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Trump is rootin’ for Putin

It was a sickening spectacle. The man who tried to upend democracy bullying the man who is fighting for democracy, writes Maureen Dowd.

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Financial Review

Maureen Dowd

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

While Zelensky keeps the David versus Goliath dream alive, the President of the United States is wedded to a demented dream of a troika of strongmen.

previous day 8

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

While Zelensky keeps the David versus Goliath dream alive, the President of the United States is wedded to a demented dream of a troika of strongmen.

previous day 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

While Zelensky keeps the David versus Goliath dream alive, the President of the United States is wedded to a demented dream of a troika of strongmen.

previous day 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

Trump, struggling with reality, tried to impose his own on Zelensky

While Zelensky keeps the David versus Goliath dream alive, the President of the United States is wedded to a demented dream of a troika of strongmen.

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

America’s 236-year-old institutions don’t look up to the challenge of defending themselves from this emperor of chaos.

23.02.2025 7

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

America’s 236-year-old institutions don’t look up to the challenge of defending themselves from this emperor of chaos.

23.02.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

America’s 236-year-old institutions don’t look up to the challenge of defending themselves from this emperor of chaos.

23.02.2025 8

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

Emperor Donald can do whatever he wants to whomever he wants

America’s 236-year-old institutions don’t look up to the challenge of defending themselves from this emperor of chaos.

23.02.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

“A big mouth doesn’t make a big man”: As the US president and his billionaire offsider exercise their “masculine maximalism”, they’d do...

17.02.2025 8

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

“A big mouth doesn’t make a big man”: As the US president and his billionaire offsider exercise their “masculine maximalism”, they’d do...

17.02.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

“A big mouth doesn’t make a big man”: As the US president and his billionaire offsider exercise their “masculine maximalism”, they’d do...

17.02.2025 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes

“A big mouth doesn’t make a big man”: As the US president and his billionaire offsider exercise their “masculine maximalism”, they’d do...

17.02.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk are emotional time bombs, lashing out in the crudest and cruellest ways

To elect one emperor of chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the government is simply asking for it.

09.02.2025 6

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk are emotional time bombs, lashing out in the crudest and cruellest ways

To elect one emperor of chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the government is simply asking for it.

09.02.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk are emotional time bombs, lashing out in the crudest and cruellest ways

To elect one emperor of chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the government is simply asking for it.

09.02.2025 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump and Musk are emotional time bombs, lashing out in the crudest and cruellest ways

To elect one emperor of chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the government is simply asking for it.

09.02.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s a Luddite, but his blossoming tech bromance makes perfect sense

Suddenly, Trump’s the saviour of TikTok teens and crypto bros while the lords of the cloud have turned into sycophantic courtiers. How did we get...

27.01.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s a Luddite, but his blossoming tech bromance makes perfect sense

Suddenly, Trump’s the saviour of TikTok teens and crypto bros while the lords of the cloud have turned into sycophantic courtiers. How did we get...

27.01.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s a Luddite, but his blossoming tech bromance makes perfect sense

Suddenly, Trump’s the saviour of TikTok teens and crypto bros while the lords of the cloud have turned into sycophantic courtiers. How did we get...

27.01.2025 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s a Luddite, but his blossoming tech bromance makes perfect sense

Suddenly, Trump’s the saviour of TikTok teens and crypto bros while the lords of the cloud have turned into sycophantic courtiers. How did we get...

27.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Trump, the returned colossus, brings a bitter chill to Washington

The second inauguration, just four years after his acolytes tried to overthrow the government and steal an election, will be a difficult moment for US...

20.01.2025 7

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump, the returned colossus, brings a bitter chill to Washington

The second inauguration, just four years after his acolytes tried to overthrow the government and steal an election, will be a difficult moment for US...

20.01.2025 7

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump, the returned colossus, brings a bitter chill to Washington

For many moons over the Potomac River, the protocol for inaugurations has been as immutable and as dignified as the words of presidents engraved on...

20.01.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Pious Carter and profane Trump were very different, but not in every way

Both the late Jimmy Carter and the resurgent Donald Trump prided themselves on being outsiders and breaking norms, and they both were suffused with...

13.01.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Pious Carter and profane Trump were very different, but not in every way

13.01.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Pious Carter and profane Trump were very different, but not in every way

13.01.2025 8

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Pious Carter and profane Trump were very different, but not in every way

Both the late Jimmy Carter and the resurgent Donald Trump prided themselves on being outsiders and breaking norms, and they both were suffused with...

