{"id":4612,"date":"2026-01-23T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:30:25","slug":"this-is-what-maga-manhood-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/this-is-what-maga-manhood-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What MAGA Manhood Looks Like\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, there\u2019s the bully coming for your friend\u2019s lunch money.&nbsp;<em>Hand it over, loser!<\/em>&nbsp;That is Trump\u2019s message in demanding $50 billion per year in oil from Venezuela. MAGA men, after all, don\u2019t ask for permission and don\u2019t think they have to pay. That\u2019s for beta men. Extortion and bullying are central to the MAGA manhood playbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/wishing-for-the-worst-young-men-online-gambling-and-the-end-of-the-world\/\">Polymarket<\/a>&nbsp;bettor who made $400k on the Maduro capture \u2013 monetizing and gamifying an act of unlawful intrusion into a sovereign nation that resulted in at least 80 and perhaps 100 dead. Here\u2019s another aspect of MAGA manhood: making a profit on, well, anything, possibly in this case from insider information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a few days later, an ICE agent murders a woman who is fleeing a protest and declare it an act of \u2018domestic terrorism\u2019 \u2013 and all the officials around the officer who killed her move to justify the death. The agonizing video of this senseless killing unfolds with an ICE officer treating the woman like a target in a video game or like he\u2019s seen too many John Wick movies. Early statements from the Administration are excruciatingly predictable: don\u2019t apologize. Don\u2019t take responsibility for your actions. MAGA men can do no wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, there is the classic bully script: choose a scapegoat and keep beating them down. For Trump, it\u2019s Somali immigrants whom he accused in a New York Times interview, of hating America. Somalis are one of the most economically vulnerable and relatively small immigrant communities in the US that have faced challenges in the decades-long armed conflict in their former home country, and Trump seems to delight in haranguing them. Yet another tactic straight from the MAGA manhood playbook: pick on the vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, there is the absurdity of the new dietary recommendations from RFK\u2019s HHS: meat, meat and more meat. Real men, after all, eat beef. All other foods are for losers, beta man stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know this is not the model of manhood the US needs. It is not the model of manhood that most of the US believes in. But it wins votes among some young men, many of whom have felt unseen, unrepresented and uncared for by previous Administrations. What we desperately need is to listen to, speak to and respond to the economic and social precarity that many young men in the US are facing and show them that Trump\u2019s version of performative masculinity and MAGA manhood is self-serving \u2013 and will not put money in their pockets or improve their lives or those of their loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to brave enough to call out the harm, as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey did. Bullies and thugs will continue to prevail if we don\u2019t. Silence enables the worst of MAGA manhood. And young men are watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Equimundo work&nbsp;to promote gender equality and create a world free from violence&nbsp;by engaging men and boys. To learn more about their work visit:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/\">www.equimundo.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Young Men Are Watching<br \/>\nby Gary Barker, Founder &#038; CEO, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MAGA-IMAGE.jpeg",916,1156,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rebecca Ladbury","author_link":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/author\/rebecca\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":183,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":183,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}