Mary Trump turned the latest Republican debate over “masculinity” back on her uncle, President Donald Trump, with a “real man” zinger.
The clinical psychologist slammed her relative in the latest edition of her Substack newsletter while responding to Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) questioning of the masculinity of Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.
Read the full essay on Substack.
“Apparently we are supposed to believe Ted Cruz is now the nation’s foremost authority on masculinity,” she wrote. “Personally, I do not care. It seems like an odd qualification for public office. What are they going to do? Arm wrestle? Challenge each other to duels?”
“Fight in a cage match on the White House lawn?” she added, a sarcastic nod to the controversial UFC fight card that the president hosted on his 80th birthday on Sunday.
“But if we are defining masculinity, I would have thought one basic requirement would be defending your spouse when another man publicly attacks her,” Mary Trump continued, a nod to her uncle’s personal attacks on Cruz’s wife, Heidi, during the 2016 presidential election and the senator’s subsequent endorsement of his onetime rival.
She then delivered a pointed swipe at the president.
“What do I know?” she wrote. “I grew up in a family with Donald Trump, who knows absolutely nothing about being a real man.”
