Trump headed for a 'narcissistic explosion of unparalleled force' in new term: columnist

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd thinks that bad things are in store for President Donald Trump's second term.

In a chat with NYT deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy, Dowd expressed fear that Trump now appears to feel invincible and utterly unbound by law.

"The one thing you really don’t want to do with extreme narcissists is give them everything they want, give them all the attention they want, because then you are inviting a narcissistic explosion of unparalleled force, which is what I think we’re heading for," she said.

Dowd went on to say that "the visuals of the inaugural were very disturbing" this year when Trump gave prime seating to tech titans such as X owner Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

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"He always wanted the love of the elites, and he still does," Dowd observed. "One of his top advisers told you and me during the convention that he was most thrilled after the assassination attempt that Mark Zuckerberg called him a badass and got in touch with him."

Dowd also revealed that she recently interviewed actor Martin Short, who told her that he believed Trump's second term would be like the second act of "Cabaret," the notoriously dark musical about the end of Germany's Weimar Republic.