The Macho World of Trump's Turbulent Sew Circle

Maureen Dowd, offering perspectives from Washington.

The unease I felt towards the Trump administration deepened when they decided to abandon a Biden-era initiative aimed at cutting down salmonella cases in poultry.

So aside from heightening our anxiety, the Trump crew seems intent on risking our health too.

It has been yet another topsy-turvy week in the nation's capital.

In the midst of an economic crisis he helped create, a fresh Times/Siena survey revealed that even on matters like immigration, President Trump found himself out of favor, as voters recoiled from his preferred style of governance: excessive reach.

How did the general public interpret his opening 100 days? Uncertain and daunting, which were hardly the comforting vibes he aimed to project with his exaggeratedly macho conduct, action of the manosphere archetype, and his showboating circle of UFC fighters and wrestlers.

Gerald Seib wrote in The Wall Street Journal that President Trump is substituting a nagging nanny state with a domineering daddy state, reliant on the loyalty and reverence of his subordinates.

This dialogue about traditional gender roles brings us back to a bygone era where women were deemed biologically incapable of holding high office. For generations, they were considered too emotional and inconsistent to manage world affairs.