Dowd: Trump, Having a Bawl in Europe
Flummoxed and craven Republicans scramble to go along with a president who has turned the traditional heroes and villains of the G.O.P. topsy-turvy, berating our European allies, NATO, the N.F.L., the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., and canoodling with the mendacious and scheming Russians.
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Its hard to believe that the British have found someone to despise more than they despise George W. Bush and his poodle, Tony Blair. But they have. With their flair for satirical wit, they perfectly lampooned the loathed American president with Trump Baby, a 19-foot floating balloon in the shape of a wailing orange baby in a diaper holding a cellphone with Twitter on the screen.
There were dueling Trump babies the real one and the blimp when the president sucker punched his hostess. Trump gave Rupert Murdochs Sun an interview criticizing Prime Minister May on Brexit, threatening her on trade, praising her rival, Boris Johnson, and throwing in some white nationalist dog whistles as clotted cream on the crumpet.
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It is up for debate whether Donald Trump will be a sad aberration in American history, a mere blip. But, thanks to the cheeky citizens of London, he will always be a blimp.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/sunday/trump-having-a-bawl-in-europe.html
OnDoutside
(19,907 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)almost as much as I do Trump.
She was among the enablers for his "election."
dalton99a
(81,068 posts)and yes, she adored The Donald
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Dowd's easy to hate. And she deserves it. Her opinions are always completely and petulantly personal. But I will always give her credit for being among the first journalists in the post 9/11 Bushworld, when patriotic war mania was hysterical and criticizing the Commander in Chief was considered treason, she was one of the only ones, along with Molly Ivins, to call out W as a dangerous doofus. At the time it was actually a brave thing to do. After that I think she's always worth reading, like it or not, and with a heavy dose of salt.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)could be here, giving her opinion of tRump!! Anne Richards, too. Great ladies. Cut right to the core of a subject, no sugar coating anything.
Some voices are just irreplaceable. Especially like Ivins and Richards. No bullshit straight up with a chaser of sarcasm to wash it down.
Paladin
(28,202 posts)Strictly Peggy Noonan-level, honey.