Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
24th January 2025
President Donald Trump goes off the rails when asked about California wildfires (ABC 7 Los Angeles)
Trump suggests Ukraine shouldn’t have fought back against Russia (NBC News)
US judge blocks Trump’s order curtailing birthright citizenship (Reuters)
The real reason Trump wants to end birthright citizenship (Washington Poop) As if Eugene Robinson had any clue about what the real reason is that Trump does anything.
Trump birthright citizenship order could leave U.S.-born babies of asylum-seekers ‘stateless,’ attorneys say (NBC News) No, it won’t–they all come from countries where your citizenship is determined by what citizenship your parents have (jus sanguinis).
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship (New York Times).
A Trump movie that Trump hates is going to get a lot more attention, courtesy of the Oscars (Peter Kafka/Business Insider) My, what a surprise.
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
Bishop Mariann Budde angered Donald Trump with her inauguration sermon. Rabbis like me should have such courage. Go badmouth Trump. Doesn’t take any courage at all.
God Clarifies That ‘Wherever Two Or Three Are Gathered In My Name, I Am With Them’ Doesn’t Apply To Episcopalians (Babylon Bee)
The varieties of Trump-hatred
Murkowski announces she’ll oppose Hegseth (Connor O’Brien/Politico) The wicked witch of the north burnishes her RINO credentials.
U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order (Brian Mann/NPR)
Trump tells the world to show him the money (Eli Stokols/Politico)
‘They Should Not Have Been Prosecuted’: Trump Pardons Pro-Lifers Convicted Under FACE Act
What It Means That Republicans Aren’t Acting on the Pete Hegseth Allegations (Bret Stephens/New York Times) It means that they think the allegations bullshit, which they are.
Well, Well, Well: Trump Can’t Lower Egg Prices After All (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
Trump’s First Shot in His War on the ‘Deep State’ (Shane Harris/The Atlantic)
RINO Defections Fail To Derail Hegseth As Senate Confirmation Advances
Trump MemeCoins Set To Be Sued… But To What End?
New Bill Would Codify Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Into Law
Trump Brings Stellantis Jobs To Illinois… Pritzker Takes Credit
ICE agents arrest hundreds of migrants in sanctuary cities, including New York City (abc7NY)
Internet Spams Trump’s ‘DEI Truth’ Tip Line With Porn, ‘Simpsons’ Jokes (Matt Shuham/HuffPost) Proglodyte refusal to grow up is signature.
Portland Church Vows To Protect Illegal Immigrants From Deportation
Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications (Washington Post) The squeals you’re hearing are pigs being kicked away from the trough.
Newsom plans to crash Trump’s LA wildfire visit (Christopher Cadelago/Politico) I’d love to see him get arrested by the Secret Service.
“Deportation Flights Begin”: White House Announces First Jumbo Jet Of Illegals Departs America
Elon Musk doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt (Zack Beauchamp/Vox) It’s not about what’s fair, it’s about the Hunt for Heretics and Sinners.
Trump’s budget pick, Russ Vought, is starting to upend Washington (Washington Post)
Trump’s gusher of misleading economic statistics at Davos (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)
How Trump decided to kick off his second term with blanket Jan. 6 pardon (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post) Which is why he was elected.
Biden embraced diversity efforts. Trump has moved to demolish them. (Joe Davidson/Washington Post) Which is why he was elected.
Trump Bars Transgender Women From U.S. Prisons for Female Inmates (New York Times)
How Trump Will Fail – After a four-year hiatus, we are once again compelled to go spelunking … (David Brooks/New York Times) David Brooks is just an anti-Trump proglodyte after all.
Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times) Couldn’t happen too soon.
Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast (Jason Wilson/The Guardian) To The Guardian, all Christian doctrines are ‘extremist’.
How Republicans Learned to Excuse Political Violence (Will Saletan/The Bulwark) By constantly losing to Democrat political violence.
Trump’s DEI orders may halt progress for disabled workers (Emily Peck/Axios)
Rutgers Center Cancels Conference in Response to Trump DEI Orders (Jessica Blake/Inside Higher Ed)
Watch: Davos Globalists Admit “We Have Lost To Trump”
Trump Leaves Pompeo, Hook and Bolton Unprotected (Wall Street Journal)
The Border Debate Is Over. Dems Lost. (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
Trump Drive to Cut Safety Net Could Hit His Voters (Jason DeParle/New York Times)
Trump enlists attorney general to investigate Biden administration (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
Judge bars Rhodes, other Oath Keepers from entering DC without court permission (Ella Lee/The Hill)
Musk Tells a ‘Joke’ (William Kristol/The Bulwark) But not as much of a joke as the Kristol Krew.
Donald Trump is not waiting for RFK Jr. – he has already started his war on public health (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.
CNN Panel Imagines Images of Crying Mothers to Battle Trump On Birthright Citizenship
Charlamagne Demands Dems Stop ‘Frolicking With Fascist Bull****,’ Treat Trump Like Hitler
The Markets Are Ignoring Everything Trump Said To Focus Just On One Partial Quote
Trump returns – and so does his astounding ignorance (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)
Somebody Call Daniel Dale! CNN and Others Have No Idea What a ‘Treaty’ Is
Trump Admin Moves to Expel Biden’s ‘Paroled’ Migrants
Rhode Island judge specializing in immigration law resigns after FBI raids office (Fox News)
Two Words and a World of Trouble (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
Nazispalooza: The Left’s Third Reich Mania Collapses Into Comedy
In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree. (New York Times)
ABC ‘News’: Ana Navarro Claims Trump Rolled Back Interracial Marriages
PBS Worries Trump May Impose ‘Government Line’ With Tech Supporters
Clever Immigrant Evades Trump’s Deportation Efforts By Not Raping, Murdering, Stealing, Or Entering Country Illegally (Babylon Bee)
Fauci Stripped of Government Security Protection (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times) Stripped!
Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed and on the Defensive (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)
DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
Freed Jan. 6 Convicts Are Back on the Street and Ready to Help Trump (Wall Street Journal)
Federal Agencies Erase DEI Guidance From Websites