Maureen Dowd
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429 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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Right.
Yeah. But this is what is so crazy about watching Trump because he's got these two sides. So one side is kind of scary because it's authoritarian. He and Elon are trying to undermine the judiciary and Congress. You know, Congress is in charge of these agencies, not these Doge kids. And the press, Elon keeps... saying that the people on X are the press now and legacy press is dead.
So in a way, like Dick Cheney, they're messing with checks and balances. But on the other hand, Trump still has that wacky, kind of funny side where he goes down and takes over the Kennedy Center. And now he wants to give the awards to dead people. He wants to give the awards to Elvis, Babe Ruth, and Pavarotti.
And then he goes down, he starts making this speech about how he thinks they should do cats, which was also George W. Bush's favorite play. Really? Yes.
But Trump says at first he didn't get it, but then he began to look at the beautiful bodies of the men and women in gold tights, and he got mesmerized. He's giving this kind of semi-homoerotic thing. He did say, well, I like the women better. But then he's got that wacky side, so he's redecorating the Oval Office and making it like Mar-a-Lago. He hasn't brought up the gold.
And he put gold leaf around the famous mantelpiece in the Oval Office that you know from TV. And he wants to hang a chandelier and they're trying to talk him out of it. And he won't be talked out of it. You know, he wants to make it like Mar-a-Lago. And, you know, I think that you see it actually, I think in the SNL impersonation, that that wacky humorous side is what makes people less afraid of
Of the authoritarian side.
Who says it? Types?
That was a good one. Well, it's interesting because, you know, I have my sister Peggy on book tour with me and she's a Trump voter and a Republican. And all the brothers, right? Yes, but it's interesting to see things from her point of view. But even she kind of rolls her eyes and says she wishes he wouldn't keep saying he won the election.
She doesn't want him to sell gold sneakers and tacky things when he's president. So, you know, there are a few things she's objecting to.
She said to tell you that she saw one of your early shows and it was the funniest thing she's ever seen. I mean, my family is in love with you because you are not just on one side or the other. You just say it as it is.
Right. Well, so my dad was so excited the night Harry Truman was elected, he stayed up all night. My brother was so excited the night Trump was first elected, he stayed up all night. And Democrats weren't paying attention to what happened here with the working class. And also, they just stopped being any fun.
I mean, they made everyone feel that everything they said and did and every word was wrong. And people don't want to live like that, feeling that everything they do is wrong.
No, I think.
I mean, I think Democrats are just in a coma. They haven't figured out.
Oh, right.
Right.
It was, I think the Democrats just got to have a suffocating persona where you just couldn't do anything or say anything that wasn't to be criticized.
Was that you?
Oh, really? I was going to say, great line. You don't remember it? No. Not at the moment. I'm scared. I'm too scared.
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