The Drudge Report enjoys whacking away at President Donald Trump’s foibles like a digital piñata, and Wednesday was no exception — in full Technicolor.

Last week at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump sparked a slew of headlines when he waxed poetic about the pleasing aesthetics of Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH), telling the gathered MAGA faithful that he had recently learned the senator had been a star football player in college. This made Trump want to take a closer look at the former athlete Husted’s body, he explained.

“I looked, and I watched up and down,” said Trump. “I looked at his ass, and I looked at the whole – and then I looked at his hands. Look at his hands. He’s got these, like, claws.”

It was Trump’s defense of those comments about Husted that sparked the latest mockery from Drudge, delivered when the president was at a campaign rally Tuesday in Greenville, North Carolina to support the flailing Republican Senate nominee, Michael Whatley. Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has maintained strong, double-digit leads over Whatley for months; the Fox News Power Rankings have declared the race all but over, moving it from Lean D to Likely D earlier this month.

As Trump addressed the audience, he claimed Husted had gotten a big bump in the polls because of his speech, claiming the senator had gone from “losing by a lot” to “leading by two.” (There was a Rasmussen poll that was taken from Oct. 12 to Oct. 14 that had Husted up 2 points, but that was not conducted just during the timeframe of the rally and the poll appears to be an outlier among other recent polls of the Ohio Senate race.)

Trump then brought up how he had checked out Husted:

So, he’s over here. I’m over here, and I’m studying his body. I’ve never studied the body of a man before. It’s not my thing. Nothing wrong with it — of course. [laughs] I always precede it by saying, “Nothing wrong,” but it’s never been my thing, to be honest with you.

But I looked at his ass, and then I looked at his legs. I said, “His ass, sh*t, it’s like, it’s like a pile of muscle.” Then I looked at his legs, and I said, “Man, his feet are big.” Then I looked at his shoulders, and I tapped him on the shoulder, and it actually hurt my hand. He’s like a piece of steel. I said, “This guy’s a monster!”

The Drudge Report gathered several headlines about Trump’s comments from the North Carolina rally to feature in the main center stage of the homepage, as shown in the screenshot below.

The text of the selected links was in a rainbow of colors, suggesting the Pride flag, and the links went to the following articles:

Donald Trump accused of ‘thirsting after buttocks’ as he fawns over Senator Jon Husted’s body again (Irish Star)

Trump Explains Sizing Up ‘Ass’ of Republican Senator: ‘I’m Studying His Body’ (Mediaite)

All the President’s Hotties: Donald Trump is 100 percent behind Jon Husted’s behind. (The Atlantic)

The last link in that main section, the one in black text, went to Nate Silver’s assessment of Trump’s approval ratings as the lowest of any president at this point in the midterm election cycle in 80 years.

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