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