He is that worst cliche of someone who can't confront criticism with meaning rebuttal. He lacks the intellect to brandish ideas so he's reduced to gross, ad hominem attacks.
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Trump is our national ID and the death of our national myth of American exceptionalism. How can we be exceptional with this pig in the White House? How can the greatest nation on earth, a shinning city on hill if you will, produce such a low life like Donald J Trump? We can blame it on the Russians, but we must look deeply into our souls, like looking into Oscar Wolfe's closet in A Portrait of DorIan Gray, to find the answer. I might add, we won't like what we find.
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Indeed he has his serious flaws, but he was and still is the pick of the election "litter."
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We are all getting played. Even you, Maureen. Please follow the money not th Tweets. The answer to Trump's vast insecurity and self dealing will be found in his tax returns and validated Russian kompromat. Trump is a sociopath with narcissistic features who feels no guilt nor accepts any blame. He is forced to Tweet because people make him lash out (the devil made me do it). He is simply a criminal who has avoided personal responsibility for the entirety of his life. Please work to uncover his tax evasion, money laundering and Russian mob debt. Come on, what are the chances of a smoking gun never being found? Trumps ego, avarice and hurt feelings compelled him to seek the Presidency without considering that he might actually win. Kinda like the story of The Producers. It's springtime for Trump in America indeed.
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What's interesting about Trump is he's not a throwback to something we haven't seen in many many years -- he's the first of his kind, and he threatens to change America for a long time to come.
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As is the case with most of Trump's bizarre standards for others, it's lose/lose. Had Mika not taken care of her appearance, assuming she wasn't fired for looking too old) our sorry excuse for a president would still have gone after her - probably attempting to humiliate her by tweeting that she should get a face lift before her eylids hit the ground!
What I want to know is this: who saw HIM after his cosmetic procedures (you can bet there've been some), and what would it take for them to "leak" those pictures?
What I want to know is this: who saw HIM after his cosmetic procedures (you can bet there've been some), and what would it take for them to "leak" those pictures?
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DJT is not the regular politician nor tge regular Republican, he does not tolerate insults. He also does not hold the media (any variety) in awe. This is a learning curve for both Mr. Trump and the media, but rest assured he will not be coweled, he doesn't care.
So now the decision has to be made by "journalists" continue to antagonize Trump or rise above it, I have the feeling the media will not do the right thing.
So now the decision has to be made by "journalists" continue to antagonize Trump or rise above it, I have the feeling the media will not do the right thing.
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President Trump's turrets like tweets make me wince...a lot! The guy is indelicate, profane, imprudent, vindictive, defensive, unrelenting, incisive, insightful, pugnacious and correct to not take any "boloney" from the media whoever they may be. Why should he? Moreover, who best to defend his presidency but the man himself. He alone is responsible for his fate and that of the administration. We should like it that way, because he is his own man, beholding to no one for his success.
This counter puncher is what the bulk of the nation yearned for. The center of the country, tired of politicians and the incessant whining about what they can't do because they are hamstrung and are afraid to offend this group or that special interest (read ethnic front group)group. Worrying about all those precious feelings was and will continue to inhibit the reclaiming of the government "of the people" so long as issues other than guns, gays and abortion are shunted aside by the PC crowd.
The Country needs a meat ax approach and a good cleaning. The unelected, that really run the country, need removed from the likes of the EPA, Dept of ED. Justice, State and the elected representatives need to assert the authority of the Congress once again over the bureaucracy. This intemperate man is the only person, not beholding to anyone, that can affect change.
Stop the hand wringing and heavy sighs. He's a "pig" Maureen and we love it.
This counter puncher is what the bulk of the nation yearned for. The center of the country, tired of politicians and the incessant whining about what they can't do because they are hamstrung and are afraid to offend this group or that special interest (read ethnic front group)group. Worrying about all those precious feelings was and will continue to inhibit the reclaiming of the government "of the people" so long as issues other than guns, gays and abortion are shunted aside by the PC crowd.
The Country needs a meat ax approach and a good cleaning. The unelected, that really run the country, need removed from the likes of the EPA, Dept of ED. Justice, State and the elected representatives need to assert the authority of the Congress once again over the bureaucracy. This intemperate man is the only person, not beholding to anyone, that can affect change.
Stop the hand wringing and heavy sighs. He's a "pig" Maureen and we love it.
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hether he is as "mean" to men as he is to women or not, he is mentally unwell and unfit for the office of president.
Congress, do your job. #25for45
Congress, do your job. #25for45
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Trump proves that money can’t buy taste or class.
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Should we ignore Trump's mental state, his dementia, his insecurities, as irrelevant to the conduct of "real" issues? Hardly. It is precisely because of his mental issues that he is being played for a chump by China and Russia and every other interested party. Far from making America great again, he is making America weak because of his own internal weaknesses. The only way out of this national nightmare is the 25th Amendment.
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What happens when he hits back 10 times as hard as he thinks he's been hit and someone crazier than he with nuclear power hits back 100 times harder?
The worst thing, though is that he is giving the entire country a bad name. That will cost all of us something at sometime. I thought the old image of the "Ugly American" had pretty much vanished in the West. Trump is singelhandedly reviving it. Plus, he's a liar, known to all.
The worst thing, though is that he is giving the entire country a bad name. That will cost all of us something at sometime. I thought the old image of the "Ugly American" had pretty much vanished in the West. Trump is singelhandedly reviving it. Plus, he's a liar, known to all.
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No doubt, DJT is a flawed individual, but compared to HRC, he's a day at the beach. Maureen, you wasted a lot of creative juices telling us what we all know. You forgot to mention that he's straightening out the mess BHO made of this country.
God Bless and protect DJT!☘️
God Bless and protect DJT!☘️
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Sorry Maureen, but Trump"s behavior to women is far worse than for men. Again your perceptive abilities are failing you just like your inability to see how horrible a prescient Trump would be.
Trump,has mostly white men in all his highest positions. When I see him in the Oval Office with his high trusted advisors, I am reminded of the nineteen fifties when white men had an iron grip on everything. And when the House passed the health insurance bill and the scene in the Rose Garden likewise, all those white men. These images are horrible for little girls and teenage girls to see.
Yes Trump attacks men also, but he gives them a lot of power. I just read that the Trump administration wants news about colleges who tolerate sexual abuses to be silenced. And don't forget he may still advocate the incarceration of women who get abortions.
Just think of that Maureen, back to the days of hanger abortions.
Trump,has mostly white men in all his highest positions. When I see him in the Oval Office with his high trusted advisors, I am reminded of the nineteen fifties when white men had an iron grip on everything. And when the House passed the health insurance bill and the scene in the Rose Garden likewise, all those white men. These images are horrible for little girls and teenage girls to see.
Yes Trump attacks men also, but he gives them a lot of power. I just read that the Trump administration wants news about colleges who tolerate sexual abuses to be silenced. And don't forget he may still advocate the incarceration of women who get abortions.
Just think of that Maureen, back to the days of hanger abortions.
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Trump supporters wear his vulgarity and cruelty on their sleeves like badges of honor.
That says a lot about them.
That says a lot about them.
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Trump makes crude and sometimes thoughtless remarks. He has odd quirks. He exaggerates. He has weird hair. He uses too much bronzer. He's thin-skinned. Okay. We knew all that going in. It's no surprise. Let's stop acting surprised when he is himself. No more pearl clutching, please.
I don't for a moment believe these aspects of him are what has his detractors in a constant state of agita. That's the excuse. He's hated for his agenda which is flatly contradictory to what Hillary and the Dem party pushed for. The media echo chamber that told Hillary she would win was wrong and the left has had a national mental breakdown and is stuck in the anger phase of grief. You guys have got to get over it.
I don't for a moment believe these aspects of him are what has his detractors in a constant state of agita. That's the excuse. He's hated for his agenda which is flatly contradictory to what Hillary and the Dem party pushed for. The media echo chamber that told Hillary she would win was wrong and the left has had a national mental breakdown and is stuck in the anger phase of grief. You guys have got to get over it.
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The "awe" reporting of the Trump "shock"; and somewhere, someone defends him. That's a cruel and unusual punishment. For what purpose?
Just let the vacuousness of his ideas and the smallness of his labels for individuals, groups of people, and nations say it all. Just play the tape.
Just let the vacuousness of his ideas and the smallness of his labels for individuals, groups of people, and nations say it all. Just play the tape.
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And to all the American voters who gave me this president, I can only say I'll never forgive it. Never.
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President Trump has struggled for decades with untreated mental health issues, stemming largely from learning disabilities.
Sexism, bodily fluids, hemorrhaging are not the real issues.
The bigger picture is a remarkably depressed individual who sought out five military deferments from the Armed Services of the United States.
A patient's narcissism prevents them from tolerating any criticism, and their responsive is rage and sheer cruelty.
Sexism, bodily fluids, hemorrhaging are not the real issues.
The bigger picture is a remarkably depressed individual who sought out five military deferments from the Armed Services of the United States.
A patient's narcissism prevents them from tolerating any criticism, and their responsive is rage and sheer cruelty.
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I have come to believe the empty shell called Trump, in his never-ending quest for adulation can only garner attention by oozing the slime of negation and degradation. He has no core, no soul, no intellect. He is not a leader, but a selfish twitter creep whose puerile instincts incited the anger of many ignorant Americans.
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If you even heard one word about this person ever, there is and was no legitimate reason to vote for him. Never mind as president, but for any position. I must admit over the years different stories about him never shone a positive light. In fact most info showed just the opposite. I dreaded the whole year, somehow he would through the only reason of being "different " would get him where he is today. Disgusted, not surprised by anything he has done. Where he has brought this country to. But what does confuse me is the Republican Party, who this guy also verbally abused them, stand by him. They are even trying to obstruct the investigations by the FBI, Mr. Mueller. I believe they are trying to make this country a "1" party nation. Welcome to Republicans Country of Russia 2.
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Every morning when I reflexively open the Times, Alexa BBC World News, or catch the World in 60, 90, or 120 seconds on CBS Morning, I'm reminded of Diane Keaton in "Godfather 2", screaming, "This must all end. This Sicilian Thing!" Obviously, this is not that, but as she adds in the film.... "that's been going on for a hundred years...", this thing seems to have been in progress for way too long, even if, when you add in the ugliest of campaigns, and the actual half year in office, it's been quite long and punishing just as it is. I'm also reminded of my first encounter with what we now call Mean Girls when I was in 5th grade. There were a few girls at the school I went to on Long Island who, enterprisingly, published a mimeographed gossip rag. They'd dish the dirt, what there was of it in a class of ten year olds, mostly by making fun of others in the class. Hence, Hubert, the kid with the biggest weight problem became "Fat Hubert, when he walks by the whole world shakes". I imagine those girls outgrew that. Maybe, not. But, obviously Trump hasn't. His combination of vanity and insecurity is absolutely cringeworthy. His unchecked girth, ridiculous hair and skin tone are perfect for the kind of criticism he regularly aims at others, mostly, but as Ms. Dowd points out, not exclusively, women. Anyway, this would be even more sickening if it didn't still seem like an aberration. We still can be shocked. But, when does this become so normative that we're shocked no longer?
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Those who voted for him say that they would do so again. He reflects them.
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I have to say, Ms Dowd, I had almost given up on you until your recent columns returned to the incisive, sharp and witty writing I had admired for many years. Welcome back.
What do you think of Rachel Maddow's take on Trump's willingness to go so low because he does not care about the things that he is seriously harming — the presidency, the country, America’s standing in the world.?
I happen to think she is right. Trump never thought being president would be more demanding, complex and difficult than running his privately held business. When he had to face the harsh unexpected reality, he lacked any capacity or willingness to adapt because he had never developed any respect for the Office or our democratic institutions.
Cruella's end was not a happy one. I'll settled for his resignation.
What do you think of Rachel Maddow's take on Trump's willingness to go so low because he does not care about the things that he is seriously harming — the presidency, the country, America’s standing in the world.?
I happen to think she is right. Trump never thought being president would be more demanding, complex and difficult than running his privately held business. When he had to face the harsh unexpected reality, he lacked any capacity or willingness to adapt because he had never developed any respect for the Office or our democratic institutions.
Cruella's end was not a happy one. I'll settled for his resignation.
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Donald Trump is once again showing the country and the world that he is a small minded man with small hands who is unfit for the large office he now holds. Or, as Marco Rubio said during one of last year's primary campaign debates (it seems so long ago), "if Donald Trump were not the offspring of Fred Trump, he would be selling counterfit rollex watches on a Manhattan street corner"...one could only hope.
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nasty in every way. very very sad.
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Trump is furious that he was elected. He expected to leverage his loss into a media empire and stuff his pockets with billions forked over by his legions of resentful imbeciles. The best he can do now is rent some hotel rooms to foreign potentates and charge his re-election campaign through the nose for fundraisers.
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I agree that Trump is vile and looks obsessed in his personal attacks on people - but it is critical to recognize the particular way he goes after women and the sexist and misogynistic language that he uses to target women both because we must acknowledge what a women hating beast he is and that this language resonates with so many of his white male (and sadly some female) followers. It's not by accident that trump uses words like "crazy," "hysterical" "dumb" and "ugly" to go after women. This language is precisely targeted to demean women in all the traditional madmen ways. i.e. It doesn't matter how smart and accomplished you are - an ugly toad like trump or one of his sycophants can put an uppity woman in her place by saying she's ugly or hysterical. It's a code we all understand - same as use of the word "thug" is used by trump and his supporters to target black people. As a woman, a mother, a professional - I am deeply disturbed and frightened by Trumps rhetoric. Last summer I watched him s rabid fans rage at his s rallies about Hillary Clinton and was acutely aware that what they hate are all powerful and accomplished women who've passed them by. Too bad Ms Dowd let her hatred of Ms Clinton cloud her understanding of Trumps hatred of all women like her
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I always thought G.W. Bush was as low as it could go. Now he looks like Marcus Aurelius next to this buffoon. Over here in Europe I have to be ready with a slew of explanations and excuses for this uncouth slob. As the damage piles up every day you have to wonder where is Theseus when we need him?
Will it be Bernie Sanders and a new 'People's Party' to take back the US from the corporate plutocracy?
Will it be Bernie Sanders and a new 'People's Party' to take back the US from the corporate plutocracy?
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The only thing fake going on here is the presidency and the man who is that. We have no president, we have a child bully who throws tantrums when he doesn't get his way.
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He is a nutcase and needs to be interned. As a woman, as a mother, as a dual citizen, I am offended every day by the actions, tweets and other garbage this toad sends out of his mouth. Please Maureen, write more! We need journalists like you, like Mika and Joe. We are all scared, Congress is the only thing that stands between him and us. The Republicans have no spine. We need to hold them accountable for everything this President does. They seem to be just as cruel as he is.
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Face -- Trump is either mentally ill or he's suffering from Alzheimer's -- either way -- he's not fit to be president of anything.
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A small minded, ego-challenged, pathetic, indulgent, clod who demonstrates his supposed great negotiating skills with the awareness of a 5th grade bully threatening a teacher with insulting Facebook posts if she doesn't change his grade...
Traits that were obvious to the majority of voters in 2016.
So, how did this dimwit become our president?
Traits that were obvious to the majority of voters in 2016.
So, how did this dimwit become our president?
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Well, Maureen, next time that someone like Donald Trump is getting close to the White House perhaps you'll refrain from nitpicking about his opponent.
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I have to commiserate with you Maureen, having to use so many epithets to define this ugly frog we have in the White House. He is so obsessed with looks, likely from his inability to stand his deteriorating disgusting image in front of a mirror, asking "mirror mirror on the wall, who is fairest of them all"? Your comparison of him being a swine may not be accurate, other than his obesity and the 'oinking'; a batrachian instead, trying to insuflate his ego with cruel bombast...and explode in our faces. Trump has always been a vulgar bully (a coward in disguise), claiming privilege for his dirty money, a mafiosi crook shaming himself with his insecurities by finding scapegoats to insult, and distract us from his malfeasance. And now, seeking relevance by trying to pass legislation, however cruel, by disenfranchising people from what he takes for granted for himself, health care. Perhaps we can ask Jeff Daniels to fetch Trump for a movie, titled "Sad, sadder, and saddest!"; or "Cruel, more cruel, most cruel".
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Nailed it with the Page Six reference. Trumpy sez: The word is Greta was fired for not going along with the haters!
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Great column, as usual. But you didn't mention how very overweight Trump is!!
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You are here at your best and most splendid, Ms. Dowd. If I may, you go girl. And go and and go.
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The multidimensional Trump : goon , loon, and buffoon.
The only variable is which of the three shall, be the dominant one, at any given time.
The only variable is which of the three shall, be the dominant one, at any given time.
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Boo hoo Trump says mean things to people who insult him and he treats men and women equally....here is what equality looks like in the 21st century. ..if you can't stand the heat stay out the kitchen...
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Where are the Christian leaders in this? Have they made a pact with their devil to "turn the other cheek" to this man's grotesque behaviours? there is appropriate scriptural reference to Trump type lifestyle and behaviours, John, 11:35
"Jesus wept"
"Jesus wept"
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Politics as usual or unusual. You decide. During the Clinton and especially to Obama administration, the right wing nut jobs went way out of their way to do everything they could to thwart the democratic agenda. Well the shoe is on the other foot now. So we should be nice. And give the poor Donald a break right? I think not. He is loonier than the looniest of that bunch.
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Most of us knew mean, insecure little bullies in junior high school.
None of us looked at these poor little wretches and saw a future president.
How wrong we were.
None of us looked at these poor little wretches and saw a future president.
How wrong we were.
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Ms.
Your article is what must be known as "New York" values to all of us in flyover country...
Your article is what must be known as "New York" values to all of us in flyover country...
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Be careful whom you destroy, snowflakes; you might not like their replacement.
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The absolutely worst part is that enough voters fell for his pack of lies, loved the pack of lies for their cruelty. And when those crush them through unfair cuts, they'll blame Obama. And Hillary. Remember Benghazi!
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There was a sweetness about Tony Soprano. There is no sweetness in Donald Trump.
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"Thine face is not worth sunburning". (Henry V, Act 5, scene 2, William Shakespeare).
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Sorry, I disagree.
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I think Trump says whatever pops into his mouth.
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Look up general paralysis of the insane. Maybe his " viet nam " was never treated .
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Your words only confirm that we have a person currently as POTUS who is not fit to serve in such capacity . Fearful and sad.
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England had its mad King George III. Bavaria had its mad King Ludwig II. And now America has its mad King Donald I. It can't happen here? It can. It did!
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Trump makes no secret of the fact that he despises the main stream media. That's one of the reasons he's loved by many. He did, after all, win the election.
I don't think that writers like Dowd fully understand that Trump is deliberately knocking their stools out from under them.
I don't think that writers like Dowd fully understand that Trump is deliberately knocking their stools out from under them.
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When you list "the matters that should alarm men and women equally" don't forget lowering the status and image of President of the United States into the cesspool.
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Trump is a jerk, cruel, low brow and not too smart.
Worse is his contempt for the Constitution, especially the First Amendment. Trump echoes Stalin: “The formula ‘enemy of the people,’” Mr. Khrushchev told the Soviet Communist Party in a 1956 speech denouncing Stalin’s cult of personality, “was specifically introduced for the purpose of physically annihilatiok "
Worse is his contempt for the Constitution, especially the First Amendment. Trump echoes Stalin: “The formula ‘enemy of the people,’” Mr. Khrushchev told the Soviet Communist Party in a 1956 speech denouncing Stalin’s cult of personality, “was specifically introduced for the purpose of physically annihilatiok "
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The Marquis d'Trump, perhaps. Sadism as Trumpism? Or, maybe a simpler explanation... perhaps Trump, at home, is subordinate to Metallic Melania and Icy Ivanka and compensates by treating other females cruelly.
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Maureen:
Fearing not I'd become my enemy the instant that I preached
Fearing not I'd become my enemy the instant that I preached
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What is wrong with him?
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See: Juanita Broaddrick. She has a tale to tell
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"...Trump was used to media that could be bought and sold ... ". Beware!
In Jeffrey Toobin's recent New Yorker magazine piece on Trump's close pal, the owner of The National Enquirer, US and Men's Journal, he mentions talk of the Enquirer holding company, American Media, buying Time magazine and related print properties. Beware of a Trump media empire that is limited to propagandistic FAKE NEWS! You've, no doubt, read about fascism.
In Jeffrey Toobin's recent New Yorker magazine piece on Trump's close pal, the owner of The National Enquirer, US and Men's Journal, he mentions talk of the Enquirer holding company, American Media, buying Time magazine and related print properties. Beware of a Trump media empire that is limited to propagandistic FAKE NEWS! You've, no doubt, read about fascism.
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I THOROUGHLY ENJOED THIS ARTICLE!
His Excellency is living rent free and having his way with not only O'Dowd but the entire eltie MSM. It truly is fun to watch them lose it.
Please keep the laughs coming. It's going to be a fun 8 years.
His Excellency is living rent free and having his way with not only O'Dowd but the entire eltie MSM. It truly is fun to watch them lose it.
Please keep the laughs coming. It's going to be a fun 8 years.
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I'm president, they're not, he says. So arrogant. You're some president, Donald Trump, and only in your eyes, you are not presidential material. It was a flaw and oversight, and such should be corrected. Hopefully God will strike you down for us.
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I like that Maureen compares Donald Trump to a pig. Because when I look into his eyes, that is exactly what I see. Anybody else feel the same way?
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Dowd and her fellow leftists are such hypocrites. The left has no grounds to invoke societal norms as the basis for attacking Trump. They wrote the book on how to violate societal norms. Our nation's loss of values and civility is rooted in the left's assault on our traditional, nation-building moral standards.
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Donald Trump reminds me of the crazy self destructive cult leader, Jim Jones. His voice even sounds the same. The more cornered Jones felt, the more dangerous he became. Sound familiar? Jim Jones murdered over 900 American cult members who followed him to Guyana. He had promised to make their lives great. Trump will bring down his cult followers in our country. I fear we are all going down with him. Cool-Aid anyone?
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People, this is not hard to fathom. There is no need to keep writing in wonder about Trump's behavior. He is and has always been Amygdala Man. His brain goes no further than where the limbic system and amygdala rule. The seat of our basest self is there. Fear, anger, envy, hatred, aggression all rule there. I used to think he had the brain of a Hyena, but that sells the hyena, who has family and protective instincts, far too short.
