Hawley slams Andrew Tate for ‘locker room talk’ – but doesn’t mention Trump

Republican senator derides influencer in new book, saying: ‘Every man who has been in a locker room recognises the type’

In his new book, the Missouri Republican senator Josh Hawley derides Andrew Tate, a social media influencer and self-proclaimed “king of toxic masculinity”, for “sleeping with as many women as possible, berating them, abusing them and celebrating it all as manly, as ‘freedom’”.

Criticising Tate for “fake bravado” and “endless boasting”, Hawley adds: “Every man who has been in a locker room recognises the type … those aren’t the words of a man; those are the words of a child pretending to be a man.”