Donald Trump's cabinet members, including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Lindsay Graham, and others, have been identified as having daddy issues. The author suggests that the gifts of footwear given to these members are a loyalty test and humiliation ritual, a way of signaling who belongs to Trump. The article also notes that the president has always been obsessed with larger men, more powerful men, and more beloved men. This obsession has been exacerbated by the father wound of his younger brother, Fred Trump, who also saw men as winners or losers. Despite this, the author acknowledges that bullying was normalized, even though he saw it as a personal issue.