in society.
The podcast In Bed With The Right had a great episode on this pca.st/episode/3158...
Dei?
Gross lips are mandatory
If nothing else, he has a type.
Yep. Remember when that Alina Habba told a reporter she’d rather be pretty than smart?
Monster dolls. Collect the set!
"doll-like"?! Noem looks like she has cement injected in her face. And don't get me started on that fake ass weave.
Drag queens baby.
Almost none of the admin’s women, even sans the MAGA makeover, would be mistaken for professionals elevated by virtue of their experience or skill. That applies to the men too.
I wonder when her face will fall off and slither to the door again..
American Girl Dolls all have a back story and occupation.
I know Susie Wiles is never in camera but how do we explain McMahon?😆
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Facelift, eyelid surgery, fillers, Botox, laser treatments, jaw implants ... the list goes on.
It's been called the Mar-a-lago face. Women are spending a minimum of $ 100,000 to obtain this look, and that doesn't include maintenance, which can run into the thousands.
Women will lose their voting rights but still be able to work as long as they look good.
“I want people to think I slept my way to the top” does not sound like a meritocracy to me.
an important read, thank you
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Unfortunately the “ dolls” look like Chucky!!😂😂
Gee, I wonder why the doll-like look is a requirement to work in the administration.
That would be one interesting doll. I don’t see it flying off the shelves of KB Toys 😬
Well written, thanks.
I think a combination of #PedoconTheory and White Replacement fears explains it the most. The women in TrumpWorld have to look sexually appealing in a very specific, Barbie-doll manner that almost has childlike elements of "got into mommy's makeup".
The Real-Housewives of Mar-a-Lago are like the WH ballroom in motion
Doll-like? Not like any dolls I ever had. The aesthetic is upscale streetwalker or professional escort. They do what they are told without question for their paycheck. That is the aesthetic.
That is MAGA DUI - but there’s another aspect, they not only look like dolls but they must also behave like dolls, as in they must be ditzy and dumb and praise their master at every turn. And they must have a lot of costumes like Cosplay Barbie 😂
That huge banner of his mugshot behind the puppy killer really just sums up the banality and stupidity of this wannabe Nazi regime
The trump version of meritocracy.
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