No sense in blaming him. Blame those who enable, who think they can control and manipulate the Amygdala Man. They cannot. They are the true villains: Ryan, Sense, McConnell, Bannon, Spicer, Conway and on and on. There will be a special place in history for them.
No sense in blaming him. Blame those who enable, who think they can control and manipulate the Amygdala Man. They cannot. They are the true villains: Ryan, Sense, McConnell, Bannon, Spicer, Conway and on and on. There will be a special place in history for them.
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Ms. Dowd
I suggest that in the interest of the public's need to know that you arrange a mine is bigger than yours showdown between Mika and the Donald where each will provide certified copies of there 4th grade I. Q. exams. I believe the exam was given during the fourth year of the elementary school year but I may be mistaken as to that.
I suggest the showdown be held in Central Park at its northern most end no later than 6:40pm on a Wednesday evening. If a party does not wish to participate they can tweet there refusal to you within 36 hours of the scheduled showdown. Neither participant can claim any other reason for opting out of the event but that they fear the other person's I.Q. is bigger than theirs.
Each person is required to be present for the envelope opening ceremony, that is, unless national security issues intervene. I further suggest that you act as moderator, if either party objects (that reads Trump) to you acting as moderator then I propose that former President Obama be the first you offer to stand in your stead.
All profits from the event should be donated to the Harlem Youth Ice Hockey League.
Betting is allowed for all.
I suggest that in the interest of the public's need to know that you arrange a mine is bigger than yours showdown between Mika and the Donald where each will provide certified copies of there 4th grade I. Q. exams. I believe the exam was given during the fourth year of the elementary school year but I may be mistaken as to that.
I suggest the showdown be held in Central Park at its northern most end no later than 6:40pm on a Wednesday evening. If a party does not wish to participate they can tweet there refusal to you within 36 hours of the scheduled showdown. Neither participant can claim any other reason for opting out of the event but that they fear the other person's I.Q. is bigger than theirs.
Each person is required to be present for the envelope opening ceremony, that is, unless national security issues intervene. I further suggest that you act as moderator, if either party objects (that reads Trump) to you acting as moderator then I propose that former President Obama be the first you offer to stand in your stead.
All profits from the event should be donated to the Harlem Youth Ice Hockey League.
Betting is allowed for all.
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Perhaps 45 should go see the Wizard along with the Tin Man. . . .or maybe the scarecrow.. . . . the Lion?
I'm a little concerned that this will be more than the Mighty Oz can handle.
I'm a little concerned that this will be more than the Mighty Oz can handle.
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Mika has done nothing but be pure hateful. I have sympathy for her pity party after she received a dose of her own medecine served right back to her! No foul on Trump, you can only take so much before hitting back.
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Trump learnt all his techniques from Roy Cohn, counsel to the discredited Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Bravo, Maureen. All of this needed to be said.
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Trump is not smart enough to read the first four paragraphs here and understand them.
Congratulations, America, this is your president.
Congratulations, America, this is your president.
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Ah yes, he looks good in spots. And he will look better in the nasty spot that awaits in the investigation by the FBI into his possible misdeeds with Comey.
Maureen, hold his feet to the fire.
Maureen, hold his feet to the fire.
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Excellent article......on point....it's a shame all the articles seemingly will go for naught.
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There seems to be a proclivity by "journalists" like Maureen abashing President Trump for his inane remarks, which overshadow job creation, fighting ISIS, overhauling the VA, reshaping global policies, etc, he's accomplished since his inauguration in January.
Perhaps these journalists fear Trump will succeed making AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
History notes we've never had a perfect president regarding faults and judgement. But, we've certainly seen recently journalists and various news media outlets have their fair share of fake news reporting and a myriad unethical practices.
Perhaps the more ethical and astute journalists should have the fortitude pointing the aforementioned deficiencies inherent in their colleagues, and by doing so, when President Trump clearly SNAFUS, validation of such takes on more credibility.
And if Maureen would do just that, maybe Joe Scarborough would love to see Maureen ride the like pole like he wanted Sen. Fred Thompson's hot wife doing so, broadcast on his 2007 radio show...where's Ms. D on that story...ah, hypocrisy...
Perhaps these journalists fear Trump will succeed making AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
History notes we've never had a perfect president regarding faults and judgement. But, we've certainly seen recently journalists and various news media outlets have their fair share of fake news reporting and a myriad unethical practices.
Perhaps the more ethical and astute journalists should have the fortitude pointing the aforementioned deficiencies inherent in their colleagues, and by doing so, when President Trump clearly SNAFUS, validation of such takes on more credibility.
And if Maureen would do just that, maybe Joe Scarborough would love to see Maureen ride the like pole like he wanted Sen. Fred Thompson's hot wife doing so, broadcast on his 2007 radio show...where's Ms. D on that story...ah, hypocrisy...
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Contradictions in terms: Jumbo Shrimp, Pretty Ugly, Little Bigger, President Trump.
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Trump's former friend Donny Deutsch insulted Trump worse than anyone has, calling him a pig, repulsively ugly, revolting to look at, etc., but Trump didn't have a word to say. Is Trump afraid of him? Donny even challenged him to a fight in the schoolyard. Cowardly Trump is silent.
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Trump attacks the press after belittling his opponents, then undermines the intelligence community, lambasts NATO, minimizes the UN, insults China by attacking "One China", tosses TPP without reading it, topedoes the Paris agreement, forgets to staff the State Department, risks 20 million Americans health care to save the upper 1 % a $trillion; and for 6 months refuses to even acknowledge the greatest risk to our democracy in 50 years --who cares of what diagnosis best describes this psychopath?
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Yeah, nothing new here.
And he won.
What does that say about us?
And he won.
What does that say about us?
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It is the highest irony to hear someone like Trump mock the physical appearances of others (man or women). Looking at him, he is a comical appearance, sort of Mussolini with orange glow and a hairdo that is even more comical than the one of Kim Jong Un. Hollywood wouldn't be able to invent such a character. Sadly though, he has transformed the office of the president into a trash talking, garbage spewing office, making it a laughing stock. So sad!
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A long article on cruelty just to join in on the "psychological deterioration" bandwagon.
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"Even the lowly rat, when cornered, turns and fights." So it would seem.
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Maureen I support the President of the United States, So happy your preferred candidate was rejected by the majority of the electorate. I hope you are very very very sad.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!
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"And his aides think John Bolton lost his shot at secretary of state due to his yeti mustache"
If I was Trump I'd have given him the job, seeing as he's the only guy I've ever seen with worse hair than Trump - plus he's deranged
If I was Trump I'd have given him the job, seeing as he's the only guy I've ever seen with worse hair than Trump - plus he's deranged
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Conservatives suffered through Obama with dignity while the Liberals didn't appreciate how much they received at the expense of future generations. Now, with conservatives in control the Liberals and snowflakes act like it's the end of the world that someone disagrees with their point of view. Why don't you muster some dignity until its your turn again. I just want people to treat our president with the same dignity we treated yours.
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Donald Trump's cruelty, stupidity, ignorance and malevolence. Poisening and tearing apart our everything in it's path.
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Maureen, Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you snark and snipe at Trump, he will return the favor. Be wary, Psuedojournalists and pundits. Trump will return fire and shine light on the fact that you are not really journalists but simply more self important kardashian-like attention seeking politicians with an agenda. We the People of flyover country are morbidly fascinated by the tempest in the tin-pot of Washington DC. Keep it up!
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Kellyanne, Ivanka, and Melania are constantly being attacked and no one ever calls it's cruel. Why are those attacks okay? No one ever calls these attacks misogynistic.
Re Trump, if someone, like Mika and Joe, punches and punches you over and over again, eventually you will punch back. It's called letting off steam.
Mika and Joe are the bullies.
Re Trump, if someone, like Mika and Joe, punches and punches you over and over again, eventually you will punch back. It's called letting off steam.
Mika and Joe are the bullies.
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He's had your ilk off-balance and reacting to him since we'll before the election. Focused upon tweets, which have become a hallmark of the tabloid 'journalism' found in far less-distinguished papers, You still don't get the bigger picture of global economic inter-dependency.
Name-calling from behind a veil of words and a photo, that is a far cry from au natural, is just as laughable as the Carnival of Clowns, who also insist they represent us.
Please, bring back those editors, and hurry!
Name-calling from behind a veil of words and a photo, that is a far cry from au natural, is just as laughable as the Carnival of Clowns, who also insist they represent us.
Please, bring back those editors, and hurry!
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I, for one, am tired of feeling like I am under the lash of this president's insanity. It makes me frightened. I do not feel safe as an American any more. I burst into tears today because of the anxiety I am feeling about Trump as our president.
He has proven himself untrustworthy for our allies, intent on getting 'money' from them; he has handed our classified information from the Israeli's to the Russians in our own Oval Office; he lies constantly; he wants to be friends with Putin who I feel already owns me; he hurts people constantly, he hurts all of us. All the time.
This man is UNFIT to be president. When will the Republicans step up and put Country Before Party!! And MONEY!!
He scares the heck out of me.
He has proven himself untrustworthy for our allies, intent on getting 'money' from them; he has handed our classified information from the Israeli's to the Russians in our own Oval Office; he lies constantly; he wants to be friends with Putin who I feel already owns me; he hurts people constantly, he hurts all of us. All the time.
This man is UNFIT to be president. When will the Republicans step up and put Country Before Party!! And MONEY!!
He scares the heck out of me.
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Show me one positive article about Trump from CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, or NBC. We all should agree that ISIS is a problem. Trump's approach to unleashing the military seems to be working. I haven't seen recent beheading videos, read stories about homosexuals being drowned in cages or thrown off 12 story buildings, so hey, is that something we all can agree on is a "good" thing Trump has done? I'll take a boorish president who stopped these atrocities over a soaring orator who was not effective. Sticks and stones, you know.
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Trump is in a street fight. I have been in a street fight. There are no rules and you use everything you have. So boo hoo about all the analysis of Trump. Street fighters don't care about anything but winning the fight.
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Of course when someone is calling Trump a pig, you can expect the soon bankrupt NY Times to open up, the rarely seen comments section.
Having said that, I agree Trump should lay off the tweets as it is most unbecoming the POTUS.
But so is calling the president a "pig".
Everything is crazy these days and tempers are flaring everywhere.
My strategy in this whole process is just to look out for myself as altruism is far and few in between in this world we live in.
Yes, Trump should stop with the insults, but equally so, the media should stop with their daily barrage of insults, Maureen Dowd included.
Having said that, I agree Trump should lay off the tweets as it is most unbecoming the POTUS.
But so is calling the president a "pig".
Everything is crazy these days and tempers are flaring everywhere.
My strategy in this whole process is just to look out for myself as altruism is far and few in between in this world we live in.
Yes, Trump should stop with the insults, but equally so, the media should stop with their daily barrage of insults, Maureen Dowd included.
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"I gave Trump the benefit of the doubt after his comment on Megyn Kelly about “blood coming out of her wherever” when he claimed he meant her nose. But later, a longtime Trump associate told me that Trump had practiced that line before he said it on CNN and that it was meant to evoke an image of Kelly as hormonal."
after the decades of mindless unceasing nasty against Hillary, (who I have no fondness or rspect for) Maureen gave the benefit of the doubt? No sister, you played ball with the pig.
after the decades of mindless unceasing nasty against Hillary, (who I have no fondness or rspect for) Maureen gave the benefit of the doubt? No sister, you played ball with the pig.
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You're kidding, right?! Maureen, please read your adjectives describing Trump and then tell us if he's REALLY going over the line when he tweets. The media has said every rotten thing about this man. He can't cough without some of you jumping down his throat. The public is SICK of your heartless comments and lies, lies, lies about him trying to do all in your power to discourage him and keep him from being effective. I say "bring it on, Donald." We're with you all the way. We love seeing someone who isn't willing to just lay down and die. We voted for a fighter and we LOVE you! The media is only in a panic because they haven't killed you off yet the way they do in an organized way with everyone they decide to get rid of. They invent scandals. They make mountains out of mole hills. They know the game well-- the more you tell a lie, the more people will believe it. SOCK IT TO THEM!!!
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Here's my TL;DR: I'm so sick of Trump being immature and calling people names, so I'm going to be immature and call him a pig. The goal here is to get Trump offline, because we can't beat him when he can bypass our narrative and go unfiltered straight to the people.
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Wouldn't it be fair to say that BOTH sides of the aisle need to wash their mouths out with soap? Calling the president a pig places you at the same level as all the others, including Trump. Where does responsible journalism begin to set an example?
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We are all now living in Oz. Don't look at the man behind the curtain. Trump believes he is the Wizard.
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What about his wives and exes? Has anybody put that public to smear the guy a little bit more… Especially with his sexist remarks?
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The real irony here is that Dowd is criticizing Trump for berating other people by berating Trump. The hypocrisy of the left never ceases to amaze.
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Trump, while undoubtedly cruel to others, is cruelest of all to himself because what he reveals he's thinking about others is, in fact, what he's really been thinking about himself. Yes, he'll boast of his intelligence and of his wealth, but then Trump, first and formost, is a complete liar. For instance, if he really believed he was smart why would he surround himself with idiots? If he was really wealthy, and not Putin's puppet, why wouldn't he release his tax returns?
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Unfair to Tony Soprano!
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As we prepare to celebrate our nation's 241st birthday, there's a need to examine our collective conscience about how we allowed a moral midget to occupy the White House once ennobled by presidential giants such as Jefferson, Lincoln and the two Roosevelts. Everybody makes mistakes, but please let's redouble our efforts not to make another one this appalling ever again.
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Seventy three years on this Earth and there have been some doozies in the White House , but nothing on the scale of Donald J. Trump....not even a distant second amongst the previous forty four.
The Age of Trump calls for rapid fire tweets in response to any perceived slights of which there are a continuous stream considering his new status as ruler of the American Roost
Accordingly , and while our foreign relations are rapidly deteriorating , our domestic policies in a rudderless shambles , and North Korea threatening everyone with it's nuclear nut show , here comes our own Donald J. Quixote focused solely upon aiming vicious barbs at a couple of morning show hosts who have questioned his integrity , his honesty , his puerile behavior ,and his fitness for office.....echoing the thousands of other journalists who make just such comments on a daily basis
It is fair to say that the Donald is far more concerned with his image than anything else. The fellow obviously has not a clue about what is contained in the proposed near trillion dollar tax cuts for the fat cats swapped for the health care of some 32 million citizens as projected by the CBO should the ACA be prematurely repealed
Mr. Trump has managed to offend every European ally while cozying up to such dictatorships as Saudi Arabia , Putin's kleptocratic regime , and the murderous Duterte in the Phillipines
And now the world wonders what to do
Buy him a crib , a rattle , and a hanging mobile. Maybe he'll go away
The Age of Trump calls for rapid fire tweets in response to any perceived slights of which there are a continuous stream considering his new status as ruler of the American Roost
Accordingly , and while our foreign relations are rapidly deteriorating , our domestic policies in a rudderless shambles , and North Korea threatening everyone with it's nuclear nut show , here comes our own Donald J. Quixote focused solely upon aiming vicious barbs at a couple of morning show hosts who have questioned his integrity , his honesty , his puerile behavior ,and his fitness for office.....echoing the thousands of other journalists who make just such comments on a daily basis
It is fair to say that the Donald is far more concerned with his image than anything else. The fellow obviously has not a clue about what is contained in the proposed near trillion dollar tax cuts for the fat cats swapped for the health care of some 32 million citizens as projected by the CBO should the ACA be prematurely repealed
Mr. Trump has managed to offend every European ally while cozying up to such dictatorships as Saudi Arabia , Putin's kleptocratic regime , and the murderous Duterte in the Phillipines
And now the world wonders what to do
Buy him a crib , a rattle , and a hanging mobile. Maybe he'll go away
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Not to pity the poor slob , but this current occupant of the White House is a psychological basket case . There can be little doubt that the daily and continuous atrocities and blunders and awkward and often mean , helpless lunges in the dark he commits are the product of a very troubled (unknown to the public) past . His perilously thin skin and morbid fear of bring criticized or laughed at had to have their origins in traumatic child-rearing practices that cruelly twisted and distorted the sad child so mistreated that as an adult he appears to be totally incapable of feelings of empathy and compassion . How inappropriate for the presidency of our great , once-revered country . His blind blind lurches seeking approbation , approval and "love" will forever be fruitless. -- the pitiful damage was likely done so long ago in the past . . . Irretrievable to this clownish clod . Can the American people find SOMEONE they can respect and be proud of , instead of sad about ?
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he's ours.... to our eternal disgrace and possible destruction....
To think that such as he can be the force that destroys our species is to imagine a flea destroying our planet.... but such is the irony of fate....
We are nothing, and trump is the nagging reminder....
To think that such as he can be the force that destroys our species is to imagine a flea destroying our planet.... but such is the irony of fate....
We are nothing, and trump is the nagging reminder....
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Apt and piercing Ms Dowd. Keep up your good work in the service of your country. The USA will not regain the respect of the civilised world before that putrescence is ousted and behind bars or confined to a secure wing.
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The President of the United States does not engage in public, meaningless, petty bickering with individual American citizens, his bosses, if he expects the respect normally bestowed upon the position.
It's SOP for the PettyDunce, however. And from his perspective, to label someone as 'dumb as a rock' is high praise.
It's SOP for the PettyDunce, however. And from his perspective, to label someone as 'dumb as a rock' is high praise.
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It is time for respected journalists like yourself to call for the impeachment of the President. You correctly state that Trump is cruel, pathetic, pathological, heartless, obsessed, etc. More importantly, you state that he is pychologically deteriotating. This certainly appears to be the case. Everyone has to stop apologizing, excusing and minimizing his egregious behavior. This man is not fit to be the President.
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The main problem with Trump is no longer that he is cruel. He is losing his cognitive abilities. His "cruelness" to "Low IQ Mika" and "Psycho Joe" was a complete and utter failure, much like my attempt to humiliate Serena Williams on the tennis court. No rational man would think that a lie about a woman bleeding from surgery would have any credibility. Especially when it was rather easy to establish that Ms. Brzeninski had not had surgery. This stupidity probably made Mika and Joe laugh in private, although they had their serious reporter faces on in public. (I think they should have laughed in public too.)
Somewhere in the back of Donald's brain he must have thought that of course a woman would not leave his wonderful incredible presence to go to an emergency room just because she was bleeding. After all, women bleed every month anyway.
The cognitive structure of Donald's brain is deteriorating.
Somewhere in the back of Donald's brain he must have thought that of course a woman would not leave his wonderful incredible presence to go to an emergency room just because she was bleeding. After all, women bleed every month anyway.
The cognitive structure of Donald's brain is deteriorating.
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Thank you Maureen for wise words. During this misogynistic malaise & this disassembling of the sacred writers of all stripes should take up pens & proclaim their individualities. More than just spewing anti-Trump bile new dramatists might approach our zeitgeist as creative disaster, One hundred two years ago Eugene O Neill created a progressive new American theater in a fishing shack on a wharf. New Found theater spaces with staged poetic pleas & prayers might examine & prophesize solutions. Theater can be instructive, utilitarian & prophetic. In San Francisco Playwright Dr. Larry Myers (of St John's University) has a Project mentoring unheard voices, unseen faces -- tent folks, homeless gay teens, long term PWAs & now abused women of Silicon Valley. This curiosity & do something approach can be more effective than just 24/7 kvetching. Time for a new utilitarian, challenging theater arts rather than show busyness & business.
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re: “When he was planning to run for president in 2014, he required males and females in his organization to get in shape, "
T Reported to think exercise diminishes his vital "juices" seems strange that he isn't leading by example...
T Reported to think exercise diminishes his vital "juices" seems strange that he isn't leading by example...
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Well said...but how did he get elected? He got more women voting for him then Hillary...is that true? Can you explain that? Read "Strangers in their Own Land" and one gets the alienation of the working poor and Democrats failure to engage/win them over. They are their natural allies.
It is unfortunately the arrogance of power personified by Hillary and the other non Trump candidates...that allowed Trump, the ultimate demagogue, to get a stage. Trump benefited from the perfect storm, the basic distrust of Hillary and weak Republican candidates.
Republicans will self destruct but will the Democrats be able to take advantage by moving to the middle?
It is unfortunately the arrogance of power personified by Hillary and the other non Trump candidates...that allowed Trump, the ultimate demagogue, to get a stage. Trump benefited from the perfect storm, the basic distrust of Hillary and weak Republican candidates.
Republicans will self destruct but will the Democrats be able to take advantage by moving to the middle?
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Trump has frontal lobe damage, probably genetic. People forget he was placed in a military school as a boy for much needed discipline. He has always been a problem for those around him, a curious blend of a sometimes "nice" personality which turns sour in a heartbeat, to cruelty and punishment., shrinks call it sociopathy, psychopathy, whatever it is, he shouldn't be president. Prisons are full of guys just like him.
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Seriously? While I watch the constant attacks on President Trump and the character assassination by "Leaders: like Pelosi Schumer and Maxine Waters. It is obvious the Psychological problems are not Trump but the defeated Progressives. The Progressive agenda that failed so badly is the reason Donald Trump ran for and was elected President. Most Americans support President Trump and the attempts to bring America back to the Union of Independent States that it is instead of the Centralized Proletariat is was becoming.
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Trump's supporters don't care about his cruelty. They just can't wait until Trumpcare passes! Trump's voters are DEMANDING their Senators and Congressmen take away their Obamacare and give the billionaires the tax cut they deserve. And give them the Trumpcare they know is better (at least until they need it). And then they want Trump to give seniors a voucher to buy Medicare on the free market and get rid of social security altogether. And then, when the Trump voters who defend his nasty remarks have their Trumpcare, and their granny has her new medicare voucher, they will finally be satisfied with the "new" America that respects them. Talk about being the same suckers Trump has always conned.
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Any time I've tuned in to Morning Joe recently it has been a hate fest. Everyone takes turns clubbing the unconscious body of Trump as if to see who can hit the hardest. It's a Roman Amphitheater of verbal violence that draws a bloodthirsty crowd of like-minded haters. I used to love the show. I can't bear it for more than a minute now.
Trump has put the spotlight on MJ with his tweets. Many more people will tune in to MJ to see what all the fuss is about. But MJ cannot continue with the extreme hatred without viewers seeing how nasty they are and how they got what they deserve. And without the hate they are boring.
Trump's tweets might bring about the neutralization of MJ and ultimately their disgrace and downfall. As usual, Trump is thinking several steps ahead of everybody else.
