Debate Suggests Men May Be Too Emotional To Be President

Trump was highly emotional on the debate stage. Female candidates rarely have that luxury.

After former President Donald Trump delivered a huffy, visibly emotional debate performance Tuesday night, many viewers hopped online to make the same joke: “Perhaps men are too emotional to be president.”

After decades of hearing that female candidates were too emotionally unstable ― hysterical even, especially around that time of month ― for the top job, the joke was too good to pass up, given how the night panned out: It was the woman on stage, Vice President Kamala Harris, who came across as cool, calm and collected (albeit characteristically prone to laughing).

Expertly baited by Harris ― one reference to Trump’s small crowd sizes was all it took to set him off ― a petulant Trump glared into the camera all night, his mouth bunched and his eyes squinted in a scowl.

Those same eyes never seemed to make direct contact with his Democratic rival for the presidency, who, by comparison, seized the split-screen format, smirking and shaking her head as Trump rambled about immigrants eating cats and his admiration of Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán.

Clearly thrown off his game, Trump refused to call Harris by her first name, one he often mispronounces, preferring “she.”