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He\u2019s a bitchy little queen. Such <\/i>a bitchy little queen. The make-up, the cattiness, the whining, and, especially, the resentment of successful women. Example #1001 occurred at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, when Donald Trump told CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins that she should \u201csmile more,\u201d called her award \u201cfake,\u201d bizarrely, and compared her to actress and trans activist Dylan Mulvaney. It made no sense, but that\u2019s the beautiful thing about being a Karen \u2013 you don\u2019t have to make sense, you just have to be aggrieved. And nobody has ever been more aggrieved than our billionaire president. <\/p>\n

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Collins handled the insults with far more graciousness than they deserved, telling Jon Stewart in the following days that she wasn\u2019t surprised by the insults, and saying of the president\u2019s response to her work, \u201cit\u2019s not really about me and I don\u2019t want it to be about my reaction. I think if you let it become about that, then it becomes a back-and-forth between the two of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s attacks on Collins are only the latest example of his going after reporters; This is a man who routinely calls journalists \u201ctraitors\u201d and the \u201cenemy of the people,\u201d sues them when he doesn\u2019t like their reporting, threatens, insults, and mocks them. But it\u2019s clear he retains a special focus on the women who cover him. From his gross menstrual blood remarks about Megyn Kelly during his first campaign to calling April Ryan a \u201closer\u201d to snapping \u201cquiet piggy\u201d at Bloomberg\u2019s Catherine Lucey, Trump appears to take special delight in denigrating women. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Which is why the condescending suggestion to Kaitlan Collins about smiling more rankles so badly. It\u2019s more than the blatant chauvinism. (I mean, has he ever told Peter Doocy to smile more?) It\u2019s the psychology beneath it. What Trump cannot have\u2013in this case, the adulation of CNN\u2019s young star reporter\u2013he attempts to take or destroy. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pattern we\u2019ve seen again and again. Trump has always treated women as objects of either supplication or amusement. Preferably both. <\/p>\n

After a lifetime of watching his boorish behavior, I\u2019m sure nobody was particularly surprised at Trump\u2019s crass remarks. Why would they be? But just because we are not surprised doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t maintain a modicum of shock. Not at him, but at our continued non-reactions to his abhorrent behavior.<\/p>\n

Why do so many of us continue to roll over and take it when this buffoon takes them to task for the crime of doing their jobs? <\/p>\n

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In the larger scheme of things, perhaps it doesn\u2019t matter much that our president took a couple unfunny swipes at a millionaire female reporter. Hell, it may even be a boon to her ratings. But what does matter is what every previous president but this one has understood: that a Commander-in-Chief\u2019s words affect more than those at whom they were directed. Leaders set the tone. When a leader sets a sexist tone, sexist acts follow. When a leader sets a violent tone, violent acts follow. When a leader sets a stupid tone, stupid acts follow. In this president\u2019s case, it\u2019s all three. <\/p>\n

And yet here we are, having endured a decade of this man\u2019s antics without a single journalist standing up in the Oval Office and telling him to f\u2013k all the way off when he insults one of their own. Presumably it\u2019s because they have too much \u201crespect for the office\u201d to ever do so, but from this fella\u2019s point of view, if you respect the office so much you need to tell a person utterly demeaning that office that he needs to f\u2013k all the way off. <\/p>\n

Trump understands better than most that the press is too feckless to ever do such a thing because they need him as much as he needs them. He\u2019s not wrong when he boasts about being the best thing for cable news; he understands that spectacle\u2013the more lowbrow the better\u2013will always win the contest for our attention. It\u2019s why people like me keep writing columns like this. <\/p>\n

Which puts me in the uncomfortable position of arguing against the very things that keep me employed. I don\u2019t have a solution other than not electing this guy in the first place. Now that he\u2019s in office, though, I really don\u2019t understand pretending he\u2019s just a normal occupant who does normal president things? I don\u2019t understand why the press continues to give him the benefit of the doubt, why they report anything he says as factual, or why somebody doesn\u2019t sock him in the mouth. (Ok, I fully understand why nobody socks him in the mouth, although it would have been nice if somebody had done so when he was a private citizen.) <\/p>\n

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Michelle Obama told Democrats to take the high road when they go low. That didn\u2019t work. Nothing works because too many people enjoy the Trump carnival, even when we profess disgust at it. Which is why the worst insults in this era don\u2019t come from the man himself\u2014not even from his followers so emboldened to take things to the next level. They come from our own inability to respond. The greatest insult is that we keep falling for the same dumb, attention-grabbing tricks Sideshow Don continues to ply on us rubes. Kaitlan Collins may have gotten the business, but the country as a whole continues to suffer the consequences. <\/p>\n

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