Trump has put the spotlight on MJ with his tweets. Many more people will tune in to MJ to see what all the fuss is about. But MJ cannot continue with the extreme hatred without viewers seeing how nasty they are and how they got what they deserve. And without the hate they are boring.
Trump's tweets might bring about the neutralization of MJ and ultimately their disgrace and downfall. As usual, Trump is thinking several steps ahead of everybody else.
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I love Collin's work, but I'm concerned we're being diverted by Trump's antics. Trump's cruelty is diverting us from a coup d'etat engineered by the one-percent and Putin's Russia - oligarchs all! The one-percent get reduced taxes governmental regulation, and Putin gets the freedom to build Russian power around the world, especially in Europe.
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Maureen, I hope and sense that you are right. Trump is deteriorating psychologically. He seems unable to parse reality from his own emotional needs. Perhaps what we'll soon see is a McCarthy-esque meltdown, where Trump's grasp on his own emotional state drives a level of irrational behavior that compels Republicans to act. He's a failure as President and there's no chance of turning it around. He's custom made to implode. It's in his DNA. This is why he bankrupted a casino, an airline and a university. But in the public sector there is no bankruptcy court. You simply get booted out of office. Or, equally likely in Trump's case, he quits; citing how unfairly he's being treated by the establishment. Whatever the case, the sooner he goes, the better for America.
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I think it is time for all of us to hold our noses and swallow the awful medicine of truth. All the people that didn't vote for Hillary or didn't cast a vote at all are finally realizing the damage that has begun to move into the fore front of our lives. Even the most noble of person can't hide from the result of their own decision to vote for him. I wish all that has been written about him and his "people" had an effect on any of them, but it doesn't. We the people who are looking for a new way to fix the problems we face in America, need to try to see past his vulgarity and take hold of the people in Congress and either vote them out or finally get them to hear us. Either way we have to fight for our rights yet again.
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All female TV news commentators could agree to wear stylish black suits, no arms, cleavage, etc. visible until Mr. Trump is gone. This might be a statement of solidarity and a push back against the rampant sexism we now experience. Side benefit: money saved by not buying all those various outfits could be donated to places or people in need. This might also answer the question: is the news is about sex, or about news?
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I wonder what kind of mirror Trump is looking into if beauty of face and body is so important to him. My guess is no mirror at all. The man doesn't exercise, eat decent foods, get much sleep, hasn't had a joyful thought, a warm smile, or a hearty laugh that would make him look attractive in decades. If he was to be judged by his own standards, he would fall off the bottom end of the scale.
But he is a rich man, and that adds so many points to the scale his physical appearance is inconsequential. Money, apparently is sexy. Not to me and to many free thinking people, but it can't be denied - ugly rich men have a lot easier time finding beautiful partners than ugly poor ones. Having it on full frontal display through the office of the presidency is embarrassing, but it's how the world has worked for eons.
From an episode of "Modern Family" - Some guy getting a look at old Jay's gorgeous young wife, asks him in wonder, "How rich are you?"
There you have it. In a family friendly sit com, no less.
But he is a rich man, and that adds so many points to the scale his physical appearance is inconsequential. Money, apparently is sexy. Not to me and to many free thinking people, but it can't be denied - ugly rich men have a lot easier time finding beautiful partners than ugly poor ones. Having it on full frontal display through the office of the presidency is embarrassing, but it's how the world has worked for eons.
From an episode of "Modern Family" - Some guy getting a look at old Jay's gorgeous young wife, asks him in wonder, "How rich are you?"
There you have it. In a family friendly sit com, no less.
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Melania was right -- he is a ten-year-old. He reminds me so much of the boys in my sixth-grade class -- gross comments about girls and their physical attributes (or lack of them); name-calling, belittling, and bullying. No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us. Obviously a case of arrested development.
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It never, ever4 feels to me "like we have a Page Six reporter as our president." No Page Six reporter deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the President of the Electoral College of the United States. Page Six reporters, like their front page counterparts, strive for truth and factuality. Failing that, they stay on Page Six. Such credentials, however, are not required for admission to the Oval Office.
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Keep up the great work Mr. Trump! Finally someone who will stand with the American people and fight toe to toe against the corrupt and fake MSM!
Trump 2020!
Trump 2020!
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I've been scrolling down reading the various comments. Many of us are outraged at the cruelty of the president. Some say Joe and Mika deserve it because they have savaged him.
All this controversy has fueled the divide between the left and right, conservatives and liberals, urban and rural, and red and blue.
What would happen if the press stopped reporting his tweets, regardless of how nasty and vicious they are? Way back during his run before the nomination, what would have happened if the press united and stopped covering his rallies? Maybe, just maybe, a different Rep might have been the nominee.
All this press coverage feeds into his narcissism and desire to 'be right and justified.' Those of us who are outraged by his behavior can't understand how people can support him, yet there are many who write comments to this paper who do. Obviously not all his supporters 'rednecks.'
I would like to see the press (both written and tv) stop reporting on his inane tweets and start focusing on the truly important issues: healthcare, taxes, Muslim travel ban. He won't stop tweeting, we all know that, but it would make his tweets less important.
All this controversy has fueled the divide between the left and right, conservatives and liberals, urban and rural, and red and blue.
What would happen if the press stopped reporting his tweets, regardless of how nasty and vicious they are? Way back during his run before the nomination, what would have happened if the press united and stopped covering his rallies? Maybe, just maybe, a different Rep might have been the nominee.
All this press coverage feeds into his narcissism and desire to 'be right and justified.' Those of us who are outraged by his behavior can't understand how people can support him, yet there are many who write comments to this paper who do. Obviously not all his supporters 'rednecks.'
I would like to see the press (both written and tv) stop reporting on his inane tweets and start focusing on the truly important issues: healthcare, taxes, Muslim travel ban. He won't stop tweeting, we all know that, but it would make his tweets less important.
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Why don't you report in full what comments were made by Mika to garner such cruel and unfair wrath? Also her misandrist attacks on the President? Lol. Typical defense, women demand to be treated equal but special.
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Trump is a perverted — and malevolent — version of Chance the Gardener, by way of the Picture of Dorian Gray (the final portrait).
He is merely the shiny object with a pen: a galactically ignorant, outrageous, petulant and deranged useful idiot to distract — and a pen to sign whatever is placed before him; in particular:
— Nominations to the federal bench (all very young, selected by hard-right "think tanks" and who, like virtually every Republican member of Congress, have the obscene temerity to call themselves "Christian," when in fact there is nothing — NOTHING — even remotely Christ-like about them) to fill the historic number of vacancies intentionally created by McConnell to end the last administration (127 in total, and remake the federal bench (and with it, the entire legal, social and political landscape of our republic) for well over a generation. THIS was the main driving force to capture the Oval Office (at any cost; by any means).
— Executive orders to rescind as much of his predecessor's legacy as possible, in particular to commercialize, debase and destroy as much of what is left of America's natural heritage and our environment (whilst enriching himself, his dynasty and their benefactors).
— What legislation may be passed by the GOP.
As Walt Kelly perfectly expressed it in "Pogo" (ironically appearing in a strip commemorating Earth Day, 1971), "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Sic transit gloria mundi (or at least that of the U.S.A.).
He is merely the shiny object with a pen: a galactically ignorant, outrageous, petulant and deranged useful idiot to distract — and a pen to sign whatever is placed before him; in particular:
— Nominations to the federal bench (all very young, selected by hard-right "think tanks" and who, like virtually every Republican member of Congress, have the obscene temerity to call themselves "Christian," when in fact there is nothing — NOTHING — even remotely Christ-like about them) to fill the historic number of vacancies intentionally created by McConnell to end the last administration (127 in total, and remake the federal bench (and with it, the entire legal, social and political landscape of our republic) for well over a generation. THIS was the main driving force to capture the Oval Office (at any cost; by any means).
— Executive orders to rescind as much of his predecessor's legacy as possible, in particular to commercialize, debase and destroy as much of what is left of America's natural heritage and our environment (whilst enriching himself, his dynasty and their benefactors).
— What legislation may be passed by the GOP.
As Walt Kelly perfectly expressed it in "Pogo" (ironically appearing in a strip commemorating Earth Day, 1971), "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Sic transit gloria mundi (or at least that of the U.S.A.).
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And yet you thought Hillary Clinton was too despicable to support. Watch what you wish for....
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Thank you. Thank you. Maureen. I am so sick of feminist victim-hood. How does that empower women? In general.
Then. Crying sexism at every Trump soundbite. Yes. He said Mika was stupid. He also said Joe was psycho. Chris Christie fat. Marco small. An equal opportunity insulter-in-chief.
Then. Crying sexism at every Trump soundbite. Yes. He said Mika was stupid. He also said Joe was psycho. Chris Christie fat. Marco small. An equal opportunity insulter-in-chief.
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All you couch psychiatrists out there analyzing him remember he is a successful businessman , had a hit TV shoe and beat out 17 candidate s all better than Hillary but then he beat her too. Can any of you say you have accomplished 1/10th what he has. Doubt it. Free country free speech. Judt prepare for 7.5 more years of crying in your pillow while you watch him repair west your man Obama did. Now he is the guy you should be crying about.
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Maureen, if only you had written such an honest story about 45 a year ago.
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Oh please Maureen,that is why we like him. He is more like us than you.
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This is the fault of the CONSTANT bullying by the LEFT!!!
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I feel sorry for somebody Maureen goes after passionately! Even if the person is the worst criminal. She brings out the words mercilessly.
blah blah, women can and are completely sexist every single day... get over it. It's called life and humanity.
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Thank God for John Bolton's mustache. At least we haven't started WWIII. Yet.
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We get it Maureen. You thought Hillary would win.
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The discussing Democrats are so much fun to watch implode. President Trump is fixing a billion things and you Democrats are constantly mouthing pure junk. You hate President Trump and we have zero use for you Democrats and your media friends.
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Too Little, too late, Maureen. Where were you when we needed you in the fall?
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Oh, Moe... so much teeth gnashing. Here's the thing, sweetness... if women want to be equal, then they need to stop expecting some kind of preference where it concerns civility. We had people whining about McEnroe pointing out that a female could not compete against male counterparts - but here we have you talking about how sensitive women are about their looks? Grow up, Maureen... have a little more faith in your gender. Trump is mean! Boohoo, honey... grab a tissue. I am sick to death of rabid feminists reaching for crutches when things get a little too tough. Brzezinski gave as good as she got - she seems to walk the walk... something you might consider for yourself if you're going to put yourself out there as some sort of champion for Trump's victims. It seems as though you might be the one that needs to be championed. What did he say about you that hurt your feelings so badly that you would launch into this vapid tirade? PATHETIC.
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"Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est" -- All cruelty springs from weakness (Seneca)
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Guess Dowd prefers that it is more Presidential to get oral sex from interns. Billy boy had the MSM backing him up through out those times. It is now 2017 if a Republican President does not push back he or she is toast. Trump knows dealing with social media is not a one sided event. Mika and Joe said terrible things about him and he just fired back. Ironically she did not deny bleeding from a face lift, lol.
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Yes and no. He's not a terribly nice guy. But there's an obsession with women and blood that is a little weird. I'm not sure he's completely in control of it. Maybe Ms. Dowd should have another talk with him?
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I still don't believe this demented scoundrel is our President. I just pray he will not stage the equivalent of a Reichstag Fire to salvage his flagging popularity. He is perfectly capable of trying to start a civil war. He has far overreached his ability to fake his way through life and retreats ever deeper into fantasy grudges, instead fulfilling the offices that are his duty to perform.
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You, "...gave him the
WOW!!! A column without nasty references to the Clintons and Obamas! I guess not even you can overlook the sadistic cruel con artist voted in as President. I bet even you would long to have back the no drama Obama, who saved the U.S. from a terrible economic breakdown - one that Trump is doing his best to bring back.
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Trump is always using the OK sign with his right hand.
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I suggest that opponents use the OK sign to parody him.
I fear that the American people are getting used to Donald Trump. Whatever he says and does is now the new normal. The criticism comes and goes and the Donald is still in charge, leading the way. Trump is AOK.
Trump is like Alfred E. Neuman from Mad magazine: "What, me worry?"
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If we express our worry with Trump using the OK sign, it might just help.
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I suggest that opponents use the OK sign to parody him.
I fear that the American people are getting used to Donald Trump. Whatever he says and does is now the new normal. The criticism comes and goes and the Donald is still in charge, leading the way. Trump is AOK.
Trump is like Alfred E. Neuman from Mad magazine: "What, me worry?"
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If we express our worry with Trump using the OK sign, it might just help.
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And who's controlling the topics in the Media?
Been reading you for a (long) while...
He's gotten to you, Mo - hasn't he...
Two words: Mike Bloomberg
He did an amazing job in NYC - and yet you all act like he never existed...
As the song said: "...Don't know what you got till it's gone...
As the other song said: "...If [we] could turn back time...
For once - try fronting a politician rather than flaming one...
As the other other song said: "...I'll tip my hat to the new constitution -
take a bow for the new revolution...
He's gotten to you, Mo - hasn't he...
Two words: Mike Bloomberg
He did an amazing job in NYC - and yet you all act like he never existed...
As the song said: "...Don't know what you got till it's gone...
As the other song said: "...If [we] could turn back time...
For once - try fronting a politician rather than flaming one...
As the other other song said: "...I'll tip my hat to the new constitution -
take a bow for the new revolution...
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"...that it was meant to evoke an image of Kelly as hormonal." That you are announcing this now as NEWS is why you have Trump aa a President. Good for you. You wrote false equivalency piece after piece, now you have seen a light. Yawn
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But, yet he's front page news with his tweets day in, day out . . .
Don't you get it? He's doing what has gotten him here and will continue until he's cut off. And, while Dowd is tut-tutting about manners, she's not commenting on atrocious travel ban, atrocious tax and infrastructure "plan", atrocious plan to dump so much more money into the military that even they can't imagine what to do with it all, the atrocious healthcare plan that starts with stamping out Planned Parenthood . . . on and on it goes.
You think he's dumb, but looks to me like NYT and Dowd are the ones getting played.
Don't you get it? He's doing what has gotten him here and will continue until he's cut off. And, while Dowd is tut-tutting about manners, she's not commenting on atrocious travel ban, atrocious tax and infrastructure "plan", atrocious plan to dump so much more money into the military that even they can't imagine what to do with it all, the atrocious healthcare plan that starts with stamping out Planned Parenthood . . . on and on it goes.
You think he's dumb, but looks to me like NYT and Dowd are the ones getting played.
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And are your conservative siblings still gloating about their man?
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Two questions:
Did Mini Mika and her pal Psycho, insult DJ Trump on a personal basis, or were they professional journalist in every way?
Is receiving the talents of an intern in the Oval office, presidential, and display a non sexist persona?
Just sayin'
Did Mini Mika and her pal Psycho, insult DJ Trump on a personal basis, or were they professional journalist in every way?
Is receiving the talents of an intern in the Oval office, presidential, and display a non sexist persona?
Just sayin'
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You've got "drafted" democrats on the Vietnam memorial wall. And you got full dinner jacket bone spur deferment Trump. Fore!
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He's all yours, Ms. Dowd. You helped to install him, you own him. Take him away.
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And yet: you can't get over your own privileged access to this monster, who was always a monster. Shame on you!
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Maureen -- when will you apologize to America and the world for helping to elect this crass and cruel buffoon who you chose to criticize only after the fact?
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Let's face it - Trump is a despicable human being and the people who support him are idiots.
The question is, what can we do about it?
The question is, what can we do about it?
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Ok Maureen, so you've been an insider all along and known so much about Trump's ugliness.
And yet you flirted with endorsing him and pounded Hillary relentlessly
Shame on you and it would be so much better if you just wrote something explaining your abetting Trump being elected.
Come on and come clean.
And yet you flirted with endorsing him and pounded Hillary relentlessly
Shame on you and it would be so much better if you just wrote something explaining your abetting Trump being elected.
Come on and come clean.
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There is an adult sized two year old in the White House.
Its that simple
Its that simple
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As Psychology Today notes, Donald J. Trump is NUTS!!... “Malignant Narcissists will go to great lengths to achieve their aim. They can be intelligent, high functioning (hold an important job for example) soft-spoken, charming, tearful/seemingly emotional, gracious, well-mannered, kind and have the ability to form relationships. They may lie, falsely accuse, dramatize, smear, cheat, steal, manipulate, accuse, blame or twist to get what they want and feel justified in doing so. Because they are entitled, egocentric and desperate, they do not experience it as wrong.”
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And while liberals are in full blown outrage with their helpless leaders on legacy media protecting 'the brand', The House passed two bills Thursday to boost President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The bills — "Kate’s Law" and the "No Sanctuary for Criminals Act".
Inside the home wrapped in tin foil, glued to the propaganda box and soaking up the latest drama from corporate talking heads and Russian bogey-man conspiracy theories, is a much safer place to be for all of us.
Live long and prosper. V
The bills — "Kate’s Law" and the "No Sanctuary for Criminals Act".
Inside the home wrapped in tin foil, glued to the propaganda box and soaking up the latest drama from corporate talking heads and Russian bogey-man conspiracy theories, is a much safer place to be for all of us.
Live long and prosper. V
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Another sad article by an elitist New York liberal trying to be a victim. Please keep writing swill like this. The more media elitists such as you whine and gnash their teeth, the more support Trump will get from the states that he won. The media is playing checkers and Trump is playing chess.
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No long remarks about Trump from me. The man simply reminds of every personality disorder displayed by Mafia tough guys.
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Trump is an ALPHA MALE...something none of you are accustomed to. It's nice to have a MAN in office...for a change. Thank GOD!
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The Trump that ate the Whitehouse.
It was the bestest tasting ever!
I know cause I built it!
It was the bestest tasting ever!
I know cause I built it!
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You are wrong. Yes, he is cruel to anyone that displays a lack of proper respect and humility to his greatness, in his " mind". But, the attacks are much more vicious, specific and, especially, public towards Women. Why??? Because he's a Coward, deep down. Somewhere in his brain, he fears that a MAN could, and possibly would, physically thrash him. That's it, he's afraid of getting beat up. Surely, a mere Woman couldn't do that, right??? Wrong. And the older and fatter he becomes, the more he SHOULD worry. Thank goodness for the Secret Service.
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Isn't there a rest home for deranged "journalist" or those who think they are "journalist". Trump is president and it's about time this woman figures it out
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MD: "I gave Trump the benefit of the doubt after his comment on Megyn Kelly about “blood coming out of her wherever” when he claimed he meant her nose."
Maureen, there is no way trump meant anything other than what the Nation understood. Really, how could you give him the benefit of the doubt when his track record precedes him exponentially.
trump (with a little T!) demonstrates all the qualities of a text book narcissist. With each vile, demeaning, racist comment he makes, his party and his base make excuses and cheer him on. With each categorical lie he tells, his party fails to hold him accountable and his base call liberals snowflakes for taking umbrage at the disdainful quality of the demeaning comments. He doesn't care if he gets mud on him, as long as there is more on the other guy.
Fully supported by the GOP, let me repeat that, "Fully supported by the GOP" and his base, not only will this man reduce the presidency to the "wacko in the oval office" or "wacko over in the US" he will reduce politics to a "who can gross you out the most" competition.
Maureen, there is no way trump meant anything other than what the Nation understood. Really, how could you give him the benefit of the doubt when his track record precedes him exponentially.
trump (with a little T!) demonstrates all the qualities of a text book narcissist. With each vile, demeaning, racist comment he makes, his party and his base make excuses and cheer him on. With each categorical lie he tells, his party fails to hold him accountable and his base call liberals snowflakes for taking umbrage at the disdainful quality of the demeaning comments. He doesn't care if he gets mud on him, as long as there is more on the other guy.
Fully supported by the GOP, let me repeat that, "Fully supported by the GOP" and his base, not only will this man reduce the presidency to the "wacko in the oval office" or "wacko over in the US" he will reduce politics to a "who can gross you out the most" competition.
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Breathtaking attack? You people really are focused on words. WORDS. Breathtaking attack is NERVE GAS in Syria, or Iraq. Breathtaking. No. We are better than them. Our breathtaking is metaphorical since we actually don't do breathtaking. I am, anyway. Got it, Maureen
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I'm a conservative who fully agrees with the general message of this article: Trump is a loathsome human being and an embarrassment to those on both sides of the aisle. But for a liberal to illustrate his "Pravda" arrangement with the National Enquirer is laughable. First, the National Enquirer is a silly gossip rag with little actual influence on American sentiment. Second, Obama had the mainstream press licking his boots for 8 years. Pravda would be going lightly on Obama's treatment in the press. Try Korean Central News Agency.
I am afraid Ms Dowd is without the merest shred of credibility on Trump. So-called "Liberals" might be shocked that the early demonization of Hillary was not by some demonic alt-right fringe group but by William Safire OpEds here at the NYT. He coined the term "congenital liar" to describe her and used other disgusting epithets preceding Trump. Ms Dowd was a faithful student of Safire when it came to demonizing, diminishing Hillary. I have a trunkful of disagreements with Hillary. But, this is an extraordinary women who just 20yoa went undercover in Alabama to expose racism in housing allocation-(Trump and his father were racial profiling to stop Blacks in their properties in this era), who campaigned for McGovern in 1972 in inhospitable Texas, who for more than 4 honorable decades campaigned for the rights of children, women, for universal health care, for veterans, for reproductive rights...an immensely brave, an honorable life. Ms Dowd never once considered this was a record worth evaluation, maybe admiration.
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Nice touch , Mo
Cruella being the feminine of Cruel
Cruella being the feminine of Cruel
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I know it's not the point, but can we start calling them tank-tops and lose the 'wife-beater'?
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From Mayo clinic page:
"Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism."
Any questions?
"Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism."
Any questions?
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This column is far too kind...though accurate.
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Trump is the glorious wrecking ball, sent by God, to destroy political correctness by fighting it on its own level!
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It really is unfair to pigs to compare Donald Trump to one. Pigs are smarter, nicer, and kinder than Trump. Most pigs are better qualified to be president than Trump. If I were going to compare Trump with anything living it would probably a dangerous virus. If I had to choose a multi-celled animal, it would probably be some disgusting parasite.
But not a pig -- sexist or otherwise.
The most appropriate thing to compare Trump with wouldn't be alive at all. And it wouldn't be appropriate to name it in a publication that might be read by minors. But it starts with PO...
But not a pig -- sexist or otherwise.
The most appropriate thing to compare Trump with wouldn't be alive at all. And it wouldn't be appropriate to name it in a publication that might be read by minors. But it starts with PO...
