The worst people in the world are feeling the wind at their backs at this moment in history, and sometimes, when they are relaxed and cocky, they accidentally show you exactly who they are.

To wit: a tweet from conservative commentator and attempted filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, comparing the masculinity of President Donald Trump to that of Canadian Prime Minister and delicious, healthy between-meal snack Justin Trudeau.

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Masculinity in the twenty first century: which one is YOU? pic.twitter.com/idpZgGlqPf — Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 21, 2019

Here, D’Souza challenges us to study a photograph and then take an unsparing look into our own souls and ask ourselves which kind of man we really are.

Are we the world leader who:

The big manly man speaks. Shutterstock

Or are we the one who crosses his ankles?

Gentlemen, I am not kidding when I tell you we are supposed to feel less masculine if we chose the second.

Now listen: does Justin Trudeau look a bit like Tom Thumb here, perched on a walnut shell, refreshed after drinking a morning dewdrop? Absolutely. He also seems to know and be comfortable with it, while the guy he’s sitting across from thinks he’s draping himself in enough Men’s Wearhouse Super 100's fabric that we haven’t noticed he’s overweight. Trudeau is a proud fancy lad, while Trump wears ties down to his knees because he thinks he’s creating an optical illusion.

This little exercise is nothing more than a slightly-elevated version of that thing you see on Twitter from time to time, where some guy reposts some young boy’s make-up tutorial and asks:

I mean, I think the kid in this video has got life pretty well figured out, so the only thing I might do if I were @k_madrino is ask myself why I am so starved for validation from strangers on Twitter. If I were the sitting President of the United States, I might ask the same.

Misogyny and homophobia are the subtext of 85 percent of what’s wrong with the world, and in the other 15 percent, like here, it’s just the text. Insecure men are so terrified of appearing feminine that they don’t even notice when they’re being childish. They define their masculinity negatively, against some bizarre 1950s notion of what women do, to the point where a person who gets paid for his opinions actually suggests Justin Trudeau is less of a man because he’s not putting his big fat ass all over one hundred percent of the chair.

Also, I guess it bears pointing out that D’Souza pleaded guilty to felony campaign finance law violations in 2014 and Donald Trump pardoned him last year.

He does make a good point though: It is indeed the 21st century now, and being a man is not about not being a woman anymore. It’s about not being a child.

We’re Trudeau, Dinesh. Thanks for asking.

Dave Holmes Editor-at-Large Dave Holmes is Esquire's L.A.-based editor-at-large.

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