The GOP convention put on display the party’s version of masculinity that has shaped Trump’s time in the public eye, from his cultivated image as a playboy in New York to his campaigns for office.

“The idea of the president as the hypermasculine father protector figure has been with us since the start,” said Melissa Heldman, who has long studied masculinity in presidential politics. Trump’s brand of masculinity, she said, has been that of an aggressor and open bully more “than probably any previous president.”