The New York Times Opinion writer Maureen Dowd has used her Sunday column to paint President Trump as a pirate, the “Orange Cyclone”. His latest offense against the civilized world is his Big Beautiful Ballroom. MoDo calls her column relating this crime “Burnin’ Down The House”. So typical.
And, in typical Maureen Dowd fashion, she begins by praising the “intellect” of former Vice President Al Gore:
Before the orange cyclone hit town, Washington was a far more staid place.
Al Gore loved to host small dinner parties focused on scholarly topics. One dinner was devoted to the meaning of metaphor. “I l-i-i-ke metaphors,” Gore drawled to The Washington Post when he was vice president. “The more complex and arcane the better.”
O-M-gravy, I just had to reboot my brain after that. It is “An Inconvenient Truth” that Al Gore is stoooopid. Can you imagine how tedious his dinner parties were?
The next spewage from MoDo:
What must Gore make of the unsanctioned, ahistoric, abominable destruction of the East Wing by Donald Trump? It’s the most remarkable metaphor we’ve ever seen in the nation’s capital. It’s not complex or arcane. It’s simple and visceral. It slams you in the face — metaphorically speaking.
“He’s saying, ‘I can do whatever the hell I want and you can’t stop me!’” said David Axelrod, who worked in the Obama White House. “In this case, it’s sundering history.
“If you worked in the White House, you have a reverence for every wall of that place. Tattered as it may have been, there was a dignity to it. It was a quietly stately citadel of power in America, not a palace for a mad king. Trump has a manic desire to tear down history and write his own.”
Tattered? Are you bloody, freaking, kidding me? Maybe some people prefer to live amongst the mildew and crumbling facades, but the rest of us fix these things. Because we care about where we live and work.
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