Maureen Dowd hates the Clintons. She’s disappointed in Obama. She’s ambivalent about Trump; on the one hand, she acknowledges that he looks like a menace to polite society, let alone American politics, but on the other hand, she clearly thinks he’s a clever, charming rogue who would make a much better President than anything in his campaign would lead you to believe.
Think of him as a 21st Century version of Prince Hal in “Henry IV.”
The problem is that Trump is about fifty years too old to be Prince Hal. In addition, when you combine his mistaken belief that he can run the country in the same manner he does his companies with his ignorance of policy and his inability to accept either defeat or criticism, you have a blundering tyrant–a man on golf cart– in the making.
An orange-haired version of Falstaff, perhaps. Henry V at Agincourt, no.