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Equal rights for women? yes, so why would you want women to be treated any different than a man? only sometimes? please....
toughen up.
Is POTUS being given the respect that office is due? or do you just want POTUS to adhere to some artificial standard, we are all equal, just different.
Cruelty? how old are you? and where have you been sheltered that normal every day human pecking order exchanges offend you. Welcome to the human race.
Like it or not this is who we are.
toughen up.
Is POTUS being given the respect that office is due? or do you just want POTUS to adhere to some artificial standard, we are all equal, just different.
Cruelty? how old are you? and where have you been sheltered that normal every day human pecking order exchanges offend you. Welcome to the human race.
Like it or not this is who we are.
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very dear ms dowd: i am wondering ¿ what a vast store of availability in the art of incapacities will be gathered once YOURS and tom freedman¨s on mr president. ?
Maureen, have you EVER visited New York City ?
There is nothing about Trump's personality that is not replicated a hundred times on every block of every street in New York ?
Enough with the puerile whining.
The guy is a New Yorker, from Queens no less.
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I'm not suggesting someone do this, this is only a fantasy of mine.
Why not fight fire with fire? why not have someone hack into POTUS twitter account - it can't be a security breach , he does it all the time. there are no state secrets encrypted.
And then whomever that person is should share and we can all send tweet bombs.
Sound asinine or juvenile ...uh, sound like anyone you know?
Why not fight fire with fire? why not have someone hack into POTUS twitter account - it can't be a security breach , he does it all the time. there are no state secrets encrypted.
And then whomever that person is should share and we can all send tweet bombs.
Sound asinine or juvenile ...uh, sound like anyone you know?
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Ms Dowd: The man you write about is our president in large part because of the press coverage he and Hillary Clinton received during the campaign. You took great relish in destroying Hillary's character every chance you could. I hope you can look at yourself in the mirror each day and be at peace with what you helped bring about.
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Trump is a very strange guy … he attacks, and attacks, and … he watches wayyyy too much TV instead of doing his job.
Trump is like a loose cannon on a heaving wet deck in a stormy sea … firing off in all directions … he is his own worst enemy !!!
This is similar to the old story of Nero fiddling while Rome was burning … well, the Twitter in Chief according to a MSNBC statement from a recent NYT article “spends his time bullying, lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job” !!!
Step back for a moment and consider the reality of the big picture. The incompetent Trump and Republican Party have NOT passed any important legislation since the election !!!
Meanwhile the reality is that the “to do” list of Government on responsible social and economic issues that require legislation keeps growing and getting longer and longer, and NOTHING IS BEING DONE !!!
Instead of serving America and Americans they are causing great harm and damage to America and Americans !!! They have to go !!!
Trump is like a loose cannon on a heaving wet deck in a stormy sea … firing off in all directions … he is his own worst enemy !!!
This is similar to the old story of Nero fiddling while Rome was burning … well, the Twitter in Chief according to a MSNBC statement from a recent NYT article “spends his time bullying, lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job” !!!
Step back for a moment and consider the reality of the big picture. The incompetent Trump and Republican Party have NOT passed any important legislation since the election !!!
Meanwhile the reality is that the “to do” list of Government on responsible social and economic issues that require legislation keeps growing and getting longer and longer, and NOTHING IS BEING DONE !!!
Instead of serving America and Americans they are causing great harm and damage to America and Americans !!! They have to go !!!
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President Trump is a colorful person and he uses colorful language...get over it crybabies.
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This article is nothing new or surprising, given the source and the paper she writes for. The deplorables finally have a voice and, just to be clear...HE WILL BE HERE FOR 8 YEARS!
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93% of news items are negative towards President Trump, you are laying off staff, and our economy is getting more robust everyday. Obama did little for our economy, Hillary manipulated her win with the DNC and rigged her freedom with Bill on the tarmac with Lynch. Keep telling yourselves he's not legit, and keep losing across the country with no message other than the discredited Russia joke.
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Do you regret any of those "mean girl" columns about Hillary yet? Trump is a monster that you had a hand in creating. His cruelty was always on display. It's a little hypocritical to complain about it now.
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I enjoy reading the press who never tired of impugning the physical imperfections of conservative women such as Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly Nancy Reagan, Betty Ford for decades suddenly find it intolerable (because let's face reality, the left is the home of intolerance and bigotry) that someone like Donald Trump is as happy and proud and comfortable and abjectly unrepentant and unshame-able as vicious shrews like opinion writers at the Times.
If you can't take it, then stop dishing it.
If you can't take it, then stop dishing it.
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It's time for us to stop ascribing filthy disgusting behavior to pigs. Pigs are are comparatively intelligent, clean and orderly animals. Some are even domesticated and house-trained. Considering how horribly they've been treated by humans through the millennia and the fact that we're constantly stuffing their flesh into our mouths, which species is more filthy and disgusting, I ask you?
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Maureen, you helped to bring this biblical plague upon us. You used your power and influence to besmirch Hillary Clinton for the very act of breathing.
You knew what would happen if Trump became President. We know you didn't like Clinton -- and neither did a lot of people -- but no one can argue that we wouldn't be in a much better national condition if Trump had been sent back to the attic in his castle. Just like Beauty and the Beast. Without the Disney ending.
You knew what would happen if Trump became President. We know you didn't like Clinton -- and neither did a lot of people -- but no one can argue that we wouldn't be in a much better national condition if Trump had been sent back to the attic in his castle. Just like Beauty and the Beast. Without the Disney ending.
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I suspect the only thing about this Trump will dislike - despise really - is that you've given him a woman's moniker, thus putting the lie to your premise. That Cruella de Vil is much smarter and has better hair will just bite deeper. It is true that he spews vitriol freely across the gender spectrum, but come on, he loves men and calls them handsome when he feels it warrants. He aspires to be a real one. But still, he behaves like a prepubescent boy who thinks girls are gross. Pig or sexist pig? How about we leave it at both.
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God protect James Mattis. I'm not kidding. And let's hope Robert Mueller can do his job as quickly as possible to get rid of this bottom-dwelling blowfish. I can't imagine the Republicans aren't waiting for just enough info to impeach. If not, I think we're in trouble because something bad will eventually happen and the thought of Dr. Orange behind the wheel is terrifying.
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Trump's final act is attempting to win by swaying enough supporters to rally to his lies that an insurgency of deceivers (the media) is falsifying how bad he is.
It is reminiscent of Mao calling on his legions of faithfully ignorant Red Guard to take out the educated elites.
It is reminiscent of Mao calling on his legions of faithfully ignorant Red Guard to take out the educated elites.
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Why write the same story over and over. We know what he is.
How about a strategy to get rid of him politically. Let's hear some good ideas for winning the mid-term elections and in 2020. Enough whining. Please!
How about a strategy to get rid of him politically. Let's hear some good ideas for winning the mid-term elections and in 2020. Enough whining. Please!
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Welcome to terra incognita. We have sailed off the margins of the map. By our own truculent moral relevancy, we have blundered into a realm beyond the channel markers not only of our own American story but of any known human political history. There is no precedent for this peculiar quicksand we dove into with orgiastic certitude buoyed by insolent ignorance. This filthy deranged half-man and his legions of sycophants have been eagerly handed the keys to the kingdom with utterly blind perverse disdain for the foundations of a civil society laid down for us over thousands of years by enlightened guardians of human progress. The rabble has been roused from the dark corners, and there is no one with a light nor any belief in who or what might guide us. We've created a culture of destruction of moral order. The cacophonous voices of me me me shout out of one we are now militantly many.
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Does anyone really think a person who was bleeding profusely from recent surgery (a face lift) would be sitting blithely in a restaurant like nothing was happening. So - you say the reference is to menstrual blood. It seems that Trump is actually an 8-year old boy, who just learned that women menstruate &, of course thinks it's revolting. So do 8-year old girls. I can't figure the Hillary thing though. Most 8-year olds are pretty matter-of-fact about urination. Now, 5-year olds frequently find it hilarious.
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Fortunately Hillary will never be president and for that I thank Trump for.
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Ok, we have established that Trump and the Dems hero, Bill Clinton, are both over sexualized. Now can we debate the merits of a tax cut and a secure border? Your obvious double-standard is pitiful.
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"[Y]ou can never be sure of anything that comes out of this White House."
So apparently the White House, per Dowd, is acting like the news media and the Dems have for decades, with an increase in such behavior since Trump became President. Since the American people have been prepared for such things by the news media and the Dems, they should be able to handle it from Trump.
So apparently the White House, per Dowd, is acting like the news media and the Dems have for decades, with an increase in such behavior since Trump became President. Since the American people have been prepared for such things by the news media and the Dems, they should be able to handle it from Trump.
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Donald and Melania Trump would be wise to remember the Obama's advice: "When they go low, we go high." Obama's approach is presidential and what the world expects from the occupant of this office.
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I am tired, tired, tired of this hideous man. Nirvana would be never ever again having to see his ugly, hateful countenance or hear his ingratiating, lying, limited vocabulary rhetoric. But since Nirvana eludes us, my nerves will continually be rattled by every new and ridiculous utterance.
Is there anyone out there who can figure out how to turn the tide and rid us (with compassion of course) of this despicable creature and restore us to a civilized society again. It would be a nice independence day gift. Otherwise it will not be a happy 4th; nothing to celebrate, only dismay and hopelessness.
Is there anyone out there who can figure out how to turn the tide and rid us (with compassion of course) of this despicable creature and restore us to a civilized society again. It would be a nice independence day gift. Otherwise it will not be a happy 4th; nothing to celebrate, only dismay and hopelessness.
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Trump is stoking the flames in preparation for the 2020 election and, I predict, WAR is a means to his re-election. Watch.
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As a former inmate of the political "cesspool" of NJ Dem politics, I applaud President Trump for his courage to stand up to the elites in the media! Keep "tweeting", I enjoy watching the "talking heads" chasing their tails while our President is "Making America Great Again". The snarky snobs are too smart to realize that they are getting "played" by the master showman! In a few years you will wake up and say "oh my God he did what he said he was going to do"!
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What has happened to America? How in heaven's name could Trump be elected its leader? France defeated hate in a landslide, America put hate in the White House. America has gone mad, putting the fate of their country in the hands of a madman. Are Americans so full of themselves, so self-centered, they think even a deranged man-child can lead them? To they not know how fragile democracies are? America has a harsh lesson to learn. They have put their 241 year history in peril. Never mind asking, what is wrong with Trump? More importantly, what is wrong with America?
DD
Manhattan
DD
Manhattan
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Maureen Dowd can call the POTUS a pig and that is acceptable but if Trump fights back as anyone attacked should be allowed to do, his comments are not acceptable. If it were not for a double standard libs would have no standards at all. They will never get over the loss but what they are doing is not the way America replaces a president. I hated every second of the Obama administration but it never occured to me to act in the way the libs are now acting. Shame on them.
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Stop complaining! While Trump spends his time tweeting and golfing, he does not spend time on foreign and domestic matters. Trump should be "encouraged" to do much more tweeting and golfing.
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trump brings animus to the Oval Office where his predecessors sought gravitas.
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What ever he say's about them is not near enough. The media have personally insulted him from the first days he announced his candidacy for President till now. If they can dish it out then they should expect to get it dished right back. Whiners and losers.
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The real question is who is really in charge in Washington?
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/07/01/trump-wounded-distra...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/07/01/trump-wounded-distra...
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He's stupid. He wouldn't admit to that himself, of course, but that's his root problem: he's too stupid. It will be his downfall.
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Did you ever consider - in view of the fact "Russiagate" has dropped from the news in favor of 24/7 coverage of the Morning Joe tweets - that Trump is crazy like a fox?
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Yes, cruelty to disobedience; however, if you choose obedience, and you're not Callous --sociopathic-- you will soon be looking for new employment as your morals, ethics, and fear of arrest take over.
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The MSM Their mantra "Trump must go so we can keep the status Quo."
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Interesting and insightful....but please....enough with denigrating animals to describe someone who behaves 'less than human'. Quite frankly, it's an insult to a pig ... and I have more respect for the pig than the human to whom you liken it.....
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Ms. Dowd, you've (finally!) got the essence of Trump. As to what Trump has done to the office of POTUS, the first page Friday's New York Daily News provides an example of how a picture can be worth 10,000 words.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-daily-news-front-pages-gall...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-daily-news-front-pages-gall...
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How about a little perspective. Mika has for the last six months called Trump every name in the book. He calls her a name and she acts like she's Mother Theresa. This reveals the insincerity of feminism.
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Saying Trump acts like a pig is an insult to pigs. They are actually very intelligent animals capable of forming friendships and bonds of affection with creatures of many kinds, including humans. They don't lie, blurt out state secrets to the Russians, conduct shoddy business deals, jilt self-employed contractors, or exploit badly-treated foreign labor to make exorbitant profits at the expense of American workers. Most pigs suffer inhumane and miserable living conditions in our factory farms and then are slaughtered for food. This is bad enough; must we continually compare them to the most vile man in America?
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Bizzaro, by the San Francisco cartoonist Pirarro, does some interesting takes on the man. Yesterday's "Take me to your leader" one was interesting.
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President? What president? If he doesn't act like one, then stop calling him president. Just call him Trump. Everyone in the MSM should do this.
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You people on the left still don`t get it. It`s immigration and finance. When Obama rang up an additional ten trillion in debt, he sunk us. His miserable presidency left our borders under siege and gave us a mandate to purchase a product at the point of a government gun. We chose Trump to undo the great society and the new deal because they had failed spectacularly. And you won`t allow it to happen peacefully, so you get the brunt of it. Reap what you have sown.
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The fact that Dowd was still giving trump the benefit of the doubt by the time he made the Megyn Kelly remark just indicates, once again, how she and the rest of MSM, who indulged and elevated to front page headlines, his cruel, infantile behavior aided and abetted this joke of a "president". Not to mention her Hillary-hating rants which gave voters cover to claim that both candidates were equally bad. Not by a long shot and now we're all paying the price.
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Between the time he spends watching cable TV and tweeting, plus the hours it must take to get and keep that comb-over in place, what exactly does this guy do?
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Added to the indisputable fact that there are hundreds of people in Congress so similarly slimy that they refuse to use their power to silence The Slimester himself, an American tragedy of historical proportions.
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I've always had a thing about Maureen Dowd, about the way she has of destroying a person with her pen. Each day, as I simmer and then boil over as I read one of Trump's idiotic tweets, I await her next piece about the president, dissecting his persona bit by bit, revealing to us a flawed and deranged man. No one does it better.
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Some folks enjoy Trump's rude and puerile tweets, for others they are actions of a jerk. As long as his thumbs are tweeting they are off more dangerous button he could press. So let him tweet and ignore his low-minded comments. America is better than Trump.
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Marine Dowd - Never has there been a media that has mistreated and lied about someone out of hate for that individual and that individual's supporters. This individual has fought back and the media does not know how to deal with it. So yes, when it comes to the medias unprecedented behavior " these are all matters that should alarm men and women equally"
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I wouldn't say cruel. The insults seem too juvenile to be cruel to adults. What's the word I would choose for his behavior? Oh yeah. Deplorable.
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Everything Midas touches turns to
mould.
mould.
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How ridiculous. The morning Joe team made nasty attacks against Trump for months. Trump finally hit them back one time, and the media jumps on Trump.
So typical, so pathetic.
So typical, so pathetic.
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Trump embodies all the worst traits of Americans...shallow, thin skinned, obsessed with outside appearances and totally disregarding character. What is worse? The fact that those Americans who do embody the best of us...unity, social consciousness, integrity - stayed home or didn't believe we would have a buffoon in chief. Well, wake up! This is what happens when you try to ignore reality. The reality is, the Trump supporters were angry because they have felt unheard - we need to listen and try to understand and find reasonable solutions. We also need to stop thinking about Dems and Repubs and remember we are all AMERICANS and if we cannot work together, we will surely fall apart.
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One picture says a thousand words. The president's photo at the top of your column shows the soul of this man--very scary for all of us.
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This column has made me realize something. We've been accustomed to say things like "well, all politicians are rotten", or "character doesn't really matter in elected officials - they all stink." And now we get to learn how wrong we were, and how much character actually does matter.
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They don't have an elastic relationship with the truth. They can't even find the definition in a dictionary. They claim truth is what they want it to be at any given moment. Alice has fallen into the rabbit hole. Leave her there. And fill it in. Quickly. By the way, what is the half-life of Trump's type of radiation? How long till we can emerge safely and breathe rationality freely again?
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This guy is not right in the head. During the campaign, we could at least cling to the hope that his outlandish behavior was part of an act. It wasn't. It was who he is. And the presidency has made him immeasurably worse. We are getting to the point of needing a 25th Amendment solution. But for that, we would need Republicans to act in the national interest. And it's been so long since they did anything resembling that, I doubt if they even remember how.
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While Maureen did "nail" 45 in this article. Lest we forget how often she "nailed" his opponent during the election, which I am sure was very helpful to the cause. Thanks.
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Thanks for another brilliant column.
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Why why would you give him the benefit of the doubt when he used the blood coming out of wherever comment? He doesn't deserve it.
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Trump's continuing attack on the media may well represent a strategy designed to counter the investigations by Mueller and Congress into possible collusion and/or illegal business dealing by Trump and/or his associates.
If the investigations determine there was collusion or illegal business dealings, Trump will respond with "Fake News." He may simply be conditioning his supporters to disbelieve any negative reports emanating from the investigations. This strategy will likely fail as it will be Trump's word against the word and evidence of the highly respected former F.B.I. director.
If the investigations determine there was collusion or illegal business dealings, Trump will respond with "Fake News." He may simply be conditioning his supporters to disbelieve any negative reports emanating from the investigations. This strategy will likely fail as it will be Trump's word against the word and evidence of the highly respected former F.B.I. director.
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So. You call the president a pig. You are allowed to say whatever coarse thing you like. And he is supposed to cringe and take it. I personally am glad that he comes right back at you people.
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He is supposed to have some dignity. A concept totally lacking in his make-up. An embarrassment as a human being, a threat to this country as a leader. If he can't take the heat he should get out of the kitchen!
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What's the qualitative difference between a commentator calling out this President's behaviour as piggish -- it surely is -- and Trump's "calling out" the previous President as not actually American? Trump is unafraid to invoke the worst inclinations of humanity to further his agenda. His behaviour then, as now, is corrosive to any semblance of civil discourse.
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Yeah, he is supposed to take it. That's what the President of the largest democracy in the world is supposed to do. Instead, he acts like a immature kid in an elementary school playground! What part of "President of the United States" do you not understand?
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I disaree. You CAN be sure what will come out of this White House.
Cruelty, bullying, lies, hate, misogyny, anti people of color, selfishness, violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution and a president who is on the side of the Russians.
We can expect hiding, distraction, picking fights, more "fake new" declarations.
We have an evil, sick, malicious, confused, crazy person as President. Well, American you bought him, you own him.
So what are you going to do about it?
Cruelty, bullying, lies, hate, misogyny, anti people of color, selfishness, violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution and a president who is on the side of the Russians.
We can expect hiding, distraction, picking fights, more "fake new" declarations.
We have an evil, sick, malicious, confused, crazy person as President. Well, American you bought him, you own him.
So what are you going to do about it?
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If anybody was deserving of a comeuppance, it was these two, Joe and Mika. They act like the cool clique in High School, making fun of the geeks who get stuff done.
The real problem here is that the Media is used to Republican presidents being doormats and Donald Trump fights back and you guys don't know how to handle that.
You all gave Obama a free pass and Bill Clinton, the Rapist, one too.
Get used to your new normal.
The real problem here is that the Media is used to Republican presidents being doormats and Donald Trump fights back and you guys don't know how to handle that.
You all gave Obama a free pass and Bill Clinton, the Rapist, one too.
Get used to your new normal.
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No one, and I mean no one, has responded more crudely and viscerally to media criticism than #45. It's not pushing back, it's getting down in the mud. Other presidents have let the criticism slide in public in order to focus on policy. This one's knee-jerk response to criticism invites more. He behaves like a Twitter troll. Can you get your guy to rise above? I didn't think so.
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Our president is a pig, and every other pejorative adjective I think of. His base applauds him, his party tries to explain/exonerate (party trumps patriotism). This man exemplifies the country. It's made up of the greedy, with the greediest at the helm, and of the congress of the wealthy, to be made wealthier by their corporate handlers, and the utter dismissal of the poor, because the rich made it so why can't anyone else? But, there's those poor White men, struggling to understand their inability to move beyond their plight, and let's not demean their plight. Corporations have spit them out and are churning them up for fodder. They can't find whom to blame, so the man that pities them, gets their vote, even if they vote against their own interests. It's an uneducated mass now that treats science like fiction and Jesus like fact. And, let's back all that anger up with our own guns, artillery-type weapons, maybe. This is our country, framed by those great White, Anglo-Saxon men, giving Blacks the status of 3/5 of a human. We've been brought low by every Mexican south of the border and in this country. Let out the anger....and who better to do it than a rich tycoon, surrounding himself with other rich men, helping that little guy who just lost his job. Wait, wait, somethings wrong, medical coverage goes, environment goes, taxes to the rich???? Yeah, but he still tells them off. He's a real man. No, more like a dreadful stupid behemoth, destroying us,
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He's not at all like a pig, sexist or otherwise. He's like a stunted human. In fact, he IS a stunted human, an emotionally, intellectually, morally stunted person.
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This heap of hate is just his idea of distracting us from an inconvenient truth. Republican operatives were contacting Russian hackers to access stolen documents to hurt Clinton.
Silly Rabbits. If Hillary's server was hacked, so was Rebekah Brooks. Anna's brother covered Brook's missing personal/work server. You will never see Hillary's deleted emails or Rebekah's entirely, so we will never know what was in the email Cameron sent her BlackBerry that GCHQ compressed into a Tempora file while in their custody.
OFCOM found FOX fit to paper the sky with populist twit? It's the Bully Baron's century?
Silly Rabbits. If Hillary's server was hacked, so was Rebekah Brooks. Anna's brother covered Brook's missing personal/work server. You will never see Hillary's deleted emails or Rebekah's entirely, so we will never know what was in the email Cameron sent her BlackBerry that GCHQ compressed into a Tempora file while in their custody.
OFCOM found FOX fit to paper the sky with populist twit? It's the Bully Baron's century?
