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

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

Donald Trump is obsessively terraforming the White House to be an extension of his attention-crazed id.

sunday 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

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

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

Donald Trump is obsessively terraforming the White House to be an extension of his attention-crazed id.

sunday 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

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

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

Donald Trump is obsessively terraforming the White House to be an extension of his attention-crazed id.

sunday 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

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

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

Donald Trump is obsessively terraforming the White House to be an extension of his attention-crazed id.

sunday 9

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

03.08.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

03.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

03.08.2025 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

03.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

27.07.2025 8

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

27.07.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

27.07.2025 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

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

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.

27.07.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

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...

20.07.2025 8

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

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...

20.07.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

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...

20.07.2025 8

The Age

Maureen Dowd

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...

20.07.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

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.

13.07.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

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.

13.07.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

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.

13.07.2025 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

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.

13.07.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

My close encounter with our founding fathers exposed Trump, our 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...

06.07.2025 8

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

My close encounter with our founding fathers exposed Trump, our 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...

06.07.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

My close encounter with our founding fathers exposed Trump, our 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...

06.07.2025 9

The Age

Maureen Dowd

My close encounter with our founding fathers exposed Trump, our 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...

06.07.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

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...

29.06.2025 2

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

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...

29.06.2025 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

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...

29.06.2025 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

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...

29.06.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

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

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

22.06.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

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

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

22.06.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

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

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

22.06.2025 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

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

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

22.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Like Frankenstein on steroids. Musk and Trump both created monsters

The spectacular falling out between the US president and the world’s richest man has been both jaw dropping and entirely predictable.

08.06.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Like Frankenstein on steroids. Musk and Trump both created monsters

The spectacular falling out between the US president and the world’s richest man has been both jaw dropping and entirely predictable.

08.06.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Like Frankenstein on steroids, Musk and Trump both created monsters

The spectacular falling out between the US president and the world’s richest man has been both jaw dropping and entirely predictable.

08.06.2025 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Like Frankenstein on steroids. Musk and Trump both created monsters

The spectacular falling out between the US president and the world’s richest man has been both jaw dropping and entirely predictable.

08.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Elon Musk moved fast in Washington, but broke only his reputation

At the end of their highly publicised bromance, all Elon Musk and Donald Trump have to show for it was a black eye and a gold key.

01.06.2025 8

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Elon Musk moved fast in Washington, but broke only his reputation

At the end of their highly publicised bromance, all Elon Musk and Donald Trump have to show for it was a black eye and a gold key.

01.06.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Elon Musk moved fast in Washington, but broke only his reputation

At the end of their highly publicised bromance, all Elon Musk and Donald Trump have to show for it was a black eye and a gold key.

01.06.2025 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Elon Musk moved fast in Washington, but broke only his reputation

At the end of their highly publicised bromance, all Elon Musk and Donald Trump have to show for it was a black eye and a gold key.

01.06.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Trump promised to help American families prosper, then focused solely on his own

In a galaxy long ago and far away, there was shame attached to selling your office. But as the past week has shown, the president is a pro at quid pro...

25.05.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump promised to help American families prosper, then focused solely on his own

In a galaxy long ago and far away, there was shame attached to selling your office. But as the past week has shown, the president is a pro at quid pro...

25.05.2025 50

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump promised to help American families prosper, then focused solely on his own

In a galaxy long ago and far away, there was shame attached to selling your office. But as the past week has shown, the president is a pro at quid pro...

25.05.2025 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump promised to help American families prosper, then focused solely on his own

In a galaxy long ago and far away, there was shame attached to selling your office. But as the past week has shown, the president is a pro at quid pro...

25.05.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Selective truths on Biden decline were like Trump’s alternative facts

The former president and his inner circle created an alternate universe that they sold to the public – the sort of unreality that his Republican foe...

18.05.2025 10

Financial Review

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s macho crew, it turns out, is a vicious little sewing circle

One hundred days into Trump’s second term, cracks are appearing in the testosterone-filled White House manosphere.

28.04.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s macho crew, it turns out, is a vicious little sewing circle

One hundred days into Trump’s second term, cracks are appearing in the testosterone-filled White House manosphere.

28.04.2025 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s macho crew, it turns out, is a vicious little sewing circle

One hundred days into Trump’s second term, cracks are appearing in the testosterone-filled White House manosphere.

28.04.2025 30

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s macho crew, it turns out, is a vicious little sewing circle

One hundred days into Trump’s second term, cracks are appearing in the testosterone-filled White House manosphere.

28.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

In the biggest job in the world, Trump is looking like a very small man

As everyone else gets yippy – JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon warned of a recession – the president seems to be enjoying centre stage, toying with the...

13.04.2025 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd