The network also never aired the remarks. Halfway through Trump’s ramble on Palmer, the network cut away from his remarks before he made his innuendo, according to CNN media analyst Brian Stelter. In its coverage since, it has made no mention of the remarks.

"We have fifteen days—there's still time for us to stop him," Mary Trump wrote in her "The Good In Us" newsletter.

But it also underscored larger dynamics at play this cycle, including Trump’s emphasis on hypermasculinity as he looks to hold his advantage with male voters, particularly younger men. So we pulled together five of our reporters to dissect the moment and discuss what it means for a race that pollsters are projecting will be marked by the largest gender gap in modern political history.

On Saturday, Trump kicked off his rally with a detailed, 12-minute story about Palmer that included an anecdote about what Palmer looked like in the showers.

Arnold Palmer ’s daughter once said her late father was “appalled” by Donald Trump ’s “lack of civility” and character years before the GOP nominee crudely remarked on the golf legend’s penis size at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a White House aide under former President Trump, said that there is “wisdom and strategy” behind Trump’s ribald remarks about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia at a rally on Saturday. “There is some wisdom and strategy to him just flooding the zone with crazy,