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DT continues to orchestrate the necessary distractions against an overwhelmingly slanted MSM. Whilst the Ms Dowds of the media grow more apoplectic over his unique theatre, he is weaving his fabric of change and swamp draining. He is the master of the no-look pass, and you are are falling for it. He will never be impeached, so all of this energy is laughable. And the more petulant the NYTs and its opinionists become, the more votes from working class Americans Mr DT gets. Please keep this up: it is the gift that keeps on giving.
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"Trump blasted his way up in the 2016 campaign by mocking his opponents’ looks — male and female."
Gee, in a column like this I would have expected Maureen Dowd to highlight Trump's comment about Hillary Clinton being a "nasty woman" above the level of the generic. Hillary gets mentioned only with respect to Trump's "weird" remark about Hillary's bathroom break.
"Weird"?
Yes it is a bit weird that this is the way Dowd chooses to express it.
Anyway, let the record show that even in this column Dowd could not bring herself to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton.
Sad.
Gee, in a column like this I would have expected Maureen Dowd to highlight Trump's comment about Hillary Clinton being a "nasty woman" above the level of the generic. Hillary gets mentioned only with respect to Trump's "weird" remark about Hillary's bathroom break.
"Weird"?
Yes it is a bit weird that this is the way Dowd chooses to express it.
Anyway, let the record show that even in this column Dowd could not bring herself to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton.
Sad.
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Maybe someday, Ms. Dowd, you will mature into a feminist. You "gave Trump the benefit of the doubt"? No, you were soft on him all during the campaign. You address the present situation by bringing up his hurtful words for men? False equivalency there. Your current criticisms still fail to reckon with the enormity of the damage this monster's hatred of women causes. I hope you can recognize him for who he is and always was, and that you will someday tell us about your awakening. And sorry, he has never bragged he wants to grab a man by the genitals. You really need to bone up on the definition of misogyny. It is a special word for an awful reality. Oh, and maybe could you please never use the expression "wife -beater" ever again. Stop. Reread.
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I wish people would stop calling this selfish brat-child President. He many have stolen, been anointed, or gifted the title but there has never been anyone less Presidential in the US.
In a nutshell that is the problem with this creep. He's been given everything and never earned a single thing.
In a nutshell that is the problem with this creep. He's been given everything and never earned a single thing.
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He called Comey crazy, too, to the same men who gifted him this presidency with targeted fake news streams.
Has it dawned on anyone the reason he's behaving like a side show freak is because news ofTs colluding with Russian hackers has come to light? He's trying to cover his pile with a heap of hurtful hate on the media for just doing their jobs.
His gif of himself pummeling CNN is insane. He needs to be banned.
Has it dawned on anyone the reason he's behaving like a side show freak is because news ofTs colluding with Russian hackers has come to light? He's trying to cover his pile with a heap of hurtful hate on the media for just doing their jobs.
His gif of himself pummeling CNN is insane. He needs to be banned.
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Insightful column, BUT: Am I the only one who cringed at Maureen's use of "wife beater" in place of "tank dress" or some other descriptor for what Anna Wintour was wearing? The expression "wife beater," to describe trivializes the reality of domestic violence. Would any NYT columnist ever employ the term, "rapist" to describe a chic article of clothing?
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Yes his comments are "vile," "viscous," and "cruel." While accurate, these characterizations also attribute them too much power. They obscure that they're simply dumb. They show no wit, no cleverness. They perform a stunted, sclerotic intellect.
William Safire, you are missed.
William Safire, you are missed.
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Poor media libs can't handle it when a Republican fights back. Meanwhile, Republicans keep winning, all across our nation. Enjoy.
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"Trump has always been obsessed with looks — his own, men’s and women’s." Really? If that is correct, then why does he look like a fat slob in baggy ill-fitting suits with cheapo 1980s era ties and the world's worst dyed comb-over? How he really looks is how he really acts - like a degenerate bum.
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As my Mississippi wife says: "trump is a couple of pickles short of a full jar"
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Elastic relationship with the truth???? Have you tracked the veracity of Obama's, Rices' and Hillary's statements for the past 8 years?
People wonder why the "fake news" meme has become more prevalent. Perhaps is because of examples like this article.
People wonder why the "fake news" meme has become more prevalent. Perhaps is because of examples like this article.
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"Anna Wintour in a white wife-beater on the cover of New York magazine."
Can we all please stop using that term? It risks normalizing spousal abuse and it conjures up tired ethnic stereotypes.
C'mon, Ms Dowd, you're better than this.
What's wrong with calling it a "tank top"?
Can we all please stop using that term? It risks normalizing spousal abuse and it conjures up tired ethnic stereotypes.
C'mon, Ms Dowd, you're better than this.
What's wrong with calling it a "tank top"?
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Keep on Tweeting, President Trump. We are laughing at Fake News NYT, WaPo, etc. We Love it.
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So Trump's a germaphobe, huh? Guess that explains his obsession with leakers.
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We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond
Who comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
Who comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
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This narcissist vocabulary challenged buffoon would not be there if the dems could find better, so deal!
Soupy Sales (yes, I'm quoting Soupy Sales) once said on his show, "I may be an idiot but you're watching". We know what Trump is, but most Republicans in Congress are defending or excusing him. They're more concerned with possible primary challengers than what is best for our country. Profiles in Cowardliness.
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Had Trump been in charge of a ship he'd almost certainly, like Captain Arnheiter in this NYT report from 1968, have been relieved of his duty within 99 days.
The 99 Days of Captain Arnheiter
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/11/296392712.html?...
The 99 Days of Captain Arnheiter
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/11/296392712.html?...
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Such vivid, telling little anecdotes, Maureen, especially about the bathroom stuff. You’ve sure have lasted a long time in your career as a columnist, and now you’re fulfilling your true talents better than with any president before.
Was worth it to stick to it all these decades, to have a Trump to write about.
As he gets worse, I’m sure you’ll rise to the occasion.
When does the movie come out?
Was worth it to stick to it all these decades, to have a Trump to write about.
As he gets worse, I’m sure you’ll rise to the occasion.
When does the movie come out?
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So here we go again, a 'has been' columnist calling the President of the United States a pig.
I read a column by Peggy Noobsn today.
She's got class.
You, not so much.
I read a column by Peggy Noobsn today.
She's got class.
You, not so much.
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Trump has become so repulsively grotesque that he will destroy all relationships we have with the world and leave America irreperably scarred.
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I keep saying it: there is nothing positive or good about Donald Trump. Not one single solitary thing. He has absolutely no virtue. People will say "he loves his children." I am sure that's not true either. Whatever "love" he might have for them is purely conditional and the conditions are exorbitant.
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No one is worried about President Trump, except the traitors.
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But her emails!
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Trump doesn't have the benefit of a MSM that functions as the Praetorian Guard protecting Caesar, as they did for Obama. Ready to defend him against any slight or criticism with howls and screams of Racism!
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Yeah, he does. It's called Fox and Drudge and Breitbart and Hannity and Limbaugh
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"I gave Trump the benefit of the doubt after his comment on Megyn Kelly about “blood coming out of her wherever” when he claimed he meant her nose. "
Difficult to believe that you'd be that naive, Maureen.
Difficult to believe that you'd be that naive, Maureen.
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President won the election fair and square and the liberal media has thrown a temper tantrum ever since. You don't deserve respect because you fail to give it. You still berate President Trump and his supporters at every opportunity. All the talk of unity before the election was arrogant and smug. You still act that way to this day. Here is a newsflash; You lost. Shake hands, congratulate the other other party and try again. This time without the tantrums and hate.
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Maureen Down gives Trump "the benefit of the doubt" over his grotesque description of Megan Kelly, that there was "blood coming out of her wherever." Where is the room for doubt in a comment like that?
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Well said...Good job Maureen!
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I shudder when I contemplate another 3 1/2 years under this president. He is an ignorant, vulgar bully who sullies the office with his every utterance and tweet. Ms. Down nailed it -- Trump is cruel and grossly abnormal. His only saving grace to date is his utter incompetence.
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Make that 7 1/2
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The President should be checked for chronic neurological Lyme disease.
Do these symptoms ring a bell?
Rapid mood swings, episodes of rage, crying, reduced impulse control
Depression
Suicidal thoughts and behavior
Anxiety/Panic attacks
Mood swings that may mimic bipolar disorder (manic-depression)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Sleep Disorders
An Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD)-like syndrome
Autism-like syndrome
Delirium
A progressive dementia
Do these symptoms ring a bell?
Rapid mood swings, episodes of rage, crying, reduced impulse control
Depression
Suicidal thoughts and behavior
Anxiety/Panic attacks
Mood swings that may mimic bipolar disorder (manic-depression)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Sleep Disorders
An Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD)-like syndrome
Autism-like syndrome
Delirium
A progressive dementia
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You, "...gave him the benefit of the doubt after his comment ab out Megan Kelly...." Wow, a telling admission concerning your ambivalence towards this horrid individual. The whole column was lost on that sentence.
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". . . you can never be sure of anything that comes out of this White House." Yes, you can. You can be sure that every syllable is a lie and as ugly a falsehood as possible.
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Don't insult pigs. They are intelligent, dignified creatures who drew the short straw as a species. It's not their fault people like to eat them.
You don't need an animal tag for this bumptious bloviator. He is truly and quintessentially a male human. He's an old, entitled, emotionally stunted, narcissistic white guy who has no filters, and through a weird twist of fate he ended up in this powerful position for which he is ill suited. But his vile misogyny is not unusual among men. I see evidence of it every day, in news stories, in films, in popular music, in advertising.
You don't need an animal tag for this bumptious bloviator. He is truly and quintessentially a male human. He's an old, entitled, emotionally stunted, narcissistic white guy who has no filters, and through a weird twist of fate he ended up in this powerful position for which he is ill suited. But his vile misogyny is not unusual among men. I see evidence of it every day, in news stories, in films, in popular music, in advertising.
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...it is so much fun to watch the crazy from up here, you Yanks have no idea just how utterly and comically embarrassing for America is to the watch this angry orange man-child stamp his feet and scream like a 3 year old...
Shouldn't he be fixing health care, or working on NATO, or helping homeless vets or tax reform instead of watching television 5-6 hours a day?
Too funny...
Shouldn't he be fixing health care, or working on NATO, or helping homeless vets or tax reform instead of watching television 5-6 hours a day?
Too funny...
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Thanks Maureen for dissing Hillary at ever turn during the election. Just admit that you deserve a Trump presidency!
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Alpha males don't score well with the New York cocktail set.
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The wine and cheese set.
So, what to do?
Starve him of attention, his oxygen.
Vote for his opponents.
Starve him of attention, his oxygen.
Vote for his opponents.
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Vote every republican out of all political offices!
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he is a vicious weak thin skinned liar incompetent and bully
no one worked harder to put him in the White HOuse than
La Dowd. You own this. And that's the name of that tune.
The beauty part is Trump has no idea how much trouble he is in
He knows Flynn and Manafort are going to rat him out.
And when he meets Putin, Vlad will simply say "you're welcome.'
His courtiers, the fluffers an GOP in Congress despite him but
they hate the commoners more. They are the Cavalcade
of Cruelty. They really do not care if people die.
And of course, if dead they cannot vote.
no one worked harder to put him in the White HOuse than
La Dowd. You own this. And that's the name of that tune.
The beauty part is Trump has no idea how much trouble he is in
He knows Flynn and Manafort are going to rat him out.
And when he meets Putin, Vlad will simply say "you're welcome.'
His courtiers, the fluffers an GOP in Congress despite him but
they hate the commoners more. They are the Cavalcade
of Cruelty. They really do not care if people die.
And of course, if dead they cannot vote.
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I tried several times to find anguish and disgust re issues as well the issue you now want to make of his personality. But to no avail. Yet now you come on with the sensitivities to the bearer of First Office's deep, repeated, offensive and, as you've now noted, patterned,comments and leanings. You're too late by far: you helped elect the psycho.
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It appears that Mika can say anything she likes but Trump can't respond in kind. Those days are over Maureen. You lock horns with him don't be surprised or shocked when you get gored.
2
I'm much happier that Trump stood up to Brzezinski and Morning Joe in lieu of just letting them talk trash about him.
Better Trump than the previous CHUMP
Better Trump than the previous CHUMP
1
I think an apology to pigs is in order.
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Can you imagine another presidential campaign with him? Nightmare! In live. God help America . Enough
2
"elastic relationship with the truth". He/they are liars. Stop cleansing what is a despicable man.
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"I gave Trump the benefit of the doubt after his comment on Megyn Kelly about “blood coming out of her wherever” when he claimed he meant her nose."
Wow! Can that statement be true? Ms.Dowd how could you have been so blind?
Wow! Can that statement be true? Ms.Dowd how could you have been so blind?
6
Thing is Maureen, who is Trump's ear whisperer? Who behind Trump, wants you and the media to write exactly columns like this? Unless he is schizophrenic, someone else is the master behind Trump's moves, his image, his publicity...(Steve Bannon? That powerful?)
2
Trump hits back. Get used to it.
1
Leftist bullies in the media aren't comfortable with their targets fighting back. Keep counterpunching, President Trump. Don't take any guff.
2
Are you saying that he is not your typical politician? Then why don't you just say so. No need for the hate speech.
By the way, your ilk is working on making this kind of speech punishable by statute. So get it off your chest now.
By the way, your ilk is working on making this kind of speech punishable by statute. So get it off your chest now.
1
This sad, disturbing individual reads father/daughter incest all over him.
No doubt one of several reasons why he has had 'no disclosure' agreements in his divorce settlements.
No doubt one of several reasons why he has had 'no disclosure' agreements in his divorce settlements.
1
Ignorance in either its intellectual or moral form is not now hidden but openly celebrated by his supporters. Sadly, this problem is not confined to the US.
9
But Maureen, you helped get him elected.
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YES!!! Maureen and the media were arrogant and ignorant of what was really happening out there in the real world. I think Maureen and the media never believed Trump would be President, so they did not care how irresponsibly they reported on Hillary.
3
I like Ms. Dowd's writing, but I have never heard a nastier comment about a pig. What did a pig ever do to you to warrant comparison with The Donald. He is in a classless of his own.
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Please keep in mind, Dowd is considered a commentator / editorialist not a news person. This article is her "feelings" about Trump. Let me know when Dowd comes up with FACTS and speculation or assumptions about the man this POTUS.
1
But a lot of what he says is indeed cruel. He's mean immature and quite pathetic. She's right!
1
Which one of the quotes and descriptions did Maureen Dowd get wrong, please?
The ad hominem attack is the last refuge of the incompetent. To my knowledge, Mr. Trump, thus far, has only responded to them. And the media, collectively, is?
Maureen writes of societal norms... What are the societal norms? And do any of them apply to the press? When in history has any President been treated so badly from the moment the election concluded? Trump was so magnanimous in victory. He was so gracious when he met with Obama. And yet, from the moment he was elected, you hated him. You hated him with a Nazi's vigor. All we've seen from your paper is hate. And in doing so you trample on the souls of those of us who have decent dreams. We simply want to make a good living, in our own country and you try to shame us for such.
I saw the remarks Mika and Joe made. I see their remarks. ALL. THE. TIME. And they're horrible. They should be far more ashamed than Trump. They're the ones who broke societal norms
As someone who's watching this constant, unending assault on Trump and the response of the press when he fights back. I'm reminded of the bully who gets stood up to and cries like a baby when it happens. You say the bully is Donald Trump, but I don't see it that way. You say that Donald Trump started it all, but I don't see it that way. I watched Hillary insult him and then stand in shock when he reached out and insulted her back. The Times insults first and continuously and then you cry like a bunch of babies when he reacts. Frankly, with all due respect, you're the pigs and welcome to your sty.
I saw the remarks Mika and Joe made. I see their remarks. ALL. THE. TIME. And they're horrible. They should be far more ashamed than Trump. They're the ones who broke societal norms
As someone who's watching this constant, unending assault on Trump and the response of the press when he fights back. I'm reminded of the bully who gets stood up to and cries like a baby when it happens. You say the bully is Donald Trump, but I don't see it that way. You say that Donald Trump started it all, but I don't see it that way. I watched Hillary insult him and then stand in shock when he reached out and insulted her back. The Times insults first and continuously and then you cry like a bunch of babies when he reacts. Frankly, with all due respect, you're the pigs and welcome to your sty.
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Arthur: You must be talking about another Donald Trump. You know, the victim.
1
And what about President Barrack Obamas treatment by the Alt Right Press???
Birther Conspiracy lies anyone? Started by Trump. Theres nothing more to say.
Birther Conspiracy lies anyone? Started by Trump. Theres nothing more to say.
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Well said.
1
I guess you don't like President Trump Maureen! But your article sounded more like a rebuke of the media!
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Trump doesn't like women, especially his first wife. . .
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497799354/a-list-of-donald-trumps-accusers...
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497799354/a-list-of-donald-trumps-accusers...
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All of my homosexual friends support Trump. They understand that he is good for them. He will keep us safe and protect us. Liberalism is going out of fashion because a lot of homosexuals are turning against it.
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That's funny!
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That doesn't make sense.
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You insult Page Six reporters.
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bout time you finally went all in Modo
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Trump needs to be tested for dementia.
That would explain so much...
That would explain so much...
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Trump is truly the Psychopath in Chief. He must be removed from office as he is a greater menace to us than our own enemies. Congress must find a way to remove him.
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He is not a psychopath, he is a sociopath. There is a big difference between the 2 disorders.
We can expect to see nude mud wresting on the White House lawn any day now.
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Crazy? Psycho? A nut job?
I don't know if any of those the so-called president attacks has any of those traits. But, here is what is said: It takes one to know one.
And please, he infamously and viciously, not "famously and viciously" mocked the Times reporter.
I don't know if any of those the so-called president attacks has any of those traits. But, here is what is said: It takes one to know one.
And please, he infamously and viciously, not "famously and viciously" mocked the Times reporter.
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Hillary captured his essence nicely when she characterized him as a man who hangs around beauty contests. To which she might legitimately have added “while looking like the picture of Dorian Gray.”
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I'm still stunned that he "lay in wait" outside dressing rooms until he knew the girls were in a state of undress - some as young as 15, and people voted for this licentious pervert! So sad.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/timeline-of-trumps-creepin...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/timeline-of-trumps-creepin...
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He only wanted to win the contest. But for him, the prize was no prize at all. He wanted to win, not work.
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Rehash. The grifter in chief needs no more analysis of his dark and pathological views, or anecdotes about the past. Let's deal with today. The man is unfit, incompetent, and 66% of the country needs relief, while the whole country needs a positive vision forward, an infrastructure plan for jobs and safety of bridges and roads, mass transportation, and a bath after this. The 25th amendment is waiting.
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Rogaine comes in bottles. Important detail.
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I know it's not a practical idea but I wish there could be a 24-hour (or longer) media moratorium on Trump where every part of what Trump calls the MSM refuses to mention his name or show his picture. If necessary to refer to something affecting or affected by the White House, just say "the president (lower case P)." My only fear is that being ignored would cause him to do something dangerously irrational. His tweets tonight (Saturday) are more unhinged than ever and he seems like an enraged animal in a cage. How on earth are we going to survive with this lunatic as president? He is truly scaring me now.
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Now that's a face only a mother could love.
"Well... now that you've brought my mother into it..."
"Well... now that you've brought my mother into it..."
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So this list is Maureen Dowd's idea of an argument against the notion that Trump's vicious attacks on women focusing on lies about their appearance, and bleeding, is not sexist? Maybe Dowd's argumentation about what is or isn't sexism in politics would be more finely tuned if she were more aware of her own inelastic misogyny against Hillary Clinton that was so outlandish as to be offensive to thousands of her readers.
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It's more then evident Liberal Democrat Extremists are not going to learn until they've lost election, after election, after election.
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You flatter the minority president Trump when you call him "cruel". That is what he aspires to and he has apparently reached that goal.
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The media has a free pass to brutally character assassinate anyone they please and they do it like a pack of wolves. Now listen to them cringe and whine when someone fights back. Finally a President that gives as good as he gets. Real journalism is dead in this country.
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How are these attacks getting work done? He spends so mich time tweeting and attacking. Obama never responded because he is an adult.
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If Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsay Graham agree with this, please senators, do something about it before it is too late. Thank you both, gentlemen.
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I'm sorry, but Trump triggering liberals and the MSM is great fun to watch. Behind the scenes he's doing good things.
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What great things? Like his wars on clean air and water and healthcare and freedom of the press?
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What great things? Taking away health care? Eliminating enncironmental health and safety regulations? The Republican agenda is taking us back to the industrial revolution when workers were seen as disposable.
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There is nothing new here by Ms. Dowd in her observations of trump. I can only wonder what in the world it will take to pierce the bubble of the House and Senate Republicans before they wake up to the fact that they have purposely tied their job security to a clinically unstable man-child. (I bet they already know it; they're hoping that their constituents do not.) This shell game is not going to last forever, guys. Cut the ties, and be "heroes"! We'll then pretend along with you, giving you the accolades you crave, if that is what it will take to save our nation.
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You want to know what cruel is, Maureen? Cruel is the millions of people who lost their health care insurance because of Obamacare and had to pay a ton more for less coverage and a deductible so high they can't afford to use it. Now that is cruel.
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Maureen hit it out of the park with "Trump mistakes cruelty for strength." Meanness, cruelty, and an affinity for the disgusting (blood everywhere when women are involved, including Hillary on some Enquirer cover pages). Will a third of the country continue to embrace this low level of humanity? Sadly, it appears so. What does this say about being an American?
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Yes, Maureen, you're dealing with a very "cruella" man. But, as Mika Brzezinski realized, it is he that is "crazy" and is a "psycho" or in more P.C. (as in Psychiatrically Correct) terms, he is mentally ill suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). [Disclosure: I'm a psychologist.] Lack of empathy or cruelty is one of its major traits along with grandiosity--the need for everything he does to be the biggest or the best whether be the size of his inauguration crowd to the chocolate cake he served the Chinese Prime Minister. He must also have the adoration of others, and it seems especially beautiful or very attractive women like Ms. Brzezinski. Rejection is absolutely intolerable and results in a furious attack; and for women it is literally and symbolically a blood-letting assault. Until we recognize that the President has NPD and must be removed under the 25th amendment, we will continually see such outburts that go well beyond tweets, as in his demand for a "repeal" of Obamacare, that threatens the safety and well-being of millions.
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Sure, he is cruel to everyone who threatens him. But he is especially threatened by women, and he is especially cruel to them.
