Watching “The Borgias” on Netflix, I was reminded that there was a model of masculine behavior (you can guess what it is) that long predated the modest, stoic, self-sacrificing gentleman of the 19th and 20th centuries. In every sense but one, you can view Trump as a throwback to this earlier model.
The exception is that Trump constantly whines as well as swaggers. Would Cesare Borgia have run around Italy screaming about what a victim he was? I don’t think so.