Behold Donald of Deliria!

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Behold Donald of Deliria!
Jan. 17, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET
By Maureen Dowd

There’s a great scene in “Lawrence of Arabia” when Peter O’Toole’s Lawrence comes back from battle and meets with Gen. Edmund Allenby, his British superior in Cairo.

The bookish Lawrence tells Allenby he executed an Arab ally with his pistol and, “There was something about it I didn’t like.”

Allenby reassures him that his distaste is to be expected.

“No, something else,” Lawrence explains. “I enjoyed it.”

Donald Trump was always an impresario of chaos. He told me that when violence broke out at his rallies, it added sizzle to the proceedings. He seemed proud of the anarchy and bloodshed in his name on Jan. 6.

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