I touched on it briefly Tuesday night, but probable GOP nominee Donald Trump's victory speech dismissal of near-certain Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton bears further attention for illustrating a serious personal and political flaw the egomaniacal former reality star bears.

Basking in the glow of his sweep through the Northeast primaries, Trump ran through his now-customary litany of sexist tropes. Clinton's weak? Check. ("She will not be a good president. She doesn't have the strength. She doesn't have the stamina.") She's not really qualified but is only succeeding because of reverse sexism? Check. ("Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote," he said, Trumpslaining what makes a qualified presidential candidate.) She's shrill? You better believe it. ("I haven't quite recovered – it's early in the morning – from her shouting that message," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier today – phoned in to nauseating sycophancy, natch – adding for good measure, "And I know a lot of people would say you can't say that about a woman, because of course a woman doesn't shout.")

This is, of course, nothing new for Trump, who has a long history of simmering sexism, from referring to women as arm-garniture to comparing them to dogs and other animals to suggesting that Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly was menstruating because she asked him a tough question to squirming with obvious discomfort at the idea that Clinton had to use the bathroom ("I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't want to talk about it").

As Greg Sargent notes in The Washington Post this morning, Trump seems to view this line of attack against Clinton as a sign of alpha-strength and dominance over her. "This is not strength," Sargent writes. "It's weakness. It's his weakness, in the sense that he plainly can't help but respond to her in this way. And more to the point, Trump doesn't appear to know it."

Indeed, as I noted last December, Trump has a bully's instinct for finding and zeroing in on an opponent's vulnerabilities, and it's served him well inasmuch as it's helped him casually dispatch so many opponents over the last several months; but combined with his sexism – and his lack of awareness that it's even a problem – it will be his undoing.

Trump sees women as ornaments whose role is to play complementary, subservient and decorative roles. ("Beauty and elegance, whether in a woman, a building, or a work of art is not just superficial or something pretty to see," he wrote in a book 10 years ago.) He sees the failure to do so – the failure to meet his standards of beauty, an unwillingness to play the role of fawning prop or the temerity to challenge him either with tough questions or on the ballot – as ipso facto a vulnerability to exploit. It may be a view that fits into whatever era America was "great" in his mind, but its retrograde sexism is toxic in 21st century America.

"The beautiful thing is women don't like her," Trump smugly announced in closing his victory speech Tuesday night, a reminder of either his chronic mendacity or utter lack of self-awareness. Polls show that women have a mixed view of Clinton: The most recent Battleground Poll, for example, has women viewing her favorably by a 51-47 margin while the Suffolk University/USA Today poll had her underwater 42-48.

Women's views of Trump, however, are much clearer: They loathe him. A couple of recent examples: The Battleground Poll found 26 percent of women view Trump favorably and 71 percent view him unfavorably; that's not just underwater, that's a Titanic-style disaster in the making. The Suffolk/USA Today poll had him at 24-66 among women. He was upside down with Republican women at a clip of 46-50 percent. Did I mention that women made up 53 percent of the electorate four years ago?

"We're going to do to very well, we're going to do very well with Hillary and with women as soon as we start our process against her," Trump breezily assured the hosts of "Morning Joe."

Meanwhile, one imagines a certain level of giddiness in Clinton campaign headquarters last night as Trump misplayed the "woman card."

Fighting for women's health care, equal pay, and paid leave.

Or as Donald Trump says, playing the "woman's card."https://t.co/Ask6loAOFO — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 27, 2016