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The conservative politics of beauty and thinnessDonald Trump never hid his misogyny from us. The Republican presidential nominee said that Rosie O’Donnell has a “fat ugly face” and that Kim Kardashian has a “fat ass.” He called former Miss Universe Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy” and declared that his daughter, Ivanka Trump, has “the best body.” Hillary Clinton’s campaign evoked the troubling implications of electing such a man to the US presidency with its “Mirrors” television spot, in which a series of young women look at themselves reproachfully in the mirror while a Trump voiceover intones various judgments about women’s bodies.
Updated July 21, 20226 min read