Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
20th January 2025
Trump’s Inauguration Will Be First Attended by Foreign Leaders
Trump ally says first 100 days will be “shock and awe” (Robert Costa/CBS News)
Speaker Johnson: No Better Investment Than Trump’s Deportations
Federal Reserve Withdraws From Global Climate Group As Trump Set To Assume Power
Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way? (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
Trump Meets With GOP Senators as Supporters Cheer His Return on Eve of Inauguration
Make America healthy again? Let’s see if they’re serious (Rep. Chellie Pingree/The Hill)
President Trump Is a Modern-Day Winston Churchill
Epstein’s Cellmate Claims Feds Offered Plea Deal In Exchange For Framing Trump
$Trump, TikTok, And Trea$urie$
Trump reveals his plan to revive TikTok (Christine Mui/Politico)
Trump picks ousted Space Force officer Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier for senior Air Force post
Trump Faces Complex Foreign Policy Challenges Ahead Of Second Term
Trump to Classify Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Trump Reportedly to Launch Sweeping Deportations Day After Inauguration
Trump’s Big Agenda for First 100 Days The mind-readers are out in force today.
Most Americans optimistic about Trump’s return to office: Poll (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
PETTY: ABC’s Mary Bruce Says Crowd Size Concerns, Not Bitter Cold, Driving Trump Inaugural Indoors
Pope Francis says Trump’s immigration raids would be a ‘disgrace’ (Joshua McElwee/Reuters)
Trump’s Cryptocurrency Surges to Become One of the World’s Most Valuable (New York Times)
Trump’s Return Nudges Economists’ Inflation Outlook Higher (Wall Street Journal)
Trump’s New Cryptocurrency Surges
Part 3: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny (Teri Kanefield)
Scores of career State Dept. diplomats resign before Trump’s inauguration (John Hudson/Washington Post) Dread is Trump’s superpower.
Trump Aims for Show of Strength as He Returns to Power (New York Times)
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’ (Emily Yoffe/The Free Press)
MSNBC’s Dowd Compares Trump Supporters to Poor Whites Defending Slavery in the Civil War
Dozens of Senior Diplomats Resign at Trump’s Request
‘Disgrace’: Pope Francis revives feud with Trump just before inauguration (Seb Starcevic/Politico)
What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like?
Can Trump Be a Great President? (Jack Goldsmith/New York Times)
Trump is back with a big agenda, a mandate – and an axe to grind (Politico)
Playbook: Trump’s second coming (Politico)
Day 1: Trump to declare “emergency” in burst of energy orders (Axios)
Nobody knows what Trump is going to do (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)
Donald Trump’s Disruption Is Back (Massimo Calabresi/Time)
Putting an End to Trump Derangement Syndrome
DOGE: Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?) After all, it’s what Democrats would do.
Elon Musk’s DOGE to be sued within minutes of Trump inauguration (Jeff Stein/Washington Post)
Fight Over Truck Broker Contracts Awaits Trump’s Next Move
WashPost: Trump’s Musk-Led DOGE to Face Lawsuit
Of, For, and By the Billionaires (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
AOC on Skipping Inauguration: ‘I Don’t Celebrate Rapists’ (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) Not even Bill Clinton?
DC Swamp Law Firm To Sue Elon Musk’s DOGE Minutes After Trump Inauguration
MLK’s daughter urges Americans to “stay woke” ahead of Trump return (Axios)
Everyone Who Was Supposed To Protect You From This Failed Miserably (Asawin Suebsaeng/Rolling Stone)
MSNBC’s Jon Meacham Compares Trump Inauguration To Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think. (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
Leftists Put Out Directive To “Wear All Black” Today For “National Day Of Mourning”
This Anti-Hegseth Lie Isn’t Even Skin-Deep
NBC Seethes Before Inauguration on DEI Executive Orders, ‘Toddler’ Trump on ‘Fairness’
TIME Magazine Describes Trump’s Second Term As A “Disruption”
Mexico Is All Talk: They Have No Power To Stop Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans
Trump Is Once Again Quitting The Paris Climate Accords (Alexander C. Kaufman/HuffPost) The swine!
Convicted Felon Sworn In as President (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
First lawsuits against Trump admin target DOGE (Politico)
Not Having Fun: Here Were ABC’s Worst Pre-Inauguration Meltdowns, Kisses for Biden
Trump preparing sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 defendants, with commutations for violent offenders: Sources (Good Morning America) Biden just blew the door wide open.
Lawmakers side-eye billionaire CEOs getting prime Trump inauguration seats (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
Google AI Undermines Trump’s Inauguration in Latest Act of Defiance