President Donald Trump's question for a teenager at the White House this week has revealed a MAGA divide, according to a report from The Bulwark on Thursday.
Trump was meeting with a group of students and athletes in the Oval Office to celebrate Trump's signing of a proclamation to restore the Presidential Fitness Test award when he quipped "you think you could take me in a fight?" YouGov analysts then decided to turn the question into a poll with the following question: Who do you think would win in a physical fight between you and Donald Trump?
The "presidential fight club" question has split Republicans. However, Democrats have appeared to have a more firm response.
"The results were amusing," The Bulwark reported. "Fully 75 percent of Democratic respondents thought they could take the president, compared to only 5 percent who thought he’d hand them their a----. Republicans, however, seemed more torn by the question: A third said they thought they’d be victorious, while 39 percent said the president would come out on top."
"It’s fun to imagine the struggle of the MAGA mind faced with this question, which sets two load-bearing pillars of the ideology against one another—who’s a bigger alpha-male he-man, me or the president? For our part, though, we think the median Republican is selling himself short on this one," according to The Bulwark. "It’s probably for the best that the fighting days of our near-octagenarian president who claims his hands are perennially bruised from shaking too many hands are behind him."