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Trump finds electric cars effete and un-American and has suggested undoing the subsidies and environmental regulations that have incentivized companies to make them and people to buy them.

It’s in his cocky but effete delivery, the same vocal quality I heard when theater queens debated who was the superior Mame at West Village gay bars.

Studies have shown that Gen Z is having less sex than previous generations had in their early adulthood, a fact that has inspired a certain set of concerned pundits, who in previous decades might have gotten stressed out about teen pregnancy, to fret instead about the effete men and cold women of the younger generation.

His goal, pointedly, is to create a sui generis existence fit for the New World, symbolized by his unique variety of apple: “No pampered English import, no effete Continental still reeking of the paws of some French fruitier,” he proclaims.

“I’ll go after him for being ‘this effete knower of arcane knowledge, who knows little tidbits that no one would care about.’