This morning Trump tweeted that “I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”

This is an almost indecipherably incompetent piece of writing. However, we can certainly glean that Mika Brzezinski was gushing blood out of her pores.

None of this is true, of course. Here’s a picture Brian Stelter tweeted of Mika on the weekend in question, where she looks lovely and is notably blood free at Mar-A-Lago:

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For the record, this is a picture of @MorningMika at Mar-a-Lago at the time Trump is claiming she was "bleeding badly." pic.twitter.com/NJgioOD3Va — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 29, 2017

But truth has become increasingly irrelevant to the Trump regime. Tomorrow we can look forward to some-manner-of-insane take from Kellyanne Conway about how Trump was in fact paying Mika a compliment by likening her to one of his favorite characters, Bloody Face.

This is, of course, not the first time Trump has been horrified by a supposedly bleeding woman. Who can forget the time that Trump declared that “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” after Megyn Kelly asked him a question about whether or not his comments about women were sexist.

Women like Kelly and Brzezinski are women who likely do not bleed more than the average human. They are even so traditionally attractive that Trump can’t label them fat slobs.

This might make you wonder whether the 53 percent of White Women Who Voted for Him will turn on him. But they won’t. Because honestly, this is what he was promising them when he promised to “make America great again.”

Because Mika and Megyn do not speak well of him. That is something Trump and some of his supporters—who cannot separate the idea of “a woman who is critical of you” from “a horrible bitch”—cannot abide in women.

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...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

We know that hostility towards women was one of the strongest predictors of Trump support. For years, there have been groups of people getting angry that women seem allowed to be mouthier and mouthier. They have been criticizing men, asking for more rights—hell, one of them wanted to be President.

Men in turn have been expected to be polite. They’re expected not to rape them or harass them at work or say whatever they want about boobs whenever they want to. They’re even expected to not interrupt them all the time.

And some people do not especially care for that. Or, as those people would say, they feel they are being muzzled by political correctness.

When Trump declares that women like Kelly and Brzezinski are oozing bodily fluids he tells the world that critical women are not simply shrill or unlikeable. They are downright grotesque. They are repulsive, blood gushing monsters, the likes of which are typically only seen in horror films.

"Trump is telling his base that when women are critical of him they are downright unnatural."

He is telling his base that when women are critical of him they are downright unnatural.

The good kind of women—women who are not great big blood monsters—are women like Melania and Ivanka who, if they disagree with him at all, do so only in the gentlest, most private manner while still talking about how much they love Trump. They are always smiling—at least when he’s watching—and “dressed like women” in that way Trump prefers.

The 1950’s style “Great America” Trump promised his voters was one where women were smiling, beautiful—and silent. It’s not just men that reminisce about that period. It’s some women, too, who mistakenly think that the wives were silent because they were all having coffee while their husbands cheerfully provided for their needs. They perhaps do not realize that was also a time when beating an “aggressive, efficient, masculine” wife was considered “temporary therapy”.

Women being able to speak their minds without feeling threatened is a relatively new phenomenon.

And Trump wants to make sure women don’t get too comfortable.

Because after all, in Trump’s mind—and doubtless the mind of many of his supporters—he’s not the president of the United States needlessly defaming a journalist doing her job. He’s just a real old fashioned guy trying to expose a new kind of monster.

Jennifer Wright Jennifer Wright is BAZAAR.com's Political Editor at Large.

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