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Donald Trump, as a creator of insults, is not a poet. But he is prolific\u2014no critic can doubt his commitment to his craft\u2014and his body of work, whatever it may lack in artistry, is notable for its volume alone. Every time the president calls someone a \u201cdog\u201d or a \u201cpig\u201d or a \u201chorseface,\u201d he solidifies his status as the GOAT. As a result, whether the insults are personalized attacks (\u201cSleepy Joe,\u201d \u201cShifty Schiff,\u201d \u201cPocahontas\u201d) or general ones (\u201ccrazy,\u201d \u201cnasty,\u201d \u201cdumb as a rock\u201d), they form, together, a data set: a collection of text that can be categorized, analyzed, and mined for insights\u2014not into the person being targeted but into the man who does the aiming.<\/p>\n

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This week, a video went viral: a clip from an interview with the president conducted by the Meet the Press<\/em> moderator Kristen Welker. The clip owes some of its popularity to its oddness. The sit-down, filmed in Wisconsin, was set in a barn, with a John Deere tractor in the background and the sound of rain thundering on the roof. But the video has spread, as well, because the abasements that it broadcasts are at once so familiar and, in their way, so newly revealing of the man. They also reaffirm a specific trend. If the president\u2019s put-downs have themes, many can be found in one particular line of the corpus: Insults \u2192 Insults Directed at Journalists \u2192 Insults Directed at Women Journalists \u2192 Insults Directed at Women Journalists of Color.<\/em><\/p>\n

The interview began as typical Sunday-show fare. The journalist and the president discussed current political events, including the economy and the war in Iran. The conversation then turned to the recent California primary, and the president steered the discussion to another of his reliable themes: supposed election malfeasance. The state\u2019s votes have been counted fraudulently, he said\u2014just as the votes were, he added, in the 2020 presidential election. Welker responded to the assertions (the latter of which has been so thoroughly debunked that it is commonly referred to as the Big Lie) exactly as Meet the Press<\/em>\u2019s moderator should have: journalistically. Why was he claiming fraud in California\u2019s election? What was his evidence?<\/p>\n

Welker\u2019s follow-ups were both polite and squarely within the bounds of a presidential interview. (\u201cDo you have the evidence to support that?\u201d is not, by any stretch, a \u201cgotcha\u201d question.) It didn\u2019t matter. The questions ended the interview. More precisely, the questions sent Trump into a fit of pique. \u201cI\u2019ve had enough,\u201d he said, before storming away.<\/p>\n

His melodramatic exit transformed the segment from standard Sunday programming into a piece of gossip and a matter of breaking news. The departure was not, in itself, the novelty. The truly compelling development was the video\u2019s capture of something that Americans don\u2019t always get to see: an immediate, up-close study of their president\u2019s rage.<\/p>\n

Welker\u2019s question, and Trump\u2019s wrath at her asking it, led the showman in chief to break character as the cameras rolled. This was the crux of the drama: the tense exchange that took place before<\/em> the climactic scene. For years, Americans have been reading reports of the president\u2019s temper\u2014fits of fury that erupt suddenly and escalate rapidly. On Sunday, they saw it firsthand. They saw how Welker\u2019s basic question provoked him, and the ease with which his annoyance sent him into an insult spiral. Trump, triggered, called Welker and NBC \u201ccrooked.\u201d He informed her that their conversation was over. Perhaps even more striking, though, was what he did next: He thanked Welker. He called her \u201cdarling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This was something of an innovation. Trump\u2019s denigrations of women journalists, if you parse the data, tend to adhere to seven fixed categories. The president, typically, will insult:<\/p>\n

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  1. Her looks (\u201cpiggy,\u201d \u201cugly\u201d)<\/li>\n
  2. Her intelligence (\u201cstupid,\u201d \u201cdumb\u201d)<\/li>\n
  3. Her professional capability (\u201cterrible reporter,\u201d \u201cdoesn\u2019t know what the hell she\u2019s doing\u201d)<\/li>\n
  4. Her personality (\u201cobnoxious,\u201d \u201cnasty,\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen you smile\u201d)<\/li>\n
  5. Her character (\u201ccrooked,\u201d \u201cYou are so bad\u201d)<\/li>\n
  6. Her body (\u201cblood coming out of her wherever\u201d)<\/li>\n
  7. Her sanity (\u201ccrazy\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    Trump\u2019s insults to Welker were, in this sense, something of a plot twist. \u201cDarling\u201d was incoherent, given the context: an epithet that seemed plucked from the wrong playbook, as if some prankster had slipped a guide to modern chivalry inside the president\u2019s well-worn copy of Demeaning Women for Dummies<\/em>. It came from a president who has been systematically removing women advisers from his administration. It came from a man who has been accused by more than 25 women of sexual assault (he has denied the claims), and who has been held legally liable to one of his accusers.<\/p>\n

    The outburst that Welker provoked\u2014and that she kept provoking, simply by staying calm and refusing to be flustered\u2014was blunt and loud and insistent. This is what the video captured: The president, lobbing insults at a woman who was not offended by them, losing his temper in a manner that is practically literal. You watch him lose control in something like real time. His tempo quickens. His volume escalates. His rage overcomes him\u2014and grows, it seems, as he realizes how little effect it has on his interlocutor. (\u201cInsubordinate\u201d is another insult the president has aimed at women reporters.)<\/p>\n

    And then: The anger seems to dissipate, as quickly as it came. Trump thanks Welker for her time. He slows his cadence. He quiets his volume. He calls her \u201cdarling.\u201d The epithet is not a concession (the database of Trumpian apologies has yet to receive any inputs). It reads, instead, as an attempt to restore order, to regain control. Darling<\/em> is patient. It is kind. It is also a feint. It is rage in the guise of gallantry. It is one more insult; it offers one more insight.<\/p>\n

    A request for evidence is not an affront. Facts are not offensive. An interview is not a power struggle\u2014unless you make it one. But Trump, having failed to ruffle Welker, somehow had to put her in her place. Thus he reached into his prodigious catalog of belittlement. Look what you made me do<\/em>, darling<\/em>, he said to the journalist who was doing her job.<\/p>\n

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