that showed offher long legs ・ Some- where out Of the frame, two former wives Of the president-elect, lvana Trump and Marla Maples already had notions of ambassadorships buzzing in their brains like vibrators. These queens in the House Of Trump—all of them having served variouslyas model arm candy, real- ity-show stars, humiliate d sidekicks and shopping channel mavens—are vestal virgins in the temple ofacqul- sition. They are significant even for those wh0 don't worship there for what they reveal about the emo- tional life ofthe 45th president ofthe United States and his views on the role Of women. During the course of Donald Trump's adult li , a sp an Of 50 years, America became a bet- ter, more tOle rant nation, and the 、Ⅳ 01 第 en S movement was a big rea- son why. Trump, however, is a living link tO another era. His first prenup- tial agreement was penned by mob lawyer, Senator Joseph McCarthy acolyte and Richard Nixon ally Roy C0hn. (Former President Barack Obama was in junior high when COhn wrote it up. ) Norman Vincent Peale—evangelist Of mid-20th- century self-improvement—pre- sided over his first wedding. When Trump first married, mar- ital rape was still exempted from American laws. ()n fact, in a divorce deposition, his first wife would accuse him Of marital rape, but she backtracked later and claimed she meant that she felt emotionally viO- lated. ) There were still famiIies—Trump s own for example—where the elder generation found the word 2 g れ 4 offensive. Abortion had been legal for only three years. Women were either Mrs. or Miss and were still vastly outnumbered by men in graduate schools (they are now m the maJ0rity). About half as many women worked outside the home as dO tOday. NOW that women are more independent and working mothers have pushed men a little into the drudgery ofdomestic work, some men are confronting an exlstential crisis. AS much as any lost factory jOb or fading national whiteness, putting Dad back in charge is the great' part ofTrump s "again ・ The wheels of that change are already rolling: Congressional defund- ing 0f Planned Parenthood means fewer legal abortions and less afford- able contraception, the repeal of Obamacare ends the federal mandate that insurers cover contraceptives, and Trump s promise tO appoint anti- choice judges will soon kill Roe Ⅳ 4 . Many Americans could soon be where women were when Trump was born—1946—giving birth whether they want tO or not and, consequently, unable to pursue careers. The Trump Queens, 1n many ways as surreal as their king, exist beyond the dramatic changes in the lives of the average American woman over the past half-century. They will preside over the court Of an end-times Camelot on acid , wielding enormous power over StyliStS and foreign dignitaries exchange for surviving the ultimate re ality-show chal- lenge: impressing Donald Trump, his fellow oligarchs and captains 0f supra- national corporations with the ir 100kS and poise. They have paid for that power ln measures Of dignity. AS the new pres- ident once said, "lt doesn t matter what they write [about yo 司 as long as you have a young and beautiful piece 0fass.