Donald Trump, 79, has discovered a new talent: invisibility. Not his own, but that of the women around him. Since he entered politics, he claims, he never mentions women\u2019s looks anymore. Never. Not even if \u201cthe most beautiful woman in the world walks right past him.\u201d He would not even look. A man with tunnel vision - except the tunnel leads straight into his own archive. The claim belongs roughly in the category of \u201cI stopped drinking alcohol after I invented whisky.\u201d Trump\u2019s political career is littered with comments about women\u2019s hair, faces, bodies, age, and attractiveness, usually wrapped in mockery, often as attack, never by accident. Anyone who wants to have forgotten all that either suffers from selective amnesia or has a very creative understanding of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That he delivers this declaration to a visibly confused audience sounds less like self-control than like unintentional comedy. The man who has commented on everything that did not escape to the golf course within three seconds now wants to be the ascetic of equality. No glance, no word, no judgment. One has to picture it: Trump in the room, women walking past, and he stares with iron discipline into nothingness. A monument to self-denial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n