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Maureen Dowd New York Times columnist November 23, 2025 — 3.30pm

Step by slimy step, President Donald Trump has made us numb to his crudeness and cruelty.

The solipsistic Trump, with the parasitic tech emperors and the internet itself, is degrading American values, making honour and integrity seem anachronistic.

Still, some moments shock beyond the pale. Whatever the pale is any more.

On Air Force One recently, Trump cut off Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg News journalist pressing him about the release of Epstein files that could further implicate Trump in the lurid mess. Stabbing his finger at her face, the president of the United States snapped at Lucey: “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.”

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt later preposterousl

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