Sirens of Tyrant
The Wicked Women of Trump Land
Donald Trump says, “I Respect Women, I Love Women, I Cherish Women.” But does he really? Last November, he deflected a question from Catherine Lucey of Bloomberg News with a blunt, “Quiet, piggy.” More recently, he insulted Kaitlan Collins of CNN by calling her “the worst reporter,” adding, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile.”
Debbie Walsh of Rutgers University told the BBC Trump’s demeaning remarks toward women are part of a pattern, noting, “he talks about women, any prominent, powerful woman, in the most demeaning of ways, trivialising them.”
Trump disrespects women, but not men. Contrast his comments about women with his rapturous paean to a golfer’s penis. “Although it is common for political candidates to name-check hometown heroes during their travels,” wrote Seema Mehta of the Los Angeles Times, “Trump’s focus on (Arnold) Palmer’s genitalia was peculiar.”
Trump values a certain kind of female, according to Walsh, who notes those closest to him “have the appearance of a kind of hyper-feminised version of women”. Trump prefers women who are attractive, compliant, and evil – like the women of Trump Land:
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt, history’s youngest White House Press Secretary, began her career as an intern at Fox News. After running unsuccessfully for Congress as “a Generation Z conservative,” she joined Trump’s 2024 campaign as press secretary, a role she continued in the West Wing.
Leavitt followed Sean Spicer, Trump’s first White House Press Secretary, whose “crowd size” debut defined his tenure, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The latter brought more combativeness to the role and once demanded White House reporters begin questions on Thanksgiving by first stating something they were thankful for.
“While this may be hard to believe,” writes Klaus Marre for WhoWhatWhy, “Karoline Leavitt is much worse.” “Leavitt is dishonest by default,” he adds. “If Trump weren’t also occasionally in the White House, she would probably be the most proficient liar there.” That’s why she’s there.
Tulsi Gabbard
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard “has fallen in and out of favor at different times during the first year of the Trump administration,” reported The New York Times. “But with the renewed investigation into baseless claims about fraud during the 2020 election, she is back in the spotlight, and Mr. Trump’s good graces.”
Gabbard, reported Alan Cunningham of New Eastern Europe in 2022, “claimed that US law enforcement had been weaponised ‘to target the political opponents of the … Biden regime’, a move which had the ‘hallmarks of a dictatorship’”.
“While it is one thing for Gabbard to voice her own views,” notes Cunningham, “this becomes rather problematic considering her position as a Commissioned Officer in the US Army Reserve and the potential for her to serve Russian government interests as a useful idiot…” Trump also finds her useful.
Pam Bondi
“On Wednesday, the attorney general was hauled before lawmakers on Capitol Hill to face a grilling for her botched handling of the Epstein files. What followed was a farce…” wrote The Daily Beast. It was beyond farce. Pam Bondi was Tracy Flick having a psychotic episode.
Echoing her boss’s “never apologize” ethos, “Bondi refused to turn and apologize directly to victims of Jeffrey Epstein,” reported Time. When asked a second time, Bondi declared she was “not going to get in the gutter” – failing to realize she was looking up from one.
“She didn’t merely ooze contempt,” wrote Frank Bruni for The New York Times. “She gushed it, so that all she communicated during more than four hours of nasty exchanges was how loathsome she found her interrogators. Which was obviously her goal.” And Trump’s.
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem is arguably the most despicable of the Trump Women. While Leavitt brings “Baghdad Barbie” energy, Bondi channels Tracy Flick, and Gabbard flaunts her usefulness, Noem stands at the top of the podium. None can match her flamboyant audacity.
How do we loathe her? Let us count the ways. Was it the time she killed a family dog and a goat? Or when she posed in front of shirtless male prisoners in a notorious Salvadoran gulag? How about the recent “blanket” incident? “There is a hilarious tale about Kristi Noem and her blankie,” wrote Jacob Weindling in Jezebel, who then quoted from the Wall Street Journal report: “In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident.” Corey Lewandowski, Noem’s “senior adviser,” was so angry about the mislaid blanket he fired the pilot – then reinstated him when nobody else was available to fly them home. But Noem checks all the boxes.
Pete Hegseth
The Secretary of Defense is an honorary Trump woman because he also satisfies Trump’s criteria. Image is everything to the former Fox News co-host, who installed a makeup studio in the Pentagon, but his attempts at manliness suggest the kind of faux masculinity one would expect from a female actor caricaturing a man.
Last November, at Fox Nation’s 2025 Patriot Awards, Hegseth provoked audience groans with a questionable joke about his security violation. “Too soon? C’mon,” said Hegseth, who abruptly pivoted to his happy place: abject sycophancy. Trump, he gushed, is “the best possible and amazing commander in chief.” Hegseth boasted of bringing a “warrior culture” to the Pentagon while, as PBS reports, “essentially discarding the rules that govern how soldiers conduct themselves when lives are on the line.” Attractive: check. Compliant: check. Evil: check.
Trump’s elevated regard for the “Y” chromosome is apparent, given his verbal abuse of women and his fantasizing about Arnold Palmer’s, uh, putter. But he makes an exception for attractive, compliant, and evil hyper-feminized women – including Pete.
He cherishes them.