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The only thing he has to offer is cruelty. He's too stupid to be able to offer anything else. Just an easily triggered fat, dumb, aggrieved snowflake so angry and uninformed that he lashes out with monosyllabic jabs. And then to top it off, after setting a stage and ground rules in which only the dumbest, ugliest and crudest words and sentiments are flung at anyone who doesn't stroke his bloated orange pate, he and his amoral minions audaciously invoke a galling justification that he is retaliating by hitting back harder. This is the very definition of chutzpah - like the person who kills his parents and impertinently uses the defense of being a poor orphan.
There are a multitude of reasons to mock cable news and the celebrities who pose as pundits and anchors - not least of all because they are responsible for turning politics and policy-making into pro-wrestling, allowing a heel to gain the seat of the presidency. But this dum dum doesn't have the verbal acumen or insight to make this argument. And like any preteen whose low I.Q. prevents him from slicing his opponent's position with verbal barbs, he vomits up ad hominem attacks. And his doltish, powerless fans absolutely love it.
There are a multitude of reasons to mock cable news and the celebrities who pose as pundits and anchors - not least of all because they are responsible for turning politics and policy-making into pro-wrestling, allowing a heel to gain the seat of the presidency. But this dum dum doesn't have the verbal acumen or insight to make this argument. And like any preteen whose low I.Q. prevents him from slicing his opponent's position with verbal barbs, he vomits up ad hominem attacks. And his doltish, powerless fans absolutely love it.
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Yeah he's cruel, crass, demeaning & mean.
Problem for the world is it worked on the ugly Americans like a charm. Which is lucky for Trump since that's is all he's got.
Unless he hits rock-bottom & actually blows it so badly not even Huckabee can defend him, Trump's tirade is the new normal in world political behavior.
Problem for the world is it worked on the ugly Americans like a charm. Which is lucky for Trump since that's is all he's got.
Unless he hits rock-bottom & actually blows it so badly not even Huckabee can defend him, Trump's tirade is the new normal in world political behavior.
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The guy is a caricature of the alt-right. Guns, god, fear of foreigners, and made-for-TV-lies about healthcare, budgets and power. Has anyone noticed that this has been the Republican party of Fox for the past 20 years? The whole thing was waiting for a Cruella-in-chief and here we have the most radical form of red state nonsense. I do believe that it is just a matter of time until our media, investigations, and rational public figure out that we have elected the head of a crime family and break this mess apart.
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Bravo, Maureen. No need for the formal analysis, he is only a terrible example of a sentient human. Most of his base are, like him, without knowledge.
Hosea 4:6: my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge
Hosea 4:6: my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge
Obsessed with his own looks??? Then why on earth does he look the way he does? I thought he cluelessly out of touch and gleefully unconcerned with his looks. He needs to strong arm himself some better yes-men stylists.
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Trump can't stop talking about himself. All he does is project himself on to various targets, throwing out on to other people the shadow parts of his personality which he has never been able to recognize as his own but which haunt him. So when he calls Mika "crazy" that's a good description of a 71-year old who goes on Twitter rants. When he calls her "dumb as a rock" that describes a president who doesn't understand the content of the health care bill his party is trying to pass in the Senate and who can't spell basic words or read documents. And when he called Hillary the most corrupt politician of all time, that was accurate for the scam artist who gave America Trump University and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars from oligarchs and mafiosi close to Putin. "Psycho" is what he called Joe Scarborough. But Trump has always shown symptoms of anti-social personality disorder with his bullying, sadism, inability to control his impulses, absence of shame, decency, and remorse. In the White House, the strain on this mentally and emotionally challenged man will only grow as he keeps faking a role for which he has no personality, temperament, or preparation.
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One of the very few good things about Donald Trump being President is that it has gotten Maureen back in her groove and writing more frequently. Hooray!!
Maureen, you should take some of the credit for his winning the election. I mean, he's not as bad as HRC, right? Except of course on those pesky "policy" and "running the government" things.
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Yep, and as the poster at the Women's March in Washington put it so very aptly, "Grab Him by His Tax Returns."
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I believe credit goes to Graydon Carter for first tagging Trump with the best single-word description which encompasses virtually all the character defects of this small, odious, vindictive, provincial, mean-spirited and profoundly ignorant excuse for a human being:
"VULGARIAN".
"VULGARIAN".
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Some people make thoughtless cruel comments because they don't know better. Trump knows exactly what he is doing. Despicable.
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Trump is clearly exposing what a joke it is to be the so-called "President of the Unitied States"! Clearly any baffoon can hold this position and be the most powerful man in the world. What a joke.
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By the implicit values and standards of Trump, Obama should have had him indicted for leading the birther movement and for all the other false statements intentionally conspired. Has there ever been a greater scale of hypocrisy....and we know that in Washington, D.C. hyprocrisy is like breathing.
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One of the easiest things to point out about Trump, along with his narcissism and ignorance, is his cruelty, because he does nothing to hide it. And yet, it was religious people who put him over the top in many states. How big does the log in someone's eye have to be for them not to see the evil in this man's very being? God save us from the Christians.
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Ms. Dowd you write "it resonates more with women because of Trump’s history of sexist remarks," and then say he is just a pig, not sexist pig. While you may feel you are splitting a very fine bristle there I don't see how you can have it both ways.
I would suggest looking at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-ev... and rethinking whether he is just a pig and not a sexist big. Just because you are mean to men doesn't mean you aren't sexist toward women. I've seen his ilk for too often.
I would suggest looking at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-ev... and rethinking whether he is just a pig and not a sexist big. Just because you are mean to men doesn't mean you aren't sexist toward women. I've seen his ilk for too often.
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To my American friends and my cousins in California: I feel for you. But we non-Americans are hurting too. Overall, we love America … but not this one.
https://julietinparis.net/
https://julietinparis.net/
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Trump is the kind of mean that sits atop an absolute lack of self-esteem. Every nasty comment shows just how raw and insecure he really is. If I didn't despise him so much, I'd feel pity for him.
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Fascism was first defined in the 1895 book THE RULING CLASS by the Italian political scientist Gaetano Mosca. Donald Trump represents an amateur American analog to Putin's clandestine rise (from complete obscurity under Yeltzin): both becoming fascist leaders (representing the elite and arms industry) of a one party rule war states; both harnessing corrupt one party-rule politics, enriching military contractors and their friends.
I'm a Wyoming Republican. I know Dick Cheney well enough to be scared of his daughter's potential to be Trump's running mate in 2020 (or worse in 2024). I know the militaristic dysfunction of the American global military empire first-hand: I was protected from a KGB tasking order in 1988-89 by the CI6 joint task force (CIA, FBI).
I know that America is on the verge of being a bankrupted, collapsing global military empire. Trump is in place to cause as much volatility as possible to enable the complete "us and them" polarization of a nation which no longer has any sense of a middle ground.
I'm a Wyoming Republican. I know Dick Cheney well enough to be scared of his daughter's potential to be Trump's running mate in 2020 (or worse in 2024). I know the militaristic dysfunction of the American global military empire first-hand: I was protected from a KGB tasking order in 1988-89 by the CI6 joint task force (CIA, FBI).
I know that America is on the verge of being a bankrupted, collapsing global military empire. Trump is in place to cause as much volatility as possible to enable the complete "us and them" polarization of a nation which no longer has any sense of a middle ground.
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"You give them a taste of their own medicine, then they tell everyone you poisoned them".
k.m (via wnq-writers).
Not Cruella Mo, more like Rhoda in "The Bad Seed" who's callous use of others to serve her own end echos Trump's own actions. Destroying his detractors while shifting blame to victims without remorse.
k.m (via wnq-writers).
Not Cruella Mo, more like Rhoda in "The Bad Seed" who's callous use of others to serve her own end echos Trump's own actions. Destroying his detractors while shifting blame to victims without remorse.
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Sadly, America's now stuck indefinitely with the audacity of Trump's vicious, mean-spirited, out-pf-control cruelty vs. the Obama's audacity of hope.
So many who voted for Trump are living in or near poverty, and now they're stuck with watching him pull the rug out from under their healthcare programs.
And the GOP is marching in lockstep with this monster!!!
So many who voted for Trump are living in or near poverty, and now they're stuck with watching him pull the rug out from under their healthcare programs.
And the GOP is marching in lockstep with this monster!!!
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Then there's his wife, whose cause as First "Lady" is supposed to be anti-cyber-bullying, who defended her small handed husband who needs to punch back 10 times harder (small hands you know), and his daughter, whose cause as First Daughter is supposed to be woman empowerment, who remained conspicuously silent even as her own brother tweeted in defence of the alpha pig of the family.
Trump is Trump because he is surrounded by people dependent on him for everything they got: wife, daughter, sons.
Trump is Trump because he is surrounded by people dependent on him for everything they got: wife, daughter, sons.
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This is a great column, Ms. Dowd. My only objection is the reference to Trump as a sexist pig. That does a terrible injustice to the pig, a noble animal.
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Yup, it's a tough world. Just get the job done, Donald, and we'll give you 4 more years.
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He needs to be removed from office, for the good of the nation. We are facing very very serious issues with healthcare, global warming, warring parts of the world and general instability.
Remove him.
Remove him.
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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." Eric Hoffer"
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please. leave innocent livestock out of the discussion. pigs are smart and many make great pets. the man in the oval office is a vulgarian with mental and emotional illness. he is dangerous. none of those characteristics are shared by the average pig.
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You cant ignore 60 plus million of us.
If we keep winning, it will be 100 million plus in 2020
If we keep winning, it will be 100 million plus in 2020
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What? Are you going to have your children voting? If memory serves me right , he won , not overwhelmingly but because of the electoral college those who voted for him came from states sparsely populated , maybe cows voted .
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Why the furor over these comments, why now? This is classic Trump, no worse (?) than usual. It will be over by tomorrow morning, when the newest jaw dropper spews out of his little twittering fingers.
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Yes, Trump's reflexive (and illiterate) cruelty can distract us from the very practical mayhem the GOP plans to inflict on us all; but even so, we cannot afford to avert our gaze completely from his putrid Twitter feed, as the few actual policy outbursts he excretes are certainly read very carefully, by both our friends and enemies, and they must be answered.
It's too late to cure this awful man, obviously, but we have to make sure the world is reminded constantly that most Americans hate, with a blinding purity, that he is President of the United States.
It's too late to cure this awful man, obviously, but we have to make sure the world is reminded constantly that most Americans hate, with a blinding purity, that he is President of the United States.
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What does it say about the Republican leaders, members, voters that they are not engaged in total rejection of Trump and all his aberrant behavior. Are they willing to tolerate psychosis in the top leadership just to have another Republican member of the Supreme Court? Republican voters and leaders are responsible for Trump and all his behavior.
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The Trump Show is a cleverly designed distraction from what the national clown is actually doing to destroy our most valued institutions. The press and television news should be reporting the effects of the devastation instead of focusing on the childish misbehaviour in the White House.
Spot on, Dowd.
DJT's cruel, thin skinned, obsessed with looks, vulgar, vain, needy, hungry for flattery, etc.
But you are preaching to the NYT choir.
The major questions are:
1. Do any of these DJT characteristics matters to voters? If anything, DJT behaved worse in the campaign - yet he was elected. And his influence has not waned. DJT may just be the president the country wants. That's democracy. Deal with it. If you don't like it, find a way to defeat it.
2. What is the potential for irreparable DJT damage to US institutions? Press freedom, judicial and intelligence department independence, freedom of expression, etc.
What an interesting, fine mess we are in.
DJT's cruel, thin skinned, obsessed with looks, vulgar, vain, needy, hungry for flattery, etc.
But you are preaching to the NYT choir.
The major questions are:
1. Do any of these DJT characteristics matters to voters? If anything, DJT behaved worse in the campaign - yet he was elected. And his influence has not waned. DJT may just be the president the country wants. That's democracy. Deal with it. If you don't like it, find a way to defeat it.
2. What is the potential for irreparable DJT damage to US institutions? Press freedom, judicial and intelligence department independence, freedom of expression, etc.
What an interesting, fine mess we are in.
That's It! Maureen Dowd got it - Donald Trump wants to live in a world that revolves around page six. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump isn't trying to set up a reality based TV show that takes place in the White House. As Trump continued to tweet about Mika's appearance and intellect, Barak Obama gave a speech in Indonesia asking the world to stand up for respect, and tolerance, and moderation. Quite frankly, the media should be giving more coverage to what he is saying - rather than continued coverage of an unstable mind.
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We all need a Day Without Trump.
Wouldn't that set him off?
Wouldn't that set him off?
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Trump deserves America and America deserves Trump. Those of us who suffer seeing the sad state our country is in under Trump and fearing for the future of our children should remember that we stood idle when Trump was campaigning. We knew who he was and what he was capable of..vulgar, insulting, misogynistic, arrogant, a real thug or a mob boss. But we stood silent, no protests, no opposition of any kind, just fearful of what was about to happen to us. We have all become accomplices in the downfall of our nation under Trump.
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Yes, its fun to talk about all the crude things trump says however I believe the things he does not say are the crudest. For example he chose not to comment on gay pride week. I am sure that hurt many Americans. I have not seen him comment on the 7 sailors who lost their life on the USS Fitzgerald while he worries about Moring Joe. VERY SAD
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When he was in New York, whatever he said and did was taken as a joke and he himself was considered a joke, and nobody cared.But now he is the President of USA.
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He's still a joke perpetrated by a rigged election , hah right back atya , just joking , just joking like he says.
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The real news, happening every second, is that an emotionally unstable child is playing with the nuclear codes.
Does anyone think that he will be able to resist that big red button in the middle of his desk?
We are, right now, counting down the seconds to Armageddon - just look at that picture and tell me what you see.
Does anyone think that he will be able to resist that big red button in the middle of his desk?
We are, right now, counting down the seconds to Armageddon - just look at that picture and tell me what you see.
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over time it is easy to see why this president of the electoral college went bankrupt running casino's. by now anyone can see his obvious tells. it is always the same cycle. being able to bait the man is easier than saying Bannon pulls the strings. he still cannot get over how terribly small his inauguration ceremony crowds were. he is pretty sure illegal voters must have blocked the roads in D C that day. he knows right where reality is. in a Federal lockup for giving away state secrets. yes he is as advertised.
i am not surprised at all. as for amusement at his predicament, not worth the attention. yes the first president in my life that has shown himself to be irrelevant as leader let alone.......
i am not surprised at all. as for amusement at his predicament, not worth the attention. yes the first president in my life that has shown himself to be irrelevant as leader let alone.......
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Again, Ms. Dowd, you ignore and waste the lofty perch you hold in American media real estate on this drivel without doing to most important work of pointing your hundreds of thousands of readers to keep their eye on what Trump and his henchhorde and the whole darn Republican Party are doing to vacuum the wallets of the lower 90% of all of us in America. Our eyes and ears and actions should be focused on McConnell, Ryan, Pence, and all the other flim-flaming phonies. We are at an existential moment. Our children's lives, not to mention grandma's future. We already know Trump is creepy.
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I love my president more and more every day.
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Trump uses outrageous statements intentionally to change the subject from, for example, the Republicans' failure to repeal Obamacare, and their cruel and asinine attempt to do so.
He has no shame or any feelings for those he hurts or for the USA he is weakening, as Putin smiles.
This means Trump will surely face a Democratic House majority in barely 16 months. His impeachment will follow promptly. His indictment will then follow his removal after his Senate trial.
Trump has run out of "credible enemies" to shift blame to. Even many in his diminishing base are beginning to realize they have been cynically conned by a corrupt charlatan.
Expect more Trump outrages, including firing Mueller. What would he have to lose with this firing? Trump knows better than anyone that it is only a matter of time before Mueller nails Trump, Flynn and the others who sold out the US for 30 pieces of silver, plus some.
Mueller has Trump's number and Trump is scared to death to pick up the phone.
My law school mentor, Archibald Cox, is smiling down for sure.
It will be ironic, but just, to see Trump in an orange jump suit that matches the color as his horrible hair!
If Trump is lucky, a Federal judge will sentence him to build his Mexican wall, and thereby keep at least one of his phony promises.
He has no shame or any feelings for those he hurts or for the USA he is weakening, as Putin smiles.
This means Trump will surely face a Democratic House majority in barely 16 months. His impeachment will follow promptly. His indictment will then follow his removal after his Senate trial.
Trump has run out of "credible enemies" to shift blame to. Even many in his diminishing base are beginning to realize they have been cynically conned by a corrupt charlatan.
Expect more Trump outrages, including firing Mueller. What would he have to lose with this firing? Trump knows better than anyone that it is only a matter of time before Mueller nails Trump, Flynn and the others who sold out the US for 30 pieces of silver, plus some.
Mueller has Trump's number and Trump is scared to death to pick up the phone.
My law school mentor, Archibald Cox, is smiling down for sure.
It will be ironic, but just, to see Trump in an orange jump suit that matches the color as his horrible hair!
If Trump is lucky, a Federal judge will sentence him to build his Mexican wall, and thereby keep at least one of his phony promises.
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This may be one of Ms. Dowd's best pieces in a very long time. That said, the only thing more depressing than reading news reports about Trump is reading Op Ed pieces about news reports about Trump. I know that some day I'll wake up, far away from here, and all of this will be...well, further away at least. I can't believe it's not even August yet. Jeez.
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Did I read this right? He actually practiced the line "blood coming out of her wherever"? Ponder that for a moment. Not only is there no depth to the man; there is no depth to which he will not sink. Whatta ya think of him now?
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Oh Maureen you can't possibly be this naïve. Men have been indulging in obnoxious piggy behavior since caveman days. There's nothing new to see here --guys have always rated women on that scale of 1 to 10 while simultaneously being nasty and patronizing. Donald Trump isn't the only guy who's guilty of acting like a pig. In New York talk show radio host Mark Simone has been using his microphone to wage his personal vendetta against Megyn Kelly. Simone has called Megyn Kelly all sorts of dreadful names and can't resist pointing out that her ratings are so bad that Sixty Minutes re-runs are doing better than her talk show. If that isn't sexist piggy behavior at its worst I don't know what is. Anyhow it's a guy thing. We women just don't understand.
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Trump is known to be a foulmouthed boor. But his misogynist attitudes are reflected in his propensity to marry Balkan adventuresses seeking refuge -- albeit evidently economical -- in the US.
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All of this is well-known, old hat. Trump supporters don't realize that he's a thin-skinned bully who can't abide the slightest criticism. You can compile all the lists you want of his boorish behavior, but they don't see it that way; they think he's a macho tough man, not understanding that what really drives him is massive insecurity. Can you imagine if Obama took umbrage every time he was attacked, like being drawn on "Obama bucks" eating watermelon and fried chicken, etc., or if Michelle responded when she was likened to a gorilla? Politicians are going to be subject to harsh comments, and the best way to handle them is to ignore them. The President of the United States should have better things to do that engage in this infantile back-and-forth, and his targets would be well-advised to cease rising to his bait, too.
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Just what does Trump do to fill out a “presidential day”?
It's pretty obvious by now that he spends his time watching cable TV--mostly Fox News--tweeting insults disgorged from the depths of his Id, signing executive orders that cannot pass legal muster, attending ceremonial functions celebrating GOP non-victories, and chatting with foreign dignitaries, many of whom are appalled by his demeanor.
Of course there is all that time he spends not filling government posts; attending re-election campaign rallies and fund raisers; getting advice from that amateur expert on all matters political, economic, and diplomatic, Mr. J. Kushner; lying to the public and distracting them from what is actually going on; consulting with lawyers about his business and investigatory problems; coaching Spicer and Huckabee on just how not to answer questions from the press; keeping his enemies list up to date; giving advice to his two sons on how to expand the family businesses; anticipating his next weekend golfing getaway; and pitting the members of his White House staff against one another.
I guess if he would just put some time aside to actually read the U.S. Constitution and reflect on its directives concerning how a president fits into our nation's political scheme of things, he would have a pretty full day after all
It's pretty obvious by now that he spends his time watching cable TV--mostly Fox News--tweeting insults disgorged from the depths of his Id, signing executive orders that cannot pass legal muster, attending ceremonial functions celebrating GOP non-victories, and chatting with foreign dignitaries, many of whom are appalled by his demeanor.
Of course there is all that time he spends not filling government posts; attending re-election campaign rallies and fund raisers; getting advice from that amateur expert on all matters political, economic, and diplomatic, Mr. J. Kushner; lying to the public and distracting them from what is actually going on; consulting with lawyers about his business and investigatory problems; coaching Spicer and Huckabee on just how not to answer questions from the press; keeping his enemies list up to date; giving advice to his two sons on how to expand the family businesses; anticipating his next weekend golfing getaway; and pitting the members of his White House staff against one another.
I guess if he would just put some time aside to actually read the U.S. Constitution and reflect on its directives concerning how a president fits into our nation's political scheme of things, he would have a pretty full day after all
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Let's not waste another breath. Let's focus on the Republican Party who is using this fool as a distraction while they dismantle the country, the world and more. He's a complete waste of time.
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You state at the beginning of your article, how unfit for this hostile environment Trump is and then you go on to list exactly how fit he really is for the hostile environment you have created. If Obama acted this way towards republicans you would have thought he was a genius.
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Trump should spend all his time in Iowa holding campaign rallyies for an event 4 years away. They would solve his ego problem and maybe protect the country from his madness. Time magazine should issue a special cover for the issues that they send to the White House each week with Donnie on the cover and he can post them on his golf club walls.
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In reading through the comments I am struck by the lack of diverse and critical thought. It operates as a gigantic echo chamber.
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His New Book: "The Art of Deflection." Resist the temptation to play Donald's game. It leads away from the real issues: Money. Russians. Probes into Jared---and Turning the tax code upside down for the benefit of real estate investors (especially the estate Tax).
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There is something deeply disturbing about a man who is obsessed with his daughter's body.
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Liberal hypocrisy is laughable. Sarah Palin, Melanie Trump, Barron Trump, the list goes on and on of all manner of hateful commentary. That President Trump has the temerity to punch back is all too much for the Left to take. Eight years won't be nearly enough.
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Trump's preoccupation with women and blood--a normal female function--makes me think he'd be better off switching teams. He's already switched loyalties for money to Putin & Co.
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I'm waiting for Trump to fire Sarah Huckabee Sanders bc she is obese.
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You elitist lefties think being a conservative in today's America is a bed of roses. Simply being a white male makes me, in the eyes of thou who art holier:
A racist
A misogynist
A xenophobe
A superstitious rube who believes in the great power in the sky
A wanna-be mass murderer with military-grade weapons
Let the president point out that some half-wit talking head is well and truly a half-wit, and the shrieks of mysoginy reach an ear-splitting crescendo.
