"Donald Trump used to brag about grabbing women by the crotch. Now he's grabbing the world by its axis.….
Trump thinks more than ever that he can have his way with whatever he wants in whatever way he wants. Whether it's a country, a skyline, the White House. He accosted the People's House, bulldozing the East Wing and a Jackie Kennedy garden, before anyone could even look at the plans. He blows up suspected drug boats, snatched Nicols Maduro out of his bedroom and salivates at the thought of pillaging Greenland and assailing Cuba.……
Cadet Bone Spurs has developed a taste for flaunting our unparalleled military, and there's no one at the Pentagon to curb this new appetite for global violence certainly not the aggro Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth showed again why he is such an unnerving choice to run our military when he blocked the promotion of two Black officers and two women to be one-star Army generals. As The Times scooped, that left a gaggle largely of white men, Hegseth's favorite breed, on the promotion list.
When Trump was a celebrity developer, people laughed at his megalomania in plastering his name everywhere. He grabbed buildings by the crotch. But now that he is president, it's not funny. It's foul.
He forced his name onto the Kennedy Center. He scratched the "U.S." out of the U.S. Institute of Peace and made it the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. He is branding his name on a class of battleships. A multistory banner of his glaring face hangs from the Department of Justice. He tried to have Washington Dulles Airport and New York's Penn Station renamed after him, and is plotting a Trump-style arch across from the Lincoln Memorial so tall it could interfere with Reagan National Airport flight paths.
Trump's handpicked arts commission approved the creation of a commemorative 24-karat gold coin with a scowling picture of the president leaning over a desk with his fists clenched. And King Midas is impelling the Treasury Department to mint a one-dollar gold coin with his visage.
Now, in his frenzied quest for ubiquity, he will deface U.S. currency. The Treasury Department announced on Thursday that Trump would become the first sitting president to have his signature on paper money. Thrusting himself onto legal tender is anything but tender he's shoving the U.S. treasurer's signature off the bills.……
As everyone tries to make sense of this more belligerent Trump, just remember: He's still "Access Hollywood" Trump. He continues his amoral, pseudo-macho posturing just with a bigger stage and the biggest weapons.
You can do anything."
Maureen Dowd, NYT
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