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Maureen Dowd

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Op-Ed columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, @nytopinion . Author: "Year of Voting Dangerously," "Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk," and “Are Men Necessary?”

Washington, DC
Joined July 2009
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
When Trump walked through the doors, Walter Reed had a stellar reputation. As he walks out 72 hours later, its reputation is in tatters. There's nothing Trump can't ruin.
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4 years
Remember that time Rush Limabugh called a Georgetown student a slut? Yeah, that guy was just festooned with a medal of freedom by the nation’s chief anti-bullying advocate.
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4 years
I’ve seen the Giuliani moment in Borat 2. It’s even wilder than it sounds. Beyond cringe.
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3 years
Went up to Vermont to interview Bernie.
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4 years
“It’s a risky business. But that’s my style, Maureen.” — Dr. Fauci, ladies and gentleman.
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7 years
One of these men is honest, patient, humble and has been called America's straightest arrow. The other's president.
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6 years
Twenty-seven years later, will we once more have to watch a woman be mauled by the Republicans on the senate judiciary committee?
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3 years
It’s like he’s Pazuzu, roaming around, looking for a host body.
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3 years
I’m glad my Dad isn’t around to see that video of a rampaging horde of conspiracy theorists and white supremacists crushing a Capitol cop in a door like a trash compactor.
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4 years
IMO Brayden Harrington was the best moment in modern convention history. And I’ve been doing this since 84.
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4 years
Yo, @jack , what are you waiting for?
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
....have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and....
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4 years
🍆 🍆 🍆 💦🚂 👻
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Maureen Dowd
6 years
Kavanaugh’s testimony: a cri de coeur that has come to define the Trump era — the sound of howling white men who think things are being unjustly taken from them.
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6 years
Maybe Barack Obama can make a Netflix show about how he time traveled 20 years into the future, when we’re ready for him.
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
In the same breath, Trump says that Kamala Harris, who has been California AG and Senator, is “not competent.” But Ivanka? Totally ready.
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
Trump in New Hampshire: "I want to see the first woman president also... They're are all saying, 'We want Ivanka.'"
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6 years
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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4 years
I’m with Kevin at dinner now and he says thanks. I’m glad you’re again reading the paper you once called “a great, great American jewel.”
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Donald J. Trump
4 years
Just read the best Maureen Dowd column, in the New York Times, EVER (although she treated me great before politics), but it was written by her brother, Kevin. Someone in the News Media should hire her wonderful, talented, and very smart brother!
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3 years
One time I asked him about political courage, after he'd stood up to the Bush II White House. "Once you've gone to a state convention with Liz Taylor wearing a tiger-striped jumpsuit," he replied, "you're never afraid of anything again."
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3 years
RIP John Warner, the white-haired patrician senator straight from central casting who bucked his party when he thought it was wrong and earned wide respect across the political spectrum for his independence and integrity.
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2 years
Donald Trump, without a shred of self-awareness, patriotism or guilt, makes for a uniquely American monster.
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8 years
@realDonaldTrump flames me and cuffs my former researcher @alxthomp on same day. Birth of a new conspiracy theory?
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6 years
When a Turkish autocrat, Wall Street bankers, a top Hollywood agent and Lindsey Graham all think you’ve gone to the dark side, you know you’re in trouble.
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8 years
The Clinton Contamination
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4 years
Do you feel better with Jared's "Slim Suit crowd" at the helm?
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7 years
When Dick Cheney disagrees with your executive order banning refugees you know you have gone too far
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2 years
The swat, for your enjoyment.
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5 years
Live shot of “An Evening with the Clintons”
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4 years
Fun Fact: I once interviewed for a job with Bob Woodward. He didn’t hire me.
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Maureen Dowd
3 years
Democrats are back to trashing reporters after four years spent lionizing them. Normalcy has returned to Washington!
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6 years
Let’s get Trump Baby in the Thanksgiving parade, right between the Pillsbury Doughboy and the Angry Birds!
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
Trump traits, via @maggieNYT & @peterbakernyt —profound need for personal praise —propensity to blame others —lack of human empathy —penchant for rewriting history —disregard for expertise —distortion of facts —impatience with scrutiny or criticism
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
On Thurs Feb. 27 Trump couldn't be bothered to -- or didnt want to -- pay attention to what was in that briefing. From my column that week, here's what he was focused on that Thursday instead:
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Maureen Dowd
1 year
Is King Rupert losing dominion over his dominion because of Dominion?
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Maureen Dowd
7 years
Thank you, President Trump, for teaching us what values we cherish.
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7 years
“I attack men far more than I attack women,” Donald Trump once told me. “And I attack them tougher.” But is it true?
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Maureen Dowd
3 years
Grab a Rolling Rock, a shot of Jame-o, and a hoagie and read what Kate Winslet has to say about last night's finale and her transformation into the jawn Mare.
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Maureen Dowd
7 years
Breaking the law in Saudi Arabia in 2010.
