<p><img src="https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5ffcc491bde805001980c447-1280/GettyImages-1149540623.jpg" border="0" alt="President Donald Trump speaks with Hogan Gidley (R), White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary, during a meeting on the opioid epidemic in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, June 12, 2019." data-mce-source="SAUL LOEB/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="President Donald Trump speaks with Hogan Gidley (R), White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary, during a meeting on the opioid epidemic in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, June 12, 2019."></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>Former White House spokesman Hogan Gidley claimed during a Monday interview on Fox News that President Donald Trump is "the most masculine person to ever hold the White House."</p><p>This came after Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked Gidley if Trump felt "emasculated" by the recent "social media crackdown."</p><p>"I wouldn't say emasculated," said Gidley, who said he spoke with the president over the weekend. "The most masculine person, I think, to ever hold the White House is the president of the United States."</p><p>The Fox host was referring to Twitter's decision to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-suspended-president-donald-trumps-account-permanently-2021-1">permanently ban Trump from its platform</a> and Facebook's decision to indefinitely <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-has-blocked-president-trump-indefinitely-2021-1">suspend his account</a>, among other new limits set by various platforms. Hemmer didn't explain how Trump's masculinity had anything to do with his newly restricted presence online.</p><p><strong data-stringify-type="bold"><em data-stringify-type="italic">Read more:</em></strong><em data-stringify-type="italic"></em><em data-stringify-type="italic"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-trump-eviction-inauguration-secret-service-white-house-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-trump-eviction-inauguration-secret-service-white-house-2020-11" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="40" data-uri="d634b2fd2884ec82138f283d94ea9590">Secret Service experts are speculating in group chats about how Trump might be hauled out of the White House if he won't budge on Inauguration Day</a></em></p><p>Trump has long trafficked in machismo and attracts much <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-so-many-men-stuck-with-trump-in-2020/">more widespread support among men</a> than among women. During his 2016 presidential campaign, he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/index.html">boasted</a> about the size of his hands and penis and dismissed his own claims that he committed sexual assault as "locker room talk."</p><p>As president, Trump repeatedly called suburban women voters <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-election-2020-suburban-women-support-b1055522.html">"housewives"</a> and told his female supporters that he's "getting your husbands back to work" amid the pandemic.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation=""><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fox News Anchor Bill Hemmer asks Trump National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley if the president feels emasculated from "the social media crackdown." <a href="https://t.co/lIirtRXWhN">pic.twitter.com/lIirtRXWhN</a></p> The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1348729558644744201'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2021</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation=""><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Their definition of unity is 'you agree with us in totality or you have no place in this country.'" -<a href="https://twitter.com/JHoganGidley'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JHoganGidley</a> comments on big tech censorship of President Trump and the second push to impeach <a href="https://twitter.com/BillHemmer'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billhemmer</a> <a href="https://t.co/v9K2aVCqwk">pic.twitter.com/v9K2aVCqwk</a></p> Hemmer Reports (@HemmerReports) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1348727142989881346'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2021</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/house-democrats-article-of-impeachment-trump-incitement-of-insurrection-2021-1" >House Democrats introduce an article of impeachment charging Trump with incitement of insurrection</a></strong></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-aide-says-president-is-the-most-masculine-in-us-history-2021-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story »</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-myths-debunked-wuhan-china-2020-2">Epidemiologists debunk 13 coronavirus myths</a></p>
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