Trump's steak preference has men wondering the right way to order meat
Is President Trump ordering his steaks wrong? We were reminded this week that president Donald Trump likes his steaks cooked well-done and smothered in ketchup.
On its own, this piece of information matters little—who cares why one man wants to turn lovely $54 cuts into dried-out, rubbery hunks of protein?
But as with most minor Trump-related quirks that become internet take-bait, the reactions to Trump's steak preference say a lot more than the preference itself—especially about the bizarre way meat, its varying degrees of bloodiness, and masculinity are mixed up in America.
Plenty of outlets have condemned Trump's choice in meat preparation in the year since that personal detail first came out. The Huffington Post called it "the worst possible way" to eat a steak last March; earlier this week, Jezebel claimed the practice made the president seem "like a damn child." Preemptively heading off readers who might dismiss a steak hot take as distracting from politics and policies that matter, Eater contended that "Actually, How Donald Trump Eats His Steak Matters," then spent nearly 1,800 words explaining what consumption of certain kinds of meat can reveal about a person's ability to trust others and take advice.
In response, some alt-right America-first #MAGA people have done what they do best: react to something silly with knee-jerk extremism and brain-contorting insults.
"Only men with testosterone deficiencies order their steak anything less than burnt to a crisp," tweeted an InfoWars editor, writing that progressives need a "trigger warning" for the "traumatizing" content of a photo of Trump nomming on a golden fork. Someone on the r/The_Donald subreddit joked (?) that "satanists and pedophiles like their meat raw," so it "makes sense that Trump would like his well done."
This sudden love among right-wingers for brown, shriveled discs of flesh was the subject of a nice comic from Matt Bors at the Nib. "Flavor is for cucks. I burn my steaks now," says the strip's Trump fanatic, who cuts his meat with a chainsaw. "We are owning libs so hard with our steak eating. Hashtag #welldone."
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