"Stormy Daniels Put Trump's Toxic Horniness on Full Display," read a Daily Beast headline. What has really been put on display is Donald Trump 's desperate need to portray himself as a hunk with an awesome sex drive. He's done that his entire adult life.
Now that he's an obese man of 77, the urgency to come off as a young buck has never been greater. As psychiatrist Peter Kramer wrote in his book "Should You Leave?" "We all know that older men need younger women not because the men still have it but because they don't; it takes something special to get them started." And for Trump it's not just younger women.
They have to be models or porn stars or Playboy Playmates. Talk about requiring extra arousal. Even when he was still handsome and in his 30s, Trump would hang around Studio 54 to mix with the teen models.
He later set up his own agency, Trump Models. Accused of cheating the models over matters of contracts and pay, the company was shut down in 2017. Since biblical times and before, insecure men have strived to put young beauties on their arm as evidence of their being very much in the game.
And face it, many stunning women attach themselves to men with a lot of money, mainly to partake of the money. Which brings us to Melania. Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen testified in the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial that he asked his boss how the story of his tryst with a porn actress would "go upstairs," meaning with his wife.
"Don't worry," Trump reportedly replied. "How lon.