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Compared to the Trump-Stern exchange—which suffers from the absence of a typeface to suggest heavy breathing—Alfie comes off reasonably well. After all, he pays some attention to female psychology, and he is interested in the girls for their own sake, not in order to make other men feel envious. Trump seems to have caught a venereal disease—not, as a wag has said, “from himself”—but from the late Roger Vadim, the ’60s film director whose principal innovation was casting his various wives and girlfriends (Brigitte Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, Jane Fonda) in parts where they had to take off their clothes. This made him greatly envied by adolescents of all ages, but then Vadim wasn’t running for office.

And maybe Trump isn’t running for office either. Or, since he lacks the envy-rousing resources available to a film director, maybe he is pretending to run for office so that he can draw more attention to the class of bird he is pulling these days. Miss Knauss has just appeared in British GQ magazine (and the Sun newspaper), photographed on the Trump jet but without her stewardess’s uniform. It’s not Playboy, but she’ll get Howard’s vote any time.

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John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.

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Compared to the Trump-Stern exchange—which suffers from the absence of a typeface to suggest heavy breathing—Alfie comes off reasonably well. After all, he pays some attention to female psychology, and he is interested in the girls for their own sake, not in order to make other men feel envious. Trump seems to have caught a venereal disease—not, as a wag has said, “from himself”—but from the late Roger Vadim, the ’60s film director whose principal innovation was casting his various wives and girlfriends (Brigitte Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, Jane Fonda) in parts where they had to take off their clothes. This made him greatly envied by adolescents of all ages, but then Vadim wasn’t running for office.

And maybe Trump isn’t running for office either. Or, since he lacks the envy-rousing resources available to a film director, maybe he is pretending to run for office so that he can draw more attention to the class of bird he is pulling these days. Miss Knauss has just appeared in British GQ magazine (and the Sun newspaper), photographed on the Trump jet but without her stewardess’s uniform. It’s not Playboy, but she’ll get Howard’s vote any time.

About the Author

John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.