Similar to fellow New York Times columnist Charles Blow, Maureen Dowd crafts many opinion articles focused on the actions of Donald Trump. Dowd utilizes metaphors and an often sardonic tone when discussing Trump. In a recent piece published at the end of February, Dowd uses a snake as a metaphor for Trump and as a method of exposing his other wrongdoings. In the story Dowd created, a young woman takes in a snake with “ tangerine skin [that] was all caked with makeup and [had a] bald spot frosted with the dew.” Soon, the snake takes advantage of her. As the woman dies, she calls out the snake on all of his disturbing actions during his first year as president. Dowd’s sardonic tone shows as she faces the snake who “even with a horrific mass shooting, [needed] Hope Hicks to script [his] empathy.” With her last breaths, the woman continues to tear down Trump’s lack of action towards the gun violence problem, wrongful actions with those in the DACA program, and distasteful actions with other women and porn stars. Dowd’s use of the woman and snake metaphor paired with her sardonic tone effectively shows her readers how she feels towards the current oval office resident. Dowd’s sardonic tone continues in another article further criticizing Trump’s ignorance towards mass shootings in America. After discussing the Sandy Hook shooting, Dowd states, “I gave up. If the sight of slaughtered angels did not dent the nation’s conscience, could anything? We knew that other countries could stem mass killings, homicides and suicides with gun control and gun buybacks. But we didn’t care.” Dowd’s sardonic tone is obvious as she hopelessly concludes that nothing will change the mind of president Donald Trump.