DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Maxine Waters runs around the U.S. Capitol these days — moving fast in heels as she balances back-to-back television interviews, speeches, hearings and hugs from millennials who have called her ‘Auntie Maxine’ to celebrate her feisty style.
It is an odd new celebrity for a 78-year-old Washington fixture who has logged more than 25 years in the House, representing Los Angeles, from gritty but gentrifying Inglewood to largely white, working-class Torrance. But in President Trump, her sharp tongue has found its perfect target, and Auntie Maxine has gone viral.
‘Trump was just so outrageous, so disrespectful, such a bully and dangerous for this country, I decided, *You know what? I’m taking the gloves off and I’m going to step out,*’ Ms. Waters said. ‘I was going to not only challenge him but encourage others to see him for what he is: basically a bully, an egotistical maniac, a liar and someone who did not need to be president.’
Ms. Waters never seems to tire of pressing this case. She has labeled Mr. Trump a ‘disgusting, poor excuse of a man.’ She has called Mr. Trump and his associates ‘the Kremlin Klan’ and began calling for his impeachment soon after he took office.
In turn, the president’s defenders have labeled her ignorant, an embarrassment, ‘Dirty Waters’ and ‘Crazy Maxie.’ Ken Boehm, the chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a right-leaning, ethics-in-government group, called her a grandstander.”
-Yamiche Alcindor, “‘Auntie Maxine’ Waters Goes After Trump and Goes Viral,” The New York Times onlline, July 7, 2017