Remember Trump's Abject Submission to Putin at Helsinki

Trump pretends he’s “The Man” but it’s all make-believe. Here are some images that tell the story.

A float in the Düsseldorf Carnival on February 12, 2018, seven months after Trump submitted to Putin at Helsinki, used the mounting metaphor to show the relationship between Putin and Trump.

Donald Trump is ordering that his “vision” of American history mist replace accurate depictions of the nation’s past at Smithsonian museums. Presumably, that will mean museum exhibits will depict George Washington seizing British airports during the American Revolution and that the United States did not purchase Alaska from Russia.

“You know, I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday,” Trump told reporters on Monday of his trip “North to Alaska” to meet the war criminal.

Trump constantly spews fake news and he wants America’s past to be fake olds.

The greatest fake thing about him is his pretending to be a “real man.” He boasts about what he alleges is the size of his penis. He mocks other men as being unmanly. He sees women as objects—playthings. Here are a few of the images he has posted as he seeks to deal with his case of the psychological malady I have named AMID (Acute Masculine Insecurity Disorder):

Tsar Vladimir I also cosplays at being a “real man”:

Putin’s penchant for being photographed with guns, bare-chested, tiger-hunting, swimming vigorously, wrestling with bears and leopards, and so forth, is clearly intended to present an image that he is a real мужик—a “manly man” [мужественный человек]. Putin himself has essentially admitted that he has been weaving a “real man” image with his stunts. “Sure, the leopard had been sedated,” he told a reporter in 2012.

When two such males meet, it becomes a contest of who will force whom to take the subordinate, “female” role. Here is an example after two male Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep have fought for dominance:

When these two last met, at Helsinki in 2017, Ttump basically “presented” for Putin to “mount” him, a fact neatly depicted in the 2018 Düsseldorf Carnival float pictured at the top of this essay.

Humans, though, can use hand gestures in lieu of actual mounting to show which is asserting “I am The Man and you are the woman,” as the gentleman below is doing:

The shape Mr. Trump made with his hands while sitting next to Mr. Putin in Helsinki perfectly symbolized, in the sexist views they both hold, how that meeting turned out for these two “masculinists”:

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