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Maureen Dowd
6 years
You deserve a lot more than the craven, greedy N.R.A. puppets in Congress. Keep inspiring us, @Emma4Change . We’re totally behind you.
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Maureen Dowd
5 years
The classiest and most talented. Once, when some male pols were giving me a hard time, he wrote me a letter telling me not to get overwhelmed: “Just remember, these are all the same guys you went to high school with.”
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Maureen Dowd
8 years
Best Freudian Slip: Hillary saying that we need to "fat-check" Donald
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
The Suburban Housewives of America must read this article.
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4 years
A beautifully written horror story by ⁦ @MaraGay ⁩:
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Maureen Dowd
7 years
Trump deserves credit for teaching us about Emoluments Clause, for crosswords, Jeopardy & coming Supreme Court Case
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Maureen Dowd
5 years
Dick Cheney once criticized a negative story I wrote about Clarence Thomas by saying I was "out to lunch." I recommend @GhostPanther ’s new movie, "Vice," for those who want to see how out-to-lunch Cheney was.
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Maureen Dowd
8 years
The green light at the end of the dock that haunted Gatsby and inspired Fitzgerald.
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Maureen Dowd
7 years
my talented Times colleagues, Gwen Ifill and Michael Kelly, during the 1992 campaign in a photo taken by @OlivierRoyant
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4 years
"The reality is, this is something that, you know, can spread." — Don Jr. to Tucker Carlson last night.
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4 years
👀 👀
@AnnCoulter
Ann Coulter
4 years
COVID gave Trump a chance to be a decent, compassionate human being (or pretending to be). But he couldn't even do that.
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Maureen Dowd
3 years
Amtrak Joe!!!!
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Shawn McCreesh
3 years
On the Amtrak that just pulled into Wilmington, the whole train erupts into applause.
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4 years
The amazing ⁦ @Olivianuzzi ⁩ does it again.
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4 years
Trump in New Hampshire: "I want to see the first woman president also... They're are all saying, 'We want Ivanka.'"
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
As  @JonKarl reports, when Mulvaney took acting CoS job he suggested WH staff read "A First Rate Madness," about mental illness and leadership. What will he recommend to staffers now that he's off to Northern Ireland? How about "Say Nothing?"
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Maureen Dowd
8 years
Trump evidently has gotten hold of Reince's phone while he was in bathroom
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Reince Priebus
8 years
Flying to Dallas now with @realDonaldTrump ...Reports of discord are pure fiction. Great events lined up all over Texas. Rs will win in Nov!
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Maureen Dowd
7 years
The first three websites Mark Cuban reads in the morning: Memeorandum, Hoopshype, and Techmeme.
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
"Trump has also become consumed, once again, with leaks from the White House, demanding that officials find and prosecute those responsible for information getting out about his trip to the bunker beneath the White House." Via @maggieNYT & @anniekarni
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Maureen Dowd
3 years
walls closing in, wheels falling off, etc. etc.
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Donald J. Trump
3 years
I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!
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Maureen Dowd
3 years
The first time I went to 21, I accidentally dressed exactly like the waitstaff and everyone kept trying to order martinis from me as I walked to the ladies room.
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6 years
Welcome to the final Foxification of the White House. Roger Ailes would be so proud, if he were still alive and harassing women.
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Maureen Dowd
3 years
My sister’s Waterford Capitol...
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Maureen Dowd
7 years
More great @realDonaldTrump reader art from Daniel Pagan via Shirley Madonna
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5 years
Matthew Whitaker would hardly qualify to be a dean at Trump University, much less the nation’s top cop.
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Maureen Dowd
6 years
Mission accomplished. (📸 by @hlswift_ )
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Maureen Dowd
6 years
Republicans are accustomed to racism from their leaders. They just prefer it to be more subtle.
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2 years
From harassing women in the federal office he headed to stripping women of the right to control their own bodies. Clarence the Cruel’s radical reign.
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5 years
Emilia Clarke said the main thing she is going to be happy about when #GameofThrones ends is that she will no longer have to study and speak Dothraki: "There’s a scene in the final season where I say a lot, in a lot of languages, that was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do."
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Maureen Dowd
6 years
I'm shivering in gratitude just looking at the intrepid NYPD near Times Square getting ready for the coldest New Year's Eve in decades.
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11 months
Let’s Make America Great Again — by getting Trump out of politics.
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Maureen Dowd
7 years
Unlike our president, this man drinks and he knows things. You'd better not die, Tyrion.
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Maureen Dowd
4 years
Ok
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Comfortably Smug
4 years
@maureendowd This was a fantastic interview. The next time you interview @elonmusk could you please ask him to begin work on making Westworld real? The people cry out for him to make Westworld real.
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Maureen Dowd
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Jimmy Carter built a lot of the furniture in his house, including his own bed. (Photo by Dustin Chambers).
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4 years
Dianna Rigg, from Queen of kicks to Queen of Thorns, RIP.
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6 years
One of the favorite Irish sayings of my mom, a John McCain fan, was: “God bless the corpse that the rain falls on.”
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Damn, he actually did it.
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