Trump Does Anything He Wants -- and More, Maureen Dowd

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/opinion/trump-does-anything-he-wants-and-more.html

His approach in his second term can best be described as manhandling, abetted by his cabinet of lackeys and congressional Republican bootlickers. Mike Johnson pathetically conjured an “America First Award” for Trump out of thin air. The House speaker called the “beautiful golden statue” of an eagle appropriate to “the new golden era in America.”

Trump thinks more than ever that he can have his way with whatever he wants in whatever way he wants. Whether it’s a country, a skyline, the White House. He accosted the People’s House, bulldozing the East Wing and a Jackie Kennedy garden, before anyone could even look at the plans. He blows up suspected drug boats, snatched Nicolás Maduro out of his bedroom and salivates at the thought of pillaging Greenland and assailing Cuba


At a cabinet meeting on Thursday, an amused Trump mused: “I think I may go to Venezuela and run for president against Delcy,” referring to Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president who ascended with Trump’s approval.

On Monday, Trump said that if Iran did not submit to him, “we’ll just keep bombing our little hearts out.” He was steaming that NATO was not bending to his will, and he was vowing that it would rue the day. “This was a test for NATO,” he said during the cabinet meeting, adding: “If you don’t do that, we’re going to remember. Just remember. Remember this in a number of months from now. Remember my statements. They have an expression, a great expression, ‘Never forget.’ We can never forget.”

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Cadet Bone Spurs has developed a taste for flaunting our unparalleled military, and there’s no one at the Pentagon to curb this new appetite for global violence — certainly not the aggro Pete Hegseth.

[Keepthesoulalive]

1. Wasn't she one of the mean girls who kept trashing democrats

She is not an impartial journalist, she is one of the folks who helped get us to this unholy graveyard.

[Safe as Milk]

2. Dowd is partly right.

Diddling Donny is consumed by his own narcissism, with a measured delusional effort to reach the infallible. That which will not bend to his will is normally dismissed out of existence, but only for his sake. There is still conventional reality, but not on Diddling Donny’s planet. But Donny’s planet does not include his own mortality. On ours, it does. On Donny’s planet, he never has to answer for the pain he’s caused others, AND he never dies. But when he DOES die, nearly all of his victims will be left to deal with their own losses just for having crossed paths with this asshole.

[rampartd]

3. "the aggro pete hegseth."

aggro - informal british "aggressive"

[NNadir]

4. What!?! Maureen Dowd!?! I always thought her political opinions were limited to how Al Gore's suit fit.

She thinks she's a wit, but she's not. She's an awful human being working for a paper that sane washed the orange pedophile in the White House.

The political hack leading the Supreme Court, John Roberts, who working with other political hacks on the Court, the Magats, has declared the Constitution unconstitutional is on her.

[Shipwack]

7. Well, to be fair...

She thinks she's a wit, but she's not.

… she’s half right…

[Lemon Lyman]

5. -

Shut up you hack. Hillary Hawk or some such sh*t.

[SocialDemocrat61]

6. Dowd is a hack

Who’s been wrong more than she’s been right

[Irish_Dem]

8. Dowd helped the MAGAs come to power. Bashing Dems all the time.

[themaguffin]

9. She enabled this.

[Orrex]

10. Dowd, who worked so hard do get Dubya elected & reelected, can go fuck herself.

[hatrack]

11. Wow, how incredibly perceptive! I for one am left breathless by her amazing grasp of political reality . . .