How Maureen Dowd De-Idealized Donald Trump

Maureen  Dowd has been delightfully depressingly debunking Donald for his dealism,
the word with which she neologistically defines the President’s idiosyncratically perverted idealism,

bestowing on him for his most debased depravity an ungentlemanly D for decisions that are not crummier

than pro-Palestinian antics that antisemitically disrupted the perverse universities of Harvard and Columbia.

In “Nothing like this has ever happened in Washington,” NYT, 4/30/25, Maureen Dowd tells Patrick Healy and Carlos Lozada, discussing “100 Days of Trump’s ‘Fake Reality”:

We always have to go back to the idea that people had an image of him as a successful executive because of “The Apprentice.” But actually, he had six bankruptcies and he wasn’t a good executive. His father’s lawyer had to bring a bag of coins or chips to the Atlantic City casino to rescue him once. And so he’s turned the United States government — they’re calling it dealism — into a government of dealism, but he’s undermined what America’s known for, which is our idealism. He’s just sort of mucked up all our values.