Maureen Dowd: Trump is more about droit du seigneur than noblesse oblige, he feels entitled to whatever he wants. Even before Trump blasphemously interloped on to the Kennedy Center’s name, Trump Culture War Enforcer Ric Grenell had dictated that all National Symphony Orchestra concerts begin with the national anthem. Trump is an anarchic toddler, constantly causing upheaval across the globe, transgressing and remaking everything in his helter-skelter image. But in the new New York Times/Siena University poll, a sizeable majority said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) had gone too far. – This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Source: The Irish Times January 25, 2026 13:32 UTC