Just hours after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched high-profile attacks against one another on foreign policy, the standoff continued into the night in back-to-back interviews on CNN’s The Final Five candidates’ forum. The event featured interviews from all the remaining candidates in the 2016 election, but interviews with John Kasich and even Ted Cruz seemed like mere accents – distractions, even – in a larger, highly gendered standoff between Clinton and Trump that could foreshadow a general election in which the politics of sex and sexism is at the fore.
One thing Monday night made clear is if Trump and Clinton do indeed win their parties’ respective nominations, it’s going to be a long, bumpy, gender-politics ridden ride.
So much of what Trump says can be read as sexual innuendo. After Clinton suggested during a speech to Aipac on Monday that America needs “steady hands, not a President who says he’s neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who-knows-what on Wednesday,” Trump took her criticism straight to a physical place.
“I have the steadiest hands. Look at those hands,” he said, raising a fist up to show the moderator.
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