TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER/WOMEN: “When President Trump took to Twitter to complain about two women with connections to the Russia investigation, he affixed special descriptions to both. ‘Beautiful,’ he said of Nellie Ohr, the wife of a Justice Department official who worked for Fusion GPS, the research firm that commissioned a dossier that made salacious claims about Mr. Trump…In a separate tweet, Mr. Trump used the word ‘lovely’ to describe Lisa Page, the former F.B.I. lawyer who worked on both the Clinton email and Russia investigations and whose text exchanges with another bureau official, Peter Strzok, included repeated criticism of Mr. Trump during his candidacy…The descriptors Mr. Trump used for the two women reflected his intense interest in physical appearances and his clear disdain for both. Ms. Page has been featured repeatedly in Mr. Trump’s tweets, which he has used to highlight her extramarital affair with Mr. Strzok. Ms. Ohr is a new addition to Mr. Trump’s insult repertoire. The president — who misspelled Ms. Ohr’s name — briefly mentioned her on Twitter, but he considers her to be part of the larger narrative that he and his allies have pushed of a Russia inquiry that was broken from the start. White House officials did not respond to an email seeking comment on why Mr. Trump called Ms. Page ‘lovely’ or why he described Ms. Ohr as the ‘beautiful wife’ of Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official who had worked with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the dossier.”
–Maggie Haberman, “‘Beautiful’ and ‘Lovely’: Trump Tweets Reflect Fixation on Women’s Appearances,” The New York Times online, August 12, 2018