But I don't care, 'cause we're in the majority.
You lefties can stuff it.
A racist
A misogynist
A xenophobe
A superstitious rube who believes in the great power in the sky
A wanna-be mass murderer with military-grade weapons
Let the president point out that some half-wit talking head is well and truly a half-wit, and the shrieks of mysoginy reach an ear-splitting crescendo.
But I don't care, 'cause we're in the majority.
You lefties can stuff it.
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Donald Trump is so delusional, that he must look in the mirror and see a handsome prince, not reality: a fat rotten pumpkin with a dead squirrel pasted on its head.
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Why not just call Trump the obvious term that fits so well? A twit.
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Sad thing is people just don't get the fact that we, the folks whom elected Trump loathe and despise the lying "Polished" politicians of yore....Go ahead and try and impeach him......you will open a can of worms the likes you've never seen.......Promise.
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Are you sure this Guy is mentally stable. He has the red button after all?
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The latest Brzezinski tweet is the vile-oh-lah brick on the Trump Yellow Road to the first successful Impeachment in our history.
http://thegovernmentinexile.live
http://thegovernmentinexile.live
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Maureen, Trump is not a Stalin, a Pol Pot or the devil himself Adolph Hitler.
His comments are juvenile and hurtful – but as the saying goes sticks and bones may break my bones but names will never harm me.
Nowadays it is common for people to have plastic surgery, men and women. I myself have had some, not that It helped much ;>)
In the entertainment business plastic surgery is rampant and the importance of looks stressed. It is a sad fact of life that these things matter.
Political correctness is far worse than his gibberish comments. Consider how yesterday the media accused John McEnroe of being a misogynist because of his comment that Vanessa Williams is not the best tennis player in the world but would be rated about 700 in the men’s league. A simple fact that went against the grain of political correctness.
How great is the damage done by political correctness when it prevents us from honestly addressing issues. We can’t talk about the population explosion in the USA which is behind so much of our problems, from environmental to health care, because it involves immigration. The list goes on. So his out bursts challenge PC a good thing.
And the fixation on his comments by the media are not all that different from Trumps fixation on the insults he feels he received.
Brzezinski is an adult, if she is so offended let her question what looks to me like Trump’s plastic surgery around his eyes or question his waistline.
Enough already.
His comments are juvenile and hurtful – but as the saying goes sticks and bones may break my bones but names will never harm me.
Nowadays it is common for people to have plastic surgery, men and women. I myself have had some, not that It helped much ;>)
In the entertainment business plastic surgery is rampant and the importance of looks stressed. It is a sad fact of life that these things matter.
Political correctness is far worse than his gibberish comments. Consider how yesterday the media accused John McEnroe of being a misogynist because of his comment that Vanessa Williams is not the best tennis player in the world but would be rated about 700 in the men’s league. A simple fact that went against the grain of political correctness.
How great is the damage done by political correctness when it prevents us from honestly addressing issues. We can’t talk about the population explosion in the USA which is behind so much of our problems, from environmental to health care, because it involves immigration. The list goes on. So his out bursts challenge PC a good thing.
And the fixation on his comments by the media are not all that different from Trumps fixation on the insults he feels he received.
Brzezinski is an adult, if she is so offended let her question what looks to me like Trump’s plastic surgery around his eyes or question his waistline.
Enough already.
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After reading this woman's predictable opinion and the echo chamber comments, I thank God that we have an Electoral College, otherwise we would be subjected to a continuing enslavement by the nooyawk 'n ellay "progressives."
Do you people really think his tweets are worse than a community organizer who could never say anything without a teleprompter or a secretary who slept through Benghazi?
Obviously, you do and it is truly pathetic. You are so easily distracted by inconsequentialities. The real malignancies are the Alinskyite "progressives," the RINO Neoconservatives, and the Enemedia; not the Presidency.
Do you people really think his tweets are worse than a community organizer who could never say anything without a teleprompter or a secretary who slept through Benghazi?
Obviously, you do and it is truly pathetic. You are so easily distracted by inconsequentialities. The real malignancies are the Alinskyite "progressives," the RINO Neoconservatives, and the Enemedia; not the Presidency.
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Maureen, your Op-Ed is right on point about Trump and no matter how much lipstick the Republicans and Trump's White House enablers put on Trump he is still a pig for his never ending sexist disparaging diatribe.
But Maureen...it's because of people like you, who refused to see that the Nov. 8th election was a choice between a future, hope and progress by voting for Hillary or regression, despair and chaos by voting for Trump, that we now have this disaster called Trump!
For over a year, each week, you used your barrel of ink to discredit, mock, belittle and vilify Hillary and or Bill.
So, Maureen, be careful what you wish for...now you've got the most unqualified person pretending to be our President!
But Maureen...it's because of people like you, who refused to see that the Nov. 8th election was a choice between a future, hope and progress by voting for Hillary or regression, despair and chaos by voting for Trump, that we now have this disaster called Trump!
For over a year, each week, you used your barrel of ink to discredit, mock, belittle and vilify Hillary and or Bill.
So, Maureen, be careful what you wish for...now you've got the most unqualified person pretending to be our President!
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A pig is a woman that supports the Trilateral commision.
Mika Brzezinski's father was the co-founder of the trilaterial commision.
Here's what it is:
The Trilaterial commision is international....and....is intended to be the vehicle
for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by
seizing control of the political government of the United States.
Barry Goldwater.
Miki is evil. Everything she says and does supports her fathers commision!
Mika Brzezinski's father was the co-founder of the trilaterial commision.
Here's what it is:
The Trilaterial commision is international....and....is intended to be the vehicle
for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by
seizing control of the political government of the United States.
Barry Goldwater.
Miki is evil. Everything she says and does supports her fathers commision!
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More fake news and nothing but hearsay, sad that real journalism has disappeared in America!
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No Maureen, not you too! Trump Derangement Syndrome has struck again! Get out of the bubble before it's too late!
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I can't get over the irony of a lady that helped demonize Hillary is upset with the jerk that she helped get elected.
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Fake news ? How about a FAKE presidency ?
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Pot meet kettle.
I remember Ms. Dowd describing President Obama several times as "Obambi".
Candidate Gore was said to be lactating.
And read many, many times politicians wives belittled in columns written by Ms. Dowd.
Trump's "cruel" comments descends directly from snark.
I remember Ms. Dowd describing President Obama several times as "Obambi".
Candidate Gore was said to be lactating.
And read many, many times politicians wives belittled in columns written by Ms. Dowd.
Trump's "cruel" comments descends directly from snark.
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Trump simply will not allow these uneducated radical leftists denigrate him without hitting back harder. To his credit, he gives you all TDS ( Trump Derangement Syndrome) and makes you look foolish for writing articles like this one. I think it is great. The NYT staff deserves every bit of punishment Trump can dish out for their continuous emotion driven nasty hatred of Trump.
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Doesn't trump personify what America has become? The myth is over. The racism, misogyny, the xenophobia was all there. Now it's out in the open for the world to see. The enemy is us. The French didn't elect the pig. The Germans had no part in it. The pigs voted for the pig. You could analyze this until the pigs come home. The answer is apparent. Americans are not what they advertise. WORLD, YOU ARE NO LONGER WELCOME HERE!
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You forget to mention how disgusted he was when he was in court and a lawyer needed a break to breast feed her baby.
Serial harassers harass both genders.
Cruel, and unendingly vindictive.
All of the columns about Trump since he began his candidacy and all the columns to come can be summed up in three words. Trump's a jerk.
deterioriating psychological state, malignant presidency
- less about mean tweets more about being dangerously unfit
thanks maureen.
- less about mean tweets more about being dangerously unfit
thanks maureen.
Just so we are clear, it is TOTALLY acceptable for the leftist media to say ANYTHING at all against anyone who disagrees with them, is this correct? I seek clarification only because it appears that leftist media folks believe they can attack anyone without impunity, and yet, when the leftist media gets retribution in kind, it finds itself in a world of horror and disbelief. Am I correct in this observation? You call the President of The United States vile names, you "sever his head" in your "plays" and "comedy", and yet you feign horror when he utters the phrase "Bleeding from wherever"? I'm just asking, if it is not "Presidential" to say such things, does the media not have a corresponding and/or commensurate standard for civility? Inquiring minds would like to know!
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What Trump does is not fighting back, it is lashing out in fear. He's afraid of being exposed for the fool (if he wants to bring up appearances, a soft, pudgy ugly fool) he is. People often mistake this kind of behavior for toughness, when in fact, it is the very opposite. He is as weak as he is ignorant.
Poke a dog with a stick on a regular basis, then don't be surprised when he bites you.
Those two have savaged Trump on a daily basis for months with every kind of hateful insult you can imagine. Who wouldn't get fed up after a while and strike back?
The MSM and liberals demand decorum of the president but extend nothing but bile and vitriol. They show no respect for the office or the person. Trump won the election fair and square and decisively, and they know it.
The day after Trump won, Hillary and Podesta manufactured the Russian meme out of thin air. Eleven months later not a shred of evidence is found to back up the hoax. Even their own people like Van Jones admit it's a sham. Schumer and the democrats in Congress knew, too, because Comey straight up told them so from the get-go.
Trump was gracious to all and sundry until the unending vicious attacks began. When the liberals proved hatefully unhinged and completely unreasonable, he punched back and continues to do so.
The left hiss and spit over things Trump spoke, but they excuse Bill Clinton's vile behavior, actual sexual assaults with a shrug. Hypocrites all. They're ripping this country apart.
Those two have savaged Trump on a daily basis for months with every kind of hateful insult you can imagine. Who wouldn't get fed up after a while and strike back?
The MSM and liberals demand decorum of the president but extend nothing but bile and vitriol. They show no respect for the office or the person. Trump won the election fair and square and decisively, and they know it.
The day after Trump won, Hillary and Podesta manufactured the Russian meme out of thin air. Eleven months later not a shred of evidence is found to back up the hoax. Even their own people like Van Jones admit it's a sham. Schumer and the democrats in Congress knew, too, because Comey straight up told them so from the get-go.
Trump was gracious to all and sundry until the unending vicious attacks began. When the liberals proved hatefully unhinged and completely unreasonable, he punched back and continues to do so.
The left hiss and spit over things Trump spoke, but they excuse Bill Clinton's vile behavior, actual sexual assaults with a shrug. Hypocrites all. They're ripping this country apart.
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Let's not mince words: Trump is 100% pig, of which sexism makes up a part.
It is negative and nasty pieces like this one that makes Donald Trump tweet in the manner that he does. The articles that have been written about him have been mean spirited and vile on a daily basis. They have called him a moron, idiot, questioned his psychological state and other unflattering names that no other president has ever experienced before. Is it any wonder, he tweets to defend himself? He is angry about this behavior and rightly so. He is our president and deserves respect not the disdain to the extent he has been receiving constantly. This infuriates him as it would any human being. Maybe if these cruel, mean pieces stop being printed, his tweets condemning those writing and reporting these unfair stories would stop. Why don't you and the other journalists give it a try? You might be pleasantly surprised to see Mr. Trump is really a nice person. He may just start to write nice tweets about an unbiased and fair press.
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In today's world we are being shown a new form of Anti Christ figure the Great American need to just muck about the world as if it was the King of the place and all you other earthlings better just bow down and worship us over here, and Donald Trump is the peak of that perfectionist Mind set that we Used to not be so bad at. Yes we are a great country, but we are not The.......top dog and you all got to bow to us Greatness that has been seeping out of the Elite Republican "Christ is king but we worship money really, just use his name to claim we have his blessing" Christ Warned his followers of those types of people that would use his name for ill gains. We are sliding into this time period where "unbelievers are more Christ Like than those that Claim to be Christians !!!!"
So All the world can see this. May you have the Peace that passes all understanding to your hearts and minds from the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
BioWebScape was here.
So All the world can see this. May you have the Peace that passes all understanding to your hearts and minds from the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
BioWebScape was here.
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Nah son of liberty you got it all wrong. Fighting isn't what he does. He eviscerates, obliterates, degrades, dehumanizes, pummels - over petty things. He is incapable of focusing or completing any thing presidential or important because he, personally (himself) is the only importance in his narcissistic and masochistic world. We now have a certified whacko despot in wh. If fighting back was what he did we wouldn't have al Assad, ISIS, racism, russian intrusion. We'd have education, arts, science, health - simply put, we would have a bright positive American future. CUT CUT degrade - his pathetic, recklessness and viciousness is a stain on America. We'll recover in time, when he melts to nothing - like all bad witches do in the light of virtue and goodness.
Maureen Dowd's characterization of Donald Trump as "a pig" is insulting to pigs. Pigs provide many benefits to humankind, and in almost all cases lose their lives doing so. In describing Mr. Trump I would rather use a more generic term: Vermin.
I think there may be some strange Freudian undertone to a person who is obsessed by women and bleeding....
Would some liberal in New York mide telling me the difference from a man calling a woman bloody from a face lift, and a woman calling a man a pig? If the one proves that Trump hates women, does the other prove that Dowd hates men? Or is it that New Yorkers just live by a double standard? It's only wrong when a Rebuplican is cruel to a woman, and justice when a Democrat is cruel to the President?
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Maureen,
After getting excluded from the "hip" NYC dinner parties for bashing Hillary it was time for redemption. Read most of the DNCTDS comments (DNC Trump Derangement Syndrome). I think the invites are coming soon, you're back in the in crowd. You all can commiserate. I'll just be Winning and Smiling while I sip my scotch.
After getting excluded from the "hip" NYC dinner parties for bashing Hillary it was time for redemption. Read most of the DNCTDS comments (DNC Trump Derangement Syndrome). I think the invites are coming soon, you're back in the in crowd. You all can commiserate. I'll just be Winning and Smiling while I sip my scotch.
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So Maureen's good news is that Trump is not a misogynist because he is equally vile to men and women! Trump's focus on body weight of women, their menstrual cycles, their looks, and unfortunate habit of women having to use the bathroom to relieve themselves during long debates is according to Trump "disgusting." This sounds like rampant and "disgusting" misogyny to me. The President is one sick guy who mocks women every chance he gets. He even mocked Hillary Clinton for nearly passing out when she forged head with a 9/11 event despite her pneumonia. Maureen got one thing right and that is the President is indeed a pig as well as a male chauvinist pig.
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By now it is, or it should be obvious to at least a majority of people in this country and certainly a majority in the House and Senate that Donald Trump, our President, has a personality disorder. I prefer to call it at this time a Borderline Personality Disorder. Yes it is classified as a psychiatric disorder.
It is beyond belief that he is still seating in The White House, most of his free time watching TV, if not tweeting ridiculous and sensless stuff.
We, as a country and as a Democracy, should be able to unite our forces and start effective action to get him out, impeach? We can't wait any longer, for the sake of our and our chlidren's future.
It is beyond belief that he is still seating in The White House, most of his free time watching TV, if not tweeting ridiculous and sensless stuff.
We, as a country and as a Democracy, should be able to unite our forces and start effective action to get him out, impeach? We can't wait any longer, for the sake of our and our chlidren's future.
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Let's see. Morning Jo just got higher ratings. Not bad for being the object of a few tweets. Isn't that what Mika and Jo really want?
You Manhattan liberals should know that a steer-fighting New Yorker like Trump is not into "nice" or "presidential" when he is mercilessly slandered by the mediocrities who call themselves journalists. You just don't like to get it back. You attack and then cry out on high umbrage when someone has the guts to strike back. The pigs are the leftist media. Trump just makes you squeal. And we the people love every minute of it.
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As Spicer has said repeated times: "the tweet speaks for itself"...
I remember David Brooks saying on pbs during the 2016 campaign that Hillary did not know how to get her message accross while Donald was a master at using phrases that stick, like liile Marco, crooked Hillary, fat Chris, etc. The media has cheered and exploited for ratings the cruelty of this man. But now, a lot of these same people say they are shocked, please!
I remember David Brooks saying on pbs during the 2016 campaign that Hillary did not know how to get her message accross while Donald was a master at using phrases that stick, like liile Marco, crooked Hillary, fat Chris, etc. The media has cheered and exploited for ratings the cruelty of this man. But now, a lot of these same people say they are shocked, please!
In order to preserve my sanity, I have chosen humor to save my soul from contamination by Trump and the misogynist Republicans. I hereby consider Donald Trump a stand-up comedian. I laugh out loud at my own cartoon... Kathy Griffin's facsimile of Trump's bloody severed head telling Mika Brzezinski that she can't join him for dinner at Mar-a-Lago because "she is bleeding badly from a face-lift."
Always remember that the right can dish it, but they can't take it.
Example headline: "Mussolini" calls Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas."
Always remember that the right can dish it, but they can't take it.
Example headline: "Mussolini" calls Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas."
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Thank you, Maureen, for helping to get this "pig" elected. You can pat yourself on the back for that. And now you have nice fodder for columns recounting all the nasty, mean, sexist, paranoid, cruel, sick things Trump says every week. You are late to understanding and slow on the ball. GIving Trump the benefit of the doubt about the "blood coming out of her wherever" really reveals your massive blindspot when it comes to Republicans. But it is nice to see you opening your eyes and speaking out against Trump's cruelty and "elastic relationship with the truth" which I think means lies. You are making headway in calling a spade a spade.
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Trump's low-blow-then-play-the-injured-party modus operandi is straight out of the Roy Cohn Manual. He can't unlearn it. In the narcissistic spirit of "there's no such thing as bad press," he relies upon his boasts and kidney punches to retain control of the headlines.
Trump can't change. He is what he is. We're saddled with him. This is how it's going to be.
Sad...
Trump can't change. He is what he is. We're saddled with him. This is how it's going to be.
Sad...
The boorish Trump is the revenge of the"deplorables". Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. As has been said many times before their contempt for white working class Americans left them open for the consequences. They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
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OK Maureen, let's say you nailed your description of Trump. And let's say the people who voted for him knew all and and didn't care. Shouldn't you ask WHY they don't care. Maybe they figured it takes a guy as rough and crass as that to kick you and your friends where it counts. Because face it Mo, you and your chums over on the radical left outside the main stream...(you do know you're 'fringe' don't you)...have done a smash up job at running things, and that's meant in a literal way. It takes a wrecking ball to knock down a deteriorating wreck of a structure, and that's what the Demo/GOP insider clic gang has done. PLEASE prove this wrong. Dare you.
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The press could certainly destroy Trump if they wanted to. They must not want to. Maybe they're not "fake" after all, but are trying to play it "down the middle." How would they destroy him? By ridiculing and belittling him in no-nonsense, obvious terms. Laughing at him and his press secretary openly and obviously, not just in editorials but on the front page. He'd tweet himself into oblivion. Then he'd get censured by congress for being such an inappropriate idiot. Then he'd double down on inappropriate until they drum him out of office. In light of how outrageous his behavior has been up until now, the press has been treating him with kid gloves. He might not see it that way, but they really have.
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And let's not forget that he has never once apologized for anything he's said, never once backed off or backed down and never once admitted he was wrong about anything for as long back as I can remember and for me that 's when he started the birther movement. It's a perfect storm and it's not gonna end well.. we're told it's because of what he learned from the notorious Roy Cohn. If that's so then it's a strategy. The question is will it work when you're President. So far iitdoesn't look good
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Excellent choice of words here: "... such an elastic relationship with the truth, and since some staffers have been known to feed journalists false details just to mess with them." Well described. Thank you.
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I have not read everything closely. But, it appears that Trump is lashing back at the morons who are attacking him. He should just ignore these worthless people. Attention Everyone, we voted for Trump knowing that he was NOT Mother Teresa. So, stop attacking him and he will stop attacking you.
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Trump is indeed is a cruel man!!
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I have a relative who is a very toxic narcissist - she wants to be either loved or hated. Either is fine by her. Funnily enough she calls herself Cruella.
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"...bite back like a cornered animal, without regard for societal norms; his lack of self-awareness about the power he commands and the proportionality of his responses;..."
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I have always considered free speech a two way street. G.W. Bush was hit relentlessly for 8 years and hardly raised voice in protest. At the end of 8 years he was considered a loser. People that knew President Trump before he ran for office also knew he was no wall flower.
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Now, on the political scene for two years, who has not learned, when you "slight" President Trump, you will be answered. This week's new meme, the President has a mental illness. Diagnosed and publicly pronounced by the same crew that said Trump could not win the nomination and Hillary WAS GOING TO WIN BY 100 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES.
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I guess if the messenger stays the same, but, a new message is delivered every week, we can look forward to a new message next week. Will we find out about "Kate's Law"? I'm sure it's racist or something. What's North Korea up to these days? They've been pretty quiet this week. Or, maybe there was just too much noise for them to be heard.
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Trump yesterday. Trump today. Trump tomorrow.
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I have always considered free speech a two way street. G.W. Bush was hit relentlessly for 8 years and hardly raised voice in protest. At the end of 8 years he was considered a loser. People that knew President Trump before he ran for office also knew he was no wall flower.
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Now, on the political scene for two years, who has not learned, when you "slight" President Trump, you will be answered. This week's new meme, the President has a mental illness. Diagnosed and publicly pronounced by the same crew that said Trump could not win the nomination and Hillary WAS GOING TO WIN BY 100 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES.
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I guess if the messenger stays the same, but, a new message is delivered every week, we can look forward to a new message next week. Will we find out about "Kate's Law"? I'm sure it's racist or something. What's North Korea up to these days? They've been pretty quiet this week. Or, maybe there was just too much noise for them to be heard.
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Trump yesterday. Trump today. Trump tomorrow.
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More bleats from the precious media... and yet The Donald proceeds on course doing what he said he would do. Better Supreme Court appointments, job growth, stock market up, the world a bit uncertain about what the US will do if we are attacked or dismissed as feckless and ineffective. Works for me. Dowd upset and bleating? Mika and Joe upset and insulting/ insulted? CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, HuffPo, and the New York Tims foaming and frothing with indignation? It's all good for me and the fine folk out here in flyover land.
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Trump is becoming unhinged. His comment is like the middle school bully, the dumb one, who has just been bested by the nerds. He shouts out in exasperation, in reference to nothing in particular, "well you had blood on your face". It borders on what psychologists would call a word salad.
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Yes except he's not "like" the bully, he IS the bully.
What a fresh perspective--yawn. We get it, Trump is Trump. Is this really all we're supposed to care about?
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Then there is Trump in his Plus-size Depends and Spun-sugar pompadour.
