You think your Monday mornings are bad? I just spent mine examining photos of Donald Trump’s crotch.
The former US president gave a moderately anticipated speech over the weekend, addressing the North Carolina Republican Party’s state convention.
The substance of this speech is worth discussing, but before we get to it, we need to deal with the style, which is all anyone has been talking about.
I am of course referring to Mr Trump’s pants.
Footage of the trousers went viral, as the dancing TikTok youths say, with a bunch of people online wondering whether Mr Trump had them on backwards.
At first glance, you can understand the confusion.
Let us acknowledge that the pants look weird. The wrinkles on Mr Trump’s thighs are particularly incomprehensible, and in the footage above, there appears to be no fly. But are the pants on backwards? This is the question we must fact check.
I delved into the evidence, and the answer is no. Photos from the event clearly show a fly on the front of…