'Stinky, slimy and unrelenting': Trump’s ghastliest blunder defines him (opens in new tab)

says there can be no more fitting metaphor of President Donald Trump’s second term than “trillions of microscopic organisms suck[ing] up all the oxygen and endanger[ing] life around them.”“A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence,” wrote Dowd. “… That essence is slimy, stinky and unrelenting, as reflected in the mass of algae that infests the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.”The Lincoln Memorial, she said, was the “hallowed site w...