Misogynist President Continues Sinister Practice of Giving Women Extremely Important Jobs

Female White House staffers allegedly subjected to power, prestige, and impossible levels of responsibility.

Last week, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she’d be stepping down from her position at the end of the month—on account of having a newborn and a toddler who she would very much enjoy spending time with. You know, since she’s their mother.

The Daily Mail used Leavitt’s leaving as a springboard for a deep dive into Trump’s sexist, tyrannical ruling style.

“You have to be exceptional at your job, which is a given, but if you’re a woman you have to look a certain way, dress a certain way and be available 24/7, because this is a President who barely sleeps,” one unnamed ‘burned-out employee’ told the Mail.

So, the guys can be corpulent, toothless slobs who show up to Cabinet meetings in basketball shorts and Crocs and let calls from POTUS roll straight to voicemail?

Oh, to be Pete Hegseth!

Leavitt, the Mail would have you know, is hardly an outlier. The outlet goes on to name six other women who’ve departed Trump’s orbit since January: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson, and Director of Media Affairs Sonny Joy Nelson.

Do you want to know the real reason why so many women are departing Trump’s orbit?

Because Trump keeps putting women in his orbit.

Me: “If Trump is such a miserable misogynist, why does he keep flinging power at gals like Mardi Gras beads?”

The Daily Mail: “But have you seen how much they spend at Drybar?”

Trump’s raging chauvinism certainly has an odd way of expressing itself. He appointed Susie Wiles the first female White House chief of staff in American history. Kellyanne Conway was the first woman to manage a winning presidential campaign. Karoline Leavitt was the youngest White House press secretary ever. Meanwhile, Trump entrusted actual biological women with running the Justice, Homeland Security, National Intelligence and Labor departments, made his daughter a senior White House advisor, and twice tapped ladies to lead his presidential campaigns. At this rate, someone may need to explain misogyny to the man.

Don’t know if this is true but I’m LingOL.

While the Mail piece tries to paint a picture of desperate, dehumanized dames fleeing Mar-a-Lago barefoot through the hedges, let’s check in with reality for a sec. Gabbard resigned after her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. Bondi and Noem didn’t buckle under the crushing weight of maintaining runway-ready MAGA manes; Trump fired them. Chavez-DeRemer left while under investigation over allegations that included an affair with a subordinate, drinking on the job, and using staff for personal errands. Nelson excused herself to start her own communications firm while pregnant with her second child; Jackson took another job.

Somebody call Gloria Steinem.

“But perhaps it is little wonder,” the Mail mused unironically. “Quite aside from the normal pressures of a high-powered job in government, 80-year-old Trump is a man known for objectifying women (who can forget his famous ‘grab her by the p***y’ remark?), who is infamous for demanding total fealty, has unrelenting, exacting standards, and who sleeps only four hours a night.”

One has to wonder: do the women applying for White House jobs think they’re signing up for some super-chill hybrid gig with Summer Fridays, unlimited PTO, and a boss who’s going to be cool with the HARRIS/WALZ bumper sticker on their Subaru?

It’s been established that Trump barely sleeps. He calls people at insane hours. He expects immediate replies. He’s demanding, impatient, and apparently believes that if you’re employed by the President of the United States, your schedule should generally accommodate the President of the United States.

That’s not a Trump problem. That’s an Extremely Important Job problem.

CEOs miss bedtime and birthdays. Surgeons get called in at midnight. Field journalists spend Christmas in countries their families couldn’t find on a map. Active-duty military travel for months at a stretch. Presidential aides cancel vacations. People who choose extraordinarily demanding careers occasionally discover that the cost is more than they’re willing to pay. Sometimes women in particular make that calculation and choose their families. That’s not proof that the patriarchy defeated them. It’s evidence that they’re adults who get to decide what matters most to them. Which—unless feminism has undergone another reboot without putting out a press release—I sort of thought was the point.

The funniest part comes late in the piece, when the Mail finally acknowledges that Trump doesn’t actually require women to get 6 a.m. blowouts, plastic surgery, Botox, fillers, or weight-loss injections. Shockingly, the women are doing these things all by their little lonesomes, because the White House is competitive and we live in a society where these things exist. Alas, the same culture that spent years insisting women could climb every ladder, shatter every glass ceiling, and occupy the most powerful offices in the country draws the line at looking hot doing it.

And then there’s the hypocrisy. An article promising to reveal precisely how looks-obsessed POTUS is devotes roughly 25 column inches to obsessing over Trump administration staffers’ looks. “Beautiful.” “Glamazons.” “Perfectly manicured.” “Fiercely chic.” “Impossibly leggy and glamorous.”

But please, Mr. President. For the love of God, stop objectifying women.

Can you imagine conservatives penning something like this during the Biden era?

INSIDE BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE: Why Are So Many Powerful Democratic Women Frumpy?

THE SENSIBLE-SHOE SQUAD: Meet the Women Running Washington Despite a Troubling Lack of Fashion Sense

FROM GLAMAZON TO AMAZON PRIME: How Democrats Made Looking Like You Just Got Back From COSTCO a Qualification for Public Office

To their credit, the Mail repeatedly acknowledges that Trump’s model squad isn’t exactly a bunch of brainless bimbos. They’re variously described as “highly intelligent,” “exceptional,” “brilliant,” “feisty,” “impressive” and “effective.”

So let me make sure I understand the feminist fury here: Trump surrounds himself with beautiful women. Who are also hard-working, spirited, and bordering on genius. He gives them tremendous responsibility. And then he expects them to perform at an extremely high level.

The monster.

Historically speaking, turnover is routine across the board in D.C. Presidents burn through chiefs of staff, press secretaries, and Cabinet appointees at a consistent clip regardless of party. The difference is that Trump puts women in positions where the press actually cares who’s in the chair—and then the media spins the exits as Proof that POTUS Is a Pig rather than the ordinary revolving door every White House runs.

I realize we’re not supposed to say this out loud, but somebody has to: we went from ugly and incompetent to beautiful and badass, and somehow women are the victims here. They fought for generations to get into the room—and now left-wing pundits are horrified on their behalf that the jobs they got are demanding, the hours suck, and nobody particularly cares about work-life balance. It’s giving serious Private Benjamin energy: “I’m sorry, I joined a different White House. The one with the yachts.”

Unhinged liberals love to compare the Trump administration to The Handmaid’s Tale. I must’ve missed the season where the women were being given corner offices, senior advisory roles, security details, and the freedom to walk away whenever they want. Fetch the red cloak—the President’s personal assistant had to answer an email after dinner.