anderson cooper made a supercut of trump talking about men's bodies and called him the assman-in-chief on cnn. i need to lie down.

Photo: Anderson Cooper. Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

via the Daily Beast, HuffPost and AlterNet

The segment opened on Kramer. Specifically the Seinfeld episode where the DMV hands him a license plate reading ASSMAN, which Anderson Cooper used on Wednesday night to announce that Kramer was "no longer New York's most famous" one, the Daily Beast reports. The title had passed, he said, to an "erstwhile Manhattanite and derriere aficionado."

He meant the president. Cooper closed Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360 by crowning Donald Trump the "assman-in-chief," per HuffPost, and then, like any gay man with a grievance and a producer, he brought receipts.

what trump said about jon husted

The occasion was a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Tuesday, where Trump got back onto his favorite campaign subject, the physique of Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before; it's not my thing," Trump said, according to the Daily Beast, which also printed what came next: he said he had looked at Husted's backside. Aaron Rupar posted the clip that night.

The Daily Beast counts Husted's body in four of Trump's rallies this month alone. We have written about the Youngstown one and about Jesse Watters noticing, which at this point is less a news beat than a weekly column.

the supercut

Trump has suggested his fixation on the "senatorial caboose" is a one-off, Cooper said, per the Daily Beast and AlterNet. So CNN rolled the tape: Trump on Georgia's Mike Collins, on Tim Sheehy, on Harrison Butker, on quarterback Jaxson Dart, and on Arnold Palmer in the showers, a 2024 classic. Cooper said Trump wanted MAGA voters to know Husted is "an unmitigated smoke show," and wondered if the senator might be "giving back his key to the locker room at Trump Doral."

Then the closer, which both outlets printed in full: "There's nothing at all unusual, and certainly nothing gay, about a president who dances daily to 'YMCA,' and who publicly pined for a reprise of Betty Buckley in 'Cats.'"

For the record, we agree. A man who brings up another man's glutes at four rallies in one month, dances to the Village People at the end of his rallies and has opinions about the Cats revival is simply a straight man with hobbies. CNN's own account posted the clip after the show, in case anyone at the network was hoping it would go away.