Halloween is coming up and you might be tempted to dress up as Donald Trump, the unhinged Cheeto-colored joke currently running for our country’s highest office.
Please don’t. As writer Kevin Rose pointed out on Fusion recently, there are plenty of good reasons not to do it: Your Mexican-American friends probably aren’t going to find your “build the wall” funny and no one will be amused by a “grab ‘em by the pussy” T-shirt.
And if you’re single hetero dude looking for love, here’s another reason to forgo the “Mr. Billionaire wig” and suit: Women are just not into it.
In a survey of 500 U.S. singles over age 21, dating site PlentyOfFish asked men and women which pop culture costumes they were most likely to don this Halloween and which costumes they would find most attractive on the opposite sex.
Turns out, a surprising percentage of men are considering a Trump costume this year... and an unsurprising percentage of women are grossed out by the idea.
Here’s what men say they’d considering going as:
And here’s what costumes women say they’d likely find attractive:
Some key takeaways? Batman always beats the Joker and Donald Trump is never a good idea. (And Pikachu ― while not a high-ranking choice for men― is more appealing to women than you might guess. Go, Pikachu.)
PlentyOfFish also asked women who they would consider dressing up as for Halloween. Here’s what they said:
And here are the costumes men said they would be most attracted to at a Halloween party:
Some key takeaways here, besides the lack of Hillary costume love on both sides? Superhero and super villains (Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn) are hits across the board.
If you’re still stumped on what to dress up as for Halloween, peruse some fun, original costume ideas here.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar,rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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