Opinion | Trumps Basest Impulse: A Dominating Kind of Masculinity

President Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him attention, elections and the support of manosphere influencers from Andrew Tate to Joe Rogan.In this episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy editor of Times Opinion, Patrick Healy, speaks with columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom about what Trump’s focus on gender means for men, women, minorities and American politics.This episode was recorded before President Trump’s Friday meeting in the Oval Office with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.Below is a lightly edited transcript of an episode of “The Opinions.” We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect.

You can do so using the player above or on the NYT Audio app, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.Patrick Healy: This is The First 100 Days, a weekly series examining President Trump’s use of power and his drive to change America.Donald Trump spent a lot of time during the 2024 campaign really courting what’s called the manosphere — going on these podcasts with Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson and trying to talk directly to male American voters of different ages, and zeroing in on what he saw as their frustrations, their grievances.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe....