Oct. 26, 2024 "Trump refers to CNN's Anderson Cooper by a woman's first name": Today I found this article on the Associated Press and Yahoo:
NOVI, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper with a woman's first name in recent days as the Republican presidential nominee focuses his closing message on a hypermasculine appeal to men.
On a Friday morning post on Trump’s social media site Truth Social, the former president referred to one of the most prominent openly gay journalists in the U.S. as "Allison Cooper.”
Trump made the subtext even more explicit later Friday during a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, where he criticized a town hall Cooper hosted with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“If you watched her being interviewed by Allison Cooper the other night, he’s a nice person. You know Allison Cooper? CNN fake news,” Trump said, before pausing and saying in a mocking voice: “Oh, she said no, his name is Anderson. Oh, no."
On Saturday, Trump repeated the name during another Michigan rally, then followed it up during a nighttime reference in Pennsylvania. “They had a town hall,” Trump said in Michigan. “Even Allison Cooper was embarrassed by it. He was embarrassed by it.”
In referring to Cooper with a woman’s name, Trump appeared to turn to a stereotype heterosexual people have long deployed against gay men.
Such rhetoric evokes the trope of gay men as effeminate and comes as Trump aims to drive up his appeal among men in the final stages of his bid to return to the White House.
The former president on Friday recorded a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan, a former mixed martial arts commentator whose podcast is wildly popular among young men. On Oct. 19, Trump kicked off a Pennsylvania rally discussing legendary golfer Arnold Palmer’s genitalia.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. A representative for Cooper declined to comment.
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/trump-refers-cnns-anderson-cooper-203011584.html
The Republican candidate’s proposed policies and “likely debasement of democratic and market institutions would be ruinous to the US and global economies,” Derek Holt, Bank of Nova Scotia’s head of capital markets economics, said in a note to investors.
“The US economy doesn’t need pump-priming, it’s in excess demand and will remain there next year,
and Trump’s plans risk being highly destabilizing to world markets in a much more fractured world,” Holt wrote.
“The US needs to assert control over its borders, but Trump’s extreme immigration policies would severely damage the US economy.”
Holt added: “America’s fiscal position is living on borrowed time and the more damage that’s done now, the higher taxes will go in future in a potentially more divided and more dangerous world.”
An analysis by Bloomberg Economics last month estimated that
US debt may rise to 116% of gross domestic product under Trump’s tax-cut plan,
from 99% currently.
Under Harris’s platform, it would be on a path to 109%.
It’s unusual for a Canadian bank economist to write about US politics using such stark language.
Canada ships about three-quarters of its exports to its southern neighbor,
and is also a huge importer of goods and services from the US.
In fact, Canada is the largest export destination for 34 US states, according to calculations by economist Trevor Tombe using US government data. As such, it has plenty at stake in the direction of US trade and foreign policy.
Holt said his note isn’t an endorsement of Kamala Harris, who was one of the few US senators to vote against the revised US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement in 2020.
Democrats have made major errors during the Biden administration, including on immigration, the Scotiabank economist said.
“It’s a matter of picking the one you think will be less damaging,” Hold said.
“As a professional economist, I have no doubt that this means voting against Donald Trump and the weak self-serving men behind him.”
Trump’s “clear preference toward allowing Russia to have its way with Ukraine,
and China with Taiwan,”
would be the biggest foreign policy mistakes since the appeasement of Germany in the late 1930s, Holt wrote.
“There are those in my industry who I know will scoff at this,” the economist said. “They will put self-interest above the nation’s and the world’s interests.”
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