That he imagines himself the judge of human beauty while being so toxic is just Sad.
That he imagines himself the judge of human beauty while being so toxic is just Sad.
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We all know Trump is seriously mentally ill. How this will end is anyone's guess.
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Do not expect him to change at any time. He shows all the signs of anosognosia which is a medical term for lack of insight. It's not the same as denial which is willful. Patients with anosognosia are incapable of it.
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This article confirms why my 40 yr NY Times subscription was cancelled. This paper's one sided irrelevant rhetoric is as damaging as that which they allegedly judge
It's barely only worth the 10 free articles I get per month to be reminded why I cancelled!
It's barely only worth the 10 free articles I get per month to be reminded why I cancelled!
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I get it NYT, you are deliberately suppressing pro Trump comments,
well enjoy your delusion with your liberal audience.
You can't honestly compete with logic & reason .
well enjoy your delusion with your liberal audience.
You can't honestly compete with logic & reason .
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He hits back hard. If you can't handle it don't start it.
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ABC's of Trump: antagonistic, boorish, corrupt, delusional, egotistical, foolish, greedy, hubristic, ignorant, jejune, kleptocratic, larcenous, misogynistic, narcissistic, obtuse, prevaricating, quarrelsome, robber-baron, sociopathic, trouble-making, underhanded, vengeful, wrathful, xenophobic, yellow-bellied, and zoned-out.
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Ya, sooooo funny. When he was on the apprentice, the media loved him. When he put a REP in front of his name, the long-knives came out. George Soros gives over 600M yearly to the media... go figure.
Can it really still be this much fun since THE VICTORY in November 2016???!!!!
President Trump has media twisted like pretzels!!!!!
President Trump has media twisted like pretzels!!!!!
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The great American electorate choose to avoid the suppuration of mortal evil threatened by Clinton - which reduces Trump's mercurial faults to a crass yet tame comparison. The Rock of Sisyphus rolled down over Clinton and the Donald is king of the Castle. At least he doesn't joke about the dead ... The have-nots - few writing here, elected him. Or, let me put it this way to taunt you toffs to a jibe in sailing parlance; the half-knots created a full and very useful square-reef knot that keeps the ship-of-state on an even keel. With Clinton at the wheel we would be on the rocks by now. Donald has us bearing straight ahead. No, not Bering Straits and not towards Russia.
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Actually, I prefer Tony Soprano to The Donald. At least we knew Tony was fictional. The Donald? All too real.
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"Honcho" is defined as "a leader or manager; the person in charge." So, why "head" honcho?
Maureen Dowd is doing exactly the things she criticizes President Trump for doing. She calls our president names such as toad and pig. That is so disrespectful and rude. How can she expect Mr. Trump to behave when she is acting in a manor she criticizes him for. Civility should start with Ms. Dowd so President Trump can follow her example.
This article has not had one redeeming factor about President Trump and this is unjust. She should know better.
This article has not had one redeeming factor about President Trump and this is unjust. She should know better.
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Can you believe we are having this discussion about the POTUS!!!
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Some commenters have seemed to suggest that our Maureen Dowd has, from time to time, shown unwonted tolerance for Mr. Donald Trump. Not this time; I respect her making Mr. Trump a pig, and not only a sexist pig. How did Mr. Trump gain such sympathetic treatment? Our heroine reveals that "He did once tell me, though, that he considered women “tougher” and that he related to them better." Could it be that Mr. Trump said what he thought Ms. Dowd wanted to hear, all those years ago? And that he got it right? Mr. Trump is nothing, if not an astute reader of people. Witness the power of the right words at the right time.
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It's pretty rich that a fat, bloated 71-year-old white man with an orange painted face and facial expressions that indicate instability criticizes perfectly fine looking people for their looks. He's jealous. He's "not well," as Mika says. He's utterly pathetic. He must believe his base's mind dwells in the gutter because that's where he mucks about every day. Now he calls his base behavior the standard for a "modern" Presidency. It is an absolute shame that there are no controls in place in the American system--including a mental health test for Presidential candidates--to prevent such a man from holding the highest office. So far we are lucky the conflict is about Mika and Morning Joe and not about war, nukes and mortal danger. Someone is going to take advantage of this lunatic helming the country.
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Come on, Maureen, you need to show some guts here. This Mika and Joe thing has run its course. Considering you don't write for the National Enquirer, I'm certain Trump doesn't read your column. So, like many of your colleagues, you need to become a regular on a news talk show. Donnie needs a new playmate.
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Where is his mother?
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But seriously, Maureen, how do we explain this latest unpresidential Trump-twitter melt down?
What motivates President Trump? Why is he so vengeful and unapologetic? Why is it that he cannot put the past behind him and embark upon a more promising future? Why do so many who are exposed to his public persona become convinced that he is wholly unreflective, mean-spirited and self-destructive?
Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, in their NYT article "Why Letting Go, for Trump, Is No Small or Simple Task," provide us with a focused response to the foregoing questions.
"First, aides say that Mr. Trump . . . is driven by a need to prove his legitimacy as president to the many critics who deem him an unworthy victor forever undercut by Hillary Clinton’s three-million-vote win in the popular vote. . . . Second, fighting back . . . .Third, diversion is an important motive. . . . Finally, Mr. Trump hasn’t let up because no one can stop him."
In short, what you see is what you get. President Trump simply is what he is: deeply insecure, vengeful, manipulative (he unhesitatingly employs misdirection and falsehood as means to his ends), and pretty much incorrigible.
Are we dealing with deep-seated psycho-pathology here or what?
Republican politicians wake up! The U.S. Constitution provides procedures for ridding the Republic of such an unfit president
What motivates President Trump? Why is he so vengeful and unapologetic? Why is it that he cannot put the past behind him and embark upon a more promising future? Why do so many who are exposed to his public persona become convinced that he is wholly unreflective, mean-spirited and self-destructive?
Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, in their NYT article "Why Letting Go, for Trump, Is No Small or Simple Task," provide us with a focused response to the foregoing questions.
"First, aides say that Mr. Trump . . . is driven by a need to prove his legitimacy as president to the many critics who deem him an unworthy victor forever undercut by Hillary Clinton’s three-million-vote win in the popular vote. . . . Second, fighting back . . . .Third, diversion is an important motive. . . . Finally, Mr. Trump hasn’t let up because no one can stop him."
In short, what you see is what you get. President Trump simply is what he is: deeply insecure, vengeful, manipulative (he unhesitatingly employs misdirection and falsehood as means to his ends), and pretty much incorrigible.
Are we dealing with deep-seated psycho-pathology here or what?
Republican politicians wake up! The U.S. Constitution provides procedures for ridding the Republic of such an unfit president
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If Trump is causing the frauds at the Huffington Post to implode when do we get sick of winning?
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Is anyone really shocked or even surprised? Trump wouldn't last 30 seconds in a ring with most of the women he's attacked (put that image in your minds.) Yet we bestow the title, "King of mean" on him, as if without his mafia money, and now a stolen presidency (there are many ways to steal something,) his meanness would mean anything at all. He's a low life, and has been all his life. If you grew up in NY and watched this buffoon over the past 40 plus years, you would know unequivocally that he is a loser (wonder why he lost NY? New Yorkers know him too well,) and nothing more. His policies - healthcare, taxes, immigration, foreign, etc. - makes us all losers. His laughable reputation around the world makes us all losers. And today, being a Republican, means being the kings (and queens) of losers - how can they even imagine a healthcare plan like they've put forward will be good for the 90% who will be destroyed by such a catastrophic bill? Every day we prolong this massacre of our democracy and system of promise, brings us one day closer to losing everything we've built over 250 years. Stop analyzing Trump. Start analyzing a Republican congress which is allowing Trump to destroy our way of life (and our civility, moral codes, economic future) and reveal how "unpatriotic" these hypocrites really are. Democrats too, for giving up their working class roots, allowing a Trump to even compete...
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And there's what's-her-name Huckabee what's-her-name. In a just universe I would never have heard of her, much less been subjected to the nonsense she spouts.
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As I read the postings and rantings of the typical NYT's reader, I can't help but associating nearly the exact verbage expressed in postings over the last eight years, while an out of control hyper-partisan divisive leftist steeped in Marxism set about to tear apart this nation in every metric conceivable, But here you liberals are bemoaning Trump like this is some new dynamic occurring, it's really hilarious. I urge all you coastal elitists, north easterners and the very "small" pockets of hiLAIRy voters to view the County electoral map; it may shock you?
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What a Dynamic Duo that could have been: had Trump been born earlier in history, he the King of Mean could have been allied (married even) with the then-renowned Queen of Mean, the late Leona Hemsley. Oh, the possibilities!!!
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Sorry, in my book you lost your right to complain about Trump when you didn't come out against his candidacy early and often. A child of ten could tell he was a train wreck of historic proportions, but you continued to bash the Clintons anyway. You sewed it Mo, so it remains yours to reap.
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How is your brother Kevin these days? Utterly exhausted from all the winning I am guessing.
As for this pathetic excuse of a "President" when do we or who draws the line when as you say "he reacts like a cornered animal" and gets into scary territory in his need for revenge?
As for this pathetic excuse of a "President" when do we or who draws the line when as you say "he reacts like a cornered animal" and gets into scary territory in his need for revenge?
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Well the article is devoid of anything other than vile name calling and innuendo. What's present here is only Maureen Dowd's hatred of Trump, for what isn't clear but I suspect she's upset because of Trump's success.
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Question.
Why doesn't Tweeter sensor President Trump every time he goes on a offensive tweeter rampage? They appear to have done it to others. Why not the President? Why is he being allowed to tweet and offend. Better yet, why doesn't Tweeter close his account, and ban him permanently? If he wants the behave like a petulant and immature child, perhaps it is time we all start treating him as such. Time outs included.
Should we all be engaging in a writing campaign making such a request from Tweeter?
Why doesn't Tweeter sensor President Trump every time he goes on a offensive tweeter rampage? They appear to have done it to others. Why not the President? Why is he being allowed to tweet and offend. Better yet, why doesn't Tweeter close his account, and ban him permanently? If he wants the behave like a petulant and immature child, perhaps it is time we all start treating him as such. Time outs included.
Should we all be engaging in a writing campaign making such a request from Tweeter?
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Another whining piece about Trump, to bad these hacks from the propaganda office of the DNC didn't dig into Obama this way. Perhaps we wouldn't have put him in office once much less twice if we had known how he would constantly use race, gender, income and party to divide the country for political gain. Trump walks the walk, obama was constantly lecturing us then continued to live as a global elitist, rules are for little people.
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I find it sad that his nasty perverse twitter storms are given endless publicity. He is a sick nasty man who happens to be president of the United States. He has zero capacity to do the job, knows nothing about foreign policy, nothing about the healthcare bill that can deprive 22 million people of their insurance coverage, and lies continually.
I just hope for our sakes that he is removed quickly and I also hope that the media concentrates on the important issues such as the Russian interference in our election, the possible collusion of Trump and people in his campaign, the healthcare debacle and can stop concentrating on his obvious mental issues and pathological lying.
I just hope for our sakes that he is removed quickly and I also hope that the media concentrates on the important issues such as the Russian interference in our election, the possible collusion of Trump and people in his campaign, the healthcare debacle and can stop concentrating on his obvious mental issues and pathological lying.
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It's a pity Miss Dowd couldn't resist reprising the assertion that President Trump boasted about assaulting women. Averring that something is true because one WANTS it to be true doesn't MAKE it true. There must be a term for that.
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What is becoming more nauseating is the way the women staff are making excuses for him and saying "he is being picked on," as if he were a helpless fifth grade bully with an inferiority complex. As a matter of fact, that's just what he is.
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"When he was planning to run for president in 2014, he required males and females in his organization to get in shape"
Do as I say not as I do, since Trump is, at 238 pounds on a 6'2" frame, at least 50 pounds overweight and out of shape with his Kentucky Fried Chicken and other fast food based diet.
Do as I say not as I do, since Trump is, at 238 pounds on a 6'2" frame, at least 50 pounds overweight and out of shape with his Kentucky Fried Chicken and other fast food based diet.
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"(He did once tell me, though, that he considered women “tougher” and that he related to them better.)" Right here you made me loose confidence in your confidence; you have no true relative depth of where we all are now, in our historical context, you are fast becoming part of the blind leading the clueless. The american press is not prepared for this. They have always lived in a nice perfect bubble. Even Watergate was a nice bubble of press freedom. This era is the truest of tests. I hope we pass. Ms. Dowd, one of my all time favorite columnist is not yet aware of what is coming. Please Maureen, you got the with and perfect prose. Please get your journalistic tools of the trade sharpened.
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Sorry, this longtime reader cannot unread the time during the campaign when Dowd was bragging that she was the only person at the Times whose calls Trump would return.
Like Morning Joe, you are having buyer's remorse, and we will not forget your complicity in getting this man elected.
Like Morning Joe, you are having buyer's remorse, and we will not forget your complicity in getting this man elected.
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"Trump has always been obsessed with looks — his own, men’s and women’s."
His own?? You've got to be kidding. When was the last time time he visited a hairstylist, a tailor, the gym...an optometrist?
His own?? You've got to be kidding. When was the last time time he visited a hairstylist, a tailor, the gym...an optometrist?
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And you helped elect him, Ms. Dowd.
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the feeble minded or dishonest that cannot factually support a position downshift to childish, personal attack.
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Are you disgusted at the thuggishness, ignorance, and sheer incompetence of DT, his enablers and administration? Worse, are you convinced that our very democracy is being attacked from without and within in a bloodless coup? There are times---once in a generation, even once in a lifetime--when individuals are called on to ensure that the very foundations of our democracy continue. Clearly, Mr. Trump is most vulnerable on Russiagate. He’s indicated that in many different ways. Contact your two senators Call the Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121 An automated voice will ask for your ZIP code and you'll be routed to your senators. A congressional aide will answer and record your concerns and pass them on. It takes 5 minutes. Politely request their complete support for an immediate, full, open, and bi-partisan hearing into the alleged Russian influences. AND be sure to urge that Mr. Trump's tax returns be subpoenaed. You can also ask Dem senators to post strong position statements on their web pages and GOP senators why they are waiting to cure a malignancy at the heart of our government. State your case clearly. You are an American and are concerned about our democracy. They listen and do keep count. You can rightly call yourself a citizen patriot. If you've got time to spend on comment boards you've got time to speak your mind to your elected officials where it counts. When someone asks what you did during this crisis, point to your calls. Your country will thank you.
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lying is his sport of choice.
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Could we ask for a better role model for our children? We must demand it! Hobble him in 2018 and send him packing in 2020. This is how democracy works!
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Better late than never Maureen. It would have been more useful about a year ago.
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it is AMAZING that the media...while complaining about trumps assi ine tweets, continue to give him coverage! where is the coverage of Kates Law, the ROK Prezi et al? instead, the media are for some inexplicable reason FIXAted ON THE UNEDITED 140 CHARACTER TWEETS THE POTUS SENDS OUT.
SHOULD WE CARE? no SHOULD WE BE "unenthusiastic" at best about his tweets? ABSOLUTELY.
can we ignore the "noise"...and focus on the SUBSTANCE?
me? im happy with the way hes is focusing on enforcing laws passed by congress and previous prezi; im happy he is using EO to flip obarakks questionable EOs, im more encouraged by his strategy to eliminate daesh/isis....rather than just talk about em...im encouraged by the reduction in regs...
now...if only mr trump could have his twitter acct suspeneded.....
SHOULD WE CARE? no SHOULD WE BE "unenthusiastic" at best about his tweets? ABSOLUTELY.
can we ignore the "noise"...and focus on the SUBSTANCE?
me? im happy with the way hes is focusing on enforcing laws passed by congress and previous prezi; im happy he is using EO to flip obarakks questionable EOs, im more encouraged by his strategy to eliminate daesh/isis....rather than just talk about em...im encouraged by the reduction in regs...
now...if only mr trump could have his twitter acct suspeneded.....
Maureen Dowd finally noticed who her pal Trump really was, months after the election which she spent tearing down his opponent. You own him too, Ms Dowd.
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Jeb Bush would never do what Trump did.
That's why he is not a president !!!
You was, are and will be wrong about him.
That's why he is not a president !!!
You was, are and will be wrong about him.
Talk about calling the kettle black.... the Trump family and the President have endured constant insults, verbal cruelty and faux press for a year now and now Ms. Dowd says he's cruel..... gosh, her hypocrisy, indeed the entire left wing hypocrisy knows no bounds.... I have found that when an accusation like this is made with such passion and anger, it's because the person see's themselves in the mirror.... such is the case with Ms. Dowd....
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I disagree with the theory du jour that Trump is psychologically "melting down".
His behavior has been consistently despicable and completely predictable in every way since the moment he descended from that escalator two years ago in Trump Tower.
He famously called Mexicans "rapists", and amazingly enough he's kept the disgrace-0-meter pegged to 11 ever since.
Nothing he does, has done or will do should shock or surprise anybody.
The one thing that makes Trump so uniquely grotesque is that he allows us almost continuous access to his unfiltered ID, which is operating at about a 5 year old's level.
His behavior has been consistently despicable and completely predictable in every way since the moment he descended from that escalator two years ago in Trump Tower.
He famously called Mexicans "rapists", and amazingly enough he's kept the disgrace-0-meter pegged to 11 ever since.
Nothing he does, has done or will do should shock or surprise anybody.
The one thing that makes Trump so uniquely grotesque is that he allows us almost continuous access to his unfiltered ID, which is operating at about a 5 year old's level.
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Mika constantly refers to President Trumps hands as being "tiny", an obviously referring to comparisons to sexual organs. If the woman can't take his sexist comments, she should refrain from constantly making sexist comments on national news herself.
And the NYT should quit enabling her by crying in their beard over it as well.
And the NYT should quit enabling her by crying in their beard over it as well.
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Dear Maureen: you spent a lot of time bashing
Mrs. Clinton and President Obama and bragging about the trump voters in your family.
You have failed as a journalist and as an ethical human being
in not revealing trump for what he is.
Which was obvious to anyone with half a brain.
Now we are stuck with him as our country slides into chaos.
Mrs. Clinton and President Obama and bragging about the trump voters in your family.
You have failed as a journalist and as an ethical human being
in not revealing trump for what he is.
Which was obvious to anyone with half a brain.
Now we are stuck with him as our country slides into chaos.
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Dear Mo, have you finally awakened to what we have elected? Your fawning humor columns on Trump during the campaign were obnoxious and disingenuous. You promoted him rather than reporting what he was like then - no different than he is now - obnoxious, devious, deceitful and insulting to the other candidates. You helped those who loved his 'tell it like it is' approach to the campaign.
I guess I should say thanks for being more honest, but it is galling to think about your game playing with him during the campaign.
I guess I should say thanks for being more honest, but it is galling to think about your game playing with him during the campaign.
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I just want to say that Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are not really the poster boys for the proposed health care plan. The poster boy is really, hands down, Martin Shkreli, who, in 2015, jacked up the prices of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750.00 per pill. That psychopathic sort of thing will happen with appalling regularity if this bill passes. Do we want that smarmy, smirking, arrogant face to be the face of Modern Medicine in America?
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He is pitiful- our country is backsliding in so many ways with him as President
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What if everybody in red states emulated trump?
What would the murder rate be there?
Yuuge?
What would the murder rate be there?
Yuuge?
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The best part of this article is the complete and total lack of self awareness on the part of the author. Almost every charge that Dowd levels at Trump applies to her at least as well. She's every bit the equal of Trump in crassness, false equivalencies, and personal attacks.
The only real complaint that Dowd seems to have is that Trump took their act all the way to the White House, while she's still stuck writing columns.
The only real complaint that Dowd seems to have is that Trump took their act all the way to the White House, while she's still stuck writing columns.
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Tweets succeed were Russian collusion failed.
...reduced to name-calling.
Trump wins.
...reduced to name-calling.
Trump wins.
Can we all - the public and the press shut him out? Blank him out, leave him alone, ignore him, ground him.
He is not our worry fellows- it is us playing to his tunes. He pulls us in his vortex and we go scrambling mad into his game.
Let us please devote our valuable space and time to debating policies.
And please ignore this columnist writer who does the same- gossip- without any substance, and calling names.
He is not our worry fellows- it is us playing to his tunes. He pulls us in his vortex and we go scrambling mad into his game.
Let us please devote our valuable space and time to debating policies.
And please ignore this columnist writer who does the same- gossip- without any substance, and calling names.
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The insults and name-calling started from the left. Trump is the first Republican in over 75 years to fight back. His agenda was voted in because people are sick and tired of the lies and the failures of the neo-Marxist Democrats...but the American left will do anything and I mean anything to halt real American progress. In this case Dowd resorts to name-calling. It is a sign of intellectual deficiencies. Rep. Lamar Smith reminds us, “Those who engage in name-calling seldom have the facts on their side.” Socrates told us, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." And so it is. And I might remind Ms. Dowd that the elasticity with the truth is hers and her compatriots on America's left to savor and own. The real truth is you can pretty much tell that anything that comes from the mouths of mainstream journalists today is fake news to feed the corrupt agenda of "the ruling class". "We the People" see otherwise and have finally begun the course to take our nation back and to adhere to the Constitution, not to the whims of the progressives. The WH won't be quiet and we won't be quiet until the real truth is told and our agenda is safely moving the country back to prosperity. Just be quiet for a change and let the rest of us have a say. Get over it Maureen and quit trying to disect or micro-analyze anything. The only "cruelty" has been the horrible mismanagement of our country by Democrats and the RINOs who love them. It is time to make America great again!
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Maureen, so you took the bait. He told you that he finds women tougher and he gets along with them better because he calculated that's what you wanted to hear. Calls Times fake news to his cult but also tells the Times how great they are when invited over for a photo-op chat. This guy is all about utility and whatever serves him best at any given moment. Amazing how many people are duped by calculated flattery.
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"Let’s not narrow it to sexism." Thank you, Maureen.
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Maureen Dowd is the only liberal Op-Ed writer on the Times staff that I can stomach to read. Everybody else on the staff is a social justice warrior whose identity politics makes their views more detestable than Trump's grotesqueness. But she nails it again on Trump. "At least we have Neil Gorsuch" is going to get really old over the next three and a half years.
right out of the democrat playbook! Unfortunately for them, many of us gave up name calling in grade school.
And yet, despite the appalling litany of garbage that the president spewed during the 18 months leading up to the election and has continued to spew on a daily basis since then, 53% of all women voted for him, included in a total of almost 63 million citizens.
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