It's bad enough that Trump assaulted women, but what's even more interesting is that the ones he assaulted, the ones having come forward in recent weeks, thereby validating what was until then mere self-aggrandizing braggadocio, are, according to him, not up to his standard of beauty, or Hotness, which may be the correct term. Not sure.
His Hotness standard is likely related to his wealth and famousness: a wealthy and famous man would be expected to assault only very hot subjects. Certainly, it would be embarrassing for such a man to assault below his social standing. So the interesting part of this to me is that contrary to his boasting, he doesn't even respect his own standard of Hotness and will throw it over, when circumstances demand, and assault without concern for appropriate Hotness, settling for the status-challenging compromises of "mere" sixes or sevens! I would have expected him to have, based on his public statements, an assault floor of nine or even ten.
What’s also disturbing is that he may be hoping the public doesn’t notice how he has avoided acknowledging the role time can play in the changing Hotness of an assault subject, that their present Hotness may not be an accurate reflection of the Hotness they possessed at the time he assaulted them. Is it really acceptable to insult an assault subject some years later with taunts of low-hotness, when in fact they may have been significantly more hot, and therefore justifiably assaulted, in the past? Can he have his cake and eat it too?
Finally the question becomes: What kind of president would such a person make? A person who during frank discussion of his escapades would slickly change the subject when it comes to the time-related transience of personal Hotness, who implicitly insults someone who’s hotness has changed of never having been hot, or who simply ignores his own standards of acceptable assault hotness when expedience calls, but brags about his class-appropriate discrimination when the Howard Sterns and Billy Bushs egg him on?
Is this the kind of President we want? Is it the kind that Vladimir Putin would want for our country? The kind that we deserve?
I say no.