“Build a $300 million, 90,000-square-foot gilt ballroom — which will overshadow the central edifice — while the government is shut and people have been thrown out of work; plaster tacky gold all over the Oval; sue everyone willy-nilly; put foes through legal torture; send troops to American cities; shrug off due process and blow alleged drug runners out of the water.
“’We the People’ is quaint. Now we are governed by the whims of one person.
“Congress is adrift. The White House is a shipwreck. Trump is marauding in the Caribbean. James Comey and Letitia James are being forced to walk the plank, and next up could be Jack Smith and Adam Schiff.
“We are awash in nautical metaphors as the president plunders and pillages. He’s a pirate — and not the fun Halloween kind.”
–from Maureen Dowd‘s “Burnin’ Down the House“, 10.25.25.
