Dowd: Trump, Having a Bawl in Europe

[Snellius]

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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It’s 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 Murdoch’s 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]

1. Wow, that was to the point.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. I despise MoDo

almost as much as I do Trump.

She was among the enablers for his "election."

[dalton99a]

3. +1. Her irrational hatred of Hillary is sickening and stupid.

and yes, she adored The Donald

[Snellius]

4. -1 She pretty much hates everyone

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]

7. I wish Molly Ivins

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.

[Snellius]

8. Me, too

Some voices are just irreplaceable. Especially like Ivins and Richards. No bullshit straight up with a chaser of sarcasm to wash it down.

[Paladin]

5. Ah, yes. Another failed attempt at journalism by MoDo.

Strictly Peggy Noonan-level, honey.

[LakeArenal]

6. More like: Dump having a brawl in Europe