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Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd is a New York Times columnist.

Donald Trump recently said the Smithsonian – the world’s largest museum, education and research complex, which is based in Washington – is “out of control”.

Trump says he’s worried about getting into heaven. He should be

Trump’s newest painting of himself is a perfect metaphor for the president who sets fires and leaves destruction in his wake.

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Donald Trump announced plans to deploy the National Guard to Washington and place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control in a push to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.

The Democrats can’t allow Trump to be a saviour on crime in Washington

Just because the US president is painting Washington as a crime-ridden hellscape does not mean we don’t have a problem in D.C.

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Donald Trump is turning the White House into a rococo place with a ‘dictator-chic’ aesthetic.

Trump is turning the people’s house into a ‘dictator-chic’ Saudi palace

The US president is obsessively terraforming the White House to be an extension of his attention-crazed id.

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Donald Trump isn’t often pictured holding a book, but during the 2015 presidential campaign holds a Dr Seuss-style book on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

How men can reject Trump’s crude masculinity and rediscover their richer selves

An obsession with money and wealth has apparently taught men they should only read nonfiction if they want tips on how to crush their rivals.

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South Park skewers Donald Trump and its own company shortly after signing a new deal with Paramount.

Media and tech firms are bending the knee to Trump. Only satirists say how small he is

Who can believe the story presented by CBS about the axing of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show? Thank goodness Rupert is hanging tough.

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The US president said the reports were “untruthful” and relied on sources that “probably don’t even exist”.

Trump promised to bring down the deep state. To MAGA loyalists, he’s joined it

The president has trafficked in conspiracy theories for years. Now that dark whirlpool has sucked him down, and he can no longer control the Epstein madness.

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US President Donald Trump, left, and Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defence.

Why Donald Trump’s good-looking cabinet can’t stop making him look bad

In prioritising TV aesthetics and uber-fealty, the president has surrounded himself with a group of incompetents who refuse to speak truth to power.

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Trump and Jefferson

My close encounter with America’s founding fathers exposed Trump, the foundering father

On Independence Day, we took an enlightening tour. And it shone a light on Trump’s America, whose people are at one another’s throats – a world where Trump and JD Vance excel.

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US President Donald Trump has taken issue with Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s statements following the war with Israel.

The art of the lie: Why Trump is taking issue with Iran’s alternative facts

Donald Trump didn’t need to warp intelligence to justify bombing Iran. But he did so because US presidents can’t resist extravagant boasting when it comes to the Middle East.

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‘Mad’ King George III and US President Donald Trump.

Compared to Trump, ‘mad’ King George looks decidedly sane

This is the moment when we find out just how crazy a king Trump is.

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