How Hugh Hefner's world helped Donald Trump get into the White House

Trump socialised with Hefner, appeared on a front cover of Playboy magazine, and was the subject of interviews in its pages

Hugh Hefner, who has died at the age of 91, considered himself the luckiest man on the planet. And with his silk pyjamas, bunny girls and private jets, he managed to have quite an impact on the modern world.

As the founder of Playboy magazine, he revolutionised the imagery of heterosexuality in popular culture, changing people’s bedroom and courtship habits in the process. He may even have influenced the path of modern American politics.

Hefner launched Playboy in the early 1950s, when the norm of American popular culture was depicted by images of wholesome families in