13.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s ‘manosphere’ White House takes shape. It’s a searing affront to women

Donald Trump proclaimed that he would be the protector of women. That seems to involve anointing creeps from whom women need protection. If you...

25.11.2024 4

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s ‘manosphere’ White House takes shape. It’s a searing affront to women

Donald Trump proclaimed that he would be the protector of women. That seems to involve anointing creeps from whom women need protection. If you...

25.11.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s ‘manosphere’ White House takes shape. It’s a searing affront to women

Donald Trump proclaimed that he would be the protector of women. That seems to involve anointing creeps from whom women need protection. If you...

25.11.2024 5

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s ‘manosphere’ White House takes shape. It’s a searing affront to women

Donald Trump proclaimed that he would be the protector of women. That seems to involve anointing creeps from whom women need protection. If you...

25.11.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Forget Melania, Musk’s all set to be Trump’s ‘first buddy’

I was feeling sad that Melania may not care to come play first lady in the second Trump administration. She visited the East Wing only a couple of...

21.11.2024 4

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Forget Melania, Musk’s all set to be Trump’s ‘first buddy’

I was feeling sad that Melania may not care to come play first lady in the second Trump administration. She visited the East Wing only a couple of...

21.11.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Forget Melania, Musk’s all set to be Trump’s ‘first buddy’

I was feeling sad that Melania may not care to come play first lady in the second Trump administration. She visited the East Wing only a couple of...

21.11.2024 3

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Forget Melania, Musk’s all set to be Trump’s ‘first buddy’

I was feeling sad that Melania may not care to come play first lady in the second Trump administration. She visited the East Wing only a couple of...

21.11.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Melania’s no show at Oval Office an ominous omen

The incoming first lady skipped the traditional handover meeting with the Bidens – another sign that the Trumps are going to do any damn thing they...

14.11.2024 3

Financial Review

Maureen Dowd

How Trump exposed the Democrats’ mistaken identity politics

Some Democrats are finally waking up and realising that woke is broke. Donald Trump won a majority of white women and remarkable numbers of black...

11.11.2024 3

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

How Trump exposed the Democrats’ mistaken identity politics

Some Democrats are finally waking up and realising that woke is broke. Donald Trump won a majority of white women and remarkable numbers of black...

11.11.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

How Trump exposed the Democrats’ mistaken identity politics

Some Democrats are finally waking up and realising that woke is broke. Donald Trump won a majority of white women and remarkable numbers of black...

11.11.2024 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

How Trump exposed the Democrats’ mistaken identity politics

Some Democrats are finally waking up and realising that woke is broke. Donald Trump won a majority of white women and remarkable numbers of black...

11.11.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Democrats learnt the hard way that woke is broke

Democrats don’t understand why they turned off so many working-class voters over the decades, and why they developed such disdain toward their once...

10.11.2024 6

Financial Review

Maureen Dowd

It’s crazy, but we must accept these truths about Trump and America

I can no longer count the number of times I’ve counted out Donald Trump. Every time, what I thought would stagger him made him stronger. I assumed...

07.11.2024 4

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

It’s crazy, but we must accept these truths about Trump and America

I can no longer count the number of times I’ve counted out Donald Trump. Every time, what I thought would stagger him made him stronger. I assumed...

07.11.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

It’s crazy, but we must accept these truths about Trump and America

I can no longer count the number of times I’ve counted out Donald Trump. Every time, what I thought would stagger him made him stronger. I assumed...

07.11.2024 5

The Age

Maureen Dowd

It’s crazy, but we must accept these truths about Trump and America

I can no longer count the number of times I’ve counted out Donald Trump. Every time, what I thought would stagger him made him stronger. I assumed...

07.11.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

I asked Trump a question about violence. His answer was honest, and chilling

In the midst of the furore over Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and his manipulative attempts to cover it up and figure out if he should...

05.11.2024 4

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

I asked Trump a question about violence. His answer was honest, and chilling

In the midst of the furore over Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and his manipulative attempts to cover it up and figure out if he should...

05.11.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

I asked Trump a question about violence. His answer was honest, and chilling

In the midst of the furore over Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and his manipulative attempts to cover it up and figure out if he should...

05.11.2024 5

The Age

Maureen Dowd

I asked Trump a question about violence. His answer was honest, and chilling

In the midst of the furore over Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and his manipulative attempts to cover it up and figure out if he should...

05.11.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd