Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
28th January 2025
DOJ fires officials who worked on Jack Smith’s Trump investigation (Washington Poop) What goes around comes around.
Trump’s DOJ firings are designed to deter future investigations, former officials say (NBC News) Former officials say! That provies it! (One hopes that it will deter future lawfare witch-hunts against people the regime doesn’t like.)
Key career officials at Justice Department reassigned to different positions, AP sources say (Associated Press)
Justice Department fires more than a dozen key officials on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team (Fox News) My schadenfreude floweth over.
White House pauses federal grant, loan other assistance programs (Reuters) The gravy train stoppeth.
Playbook: Trump’s massive power grab (Politico) How is this a ‘power grab’? He’s got the power. Every President does. He’s just choosing to use it, which no other President since Reagan has done.
All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House (CNN) The problem with an Imperial Presidency is that sometimes the other side gets to pick the Emperor, and they you’re in trouble.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion (Washington Poop) Confusion among the pigs at the trough, perhaps.
Federal agents in immigration operations told to be camera-ready as thousands arrested (CNN)
Trump got what he wanted with Colombia. But his tactics could come back to bite him. (Politico) On va voir.
Latin America will not put up with Trump’s new Monroe Doctrine (The Hill) They won’t have much to say about it.
JD Vance Offers the Worst Defense Yet of Trump’s January 6 Pardons (The New Republic)
Democrats move to condemn Trump pardons of violent Jan. 6 defendants (Politico) My, what a surprise.
Trump to reinstate service members discharged for not getting COVID-19 vaccine (Fox News)
Trump Puts Latin America and the Middle East on Notice No more Mister Nice Guy.
The Deportation Nightmare Begins (Paul Krugman) Good idea–let’s deport Krugman. (But who would take him?)
Why Trump won’t be deporting “millions” of criminals (Russell Contreras/Axios)
Elon Musk Is Giving Europeans a Headache (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
Democrats flip the script, eyeing debt limit to block Trump’s agenda (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
Trump Says He ‘Immediately Halted’ Hiring Of New IRS Agents
LA Times owner Soon-Shiong finds his MAGA whisperer (Max Tani/Semafor) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Trump’s Flaming Turd of an Argument for Ending Birthright Citizenship (Garrett Epps/Washington Monthly) Still waiting for these guys to grow up.
‘X’ Sex-Marker On US Passports Scrapped, Outstanding Applications Suspended
Trump, Vance vault FEMA overhaul high on agenda (Andrew Freedman/Axios)
Trump’s Lumber Tariffs and Disaster Recovery (Wall Street Journal)
“Blood, Feces, & Terror”: The Trump Pardons Trigger Judicial Rage
ABC, CBS, NBC Give Trump’s Pardons 15x More Time than Biden’s My, what a surprise.
Top US Firms Abandoned DEI Before Trump’s Return Because it’s stupid.
Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas Military to Join U.S. Border Patrol
Trump Just Broke the Law. Blatantly. And He Might Get Away With It. (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)
In Exacting Retribution, Trump Aims at the Future as Well as the Past (New York Times)
Democrats Introduce Resolution Condemning Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons (HuffPost)
Charles Koch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump tax breaks (Ed Pilkington/The Guardian)
Oil Companies Embrace Trump, but Not ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ (Rebecca F. Elliott/New York Times)
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water (New York Times)
Daily ICE Arrests Under Trump Already Surpassing Biden-Era Numbers
Chief Corruption Prosecutor Resigns From Justice Dept. (New York Times)
Hegseth Refers to 2 Forts by Old Confederate Names
Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics (David E. Sanger/New York Times) “If they put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of theirs in the morgue.”
GO AWAY: Paul Krugman Struggling Post-NYT, Cries ‘Trump Wants You to Die’
Donald Trump Ignores Federal Laws As He Moves To Reshape Washington (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)
Trump Rocks Latin America as Leaders Adjust to Deportations, Tariff Threats
Trans Inmate Challenges Trump’s 2-Sexes Executive Order
Colombia to Send Planes to Honduras to Pick Up Migrants
CNN, MSNBC Bemoan Deportation of People Whose ‘Only Crime’ Is Entering US Illegally Still a crime.
Dems Rip Trump for Not ‘Immediately’ Lowering Food Prices And how exactly is he supposed to do that? Immediately?
DOJ fires officials involved in Trump prosecutions by special counsel Jack Smith (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
Trump administration fires DOJ officials who worked on criminal investigations of the president (NBC News) There’s an echo in here.
BETRAYAL: Soros-Controlled Station Unmasks Vehicles of ‘Undercover’ ICE Agents in San Jose
US: Order Halting Foreign Aid Work Puts Lives at Risk (Human Rights Watch)
We All Lose in Trump’s War Against Trans Americans (Giselle Donnelly/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew goes full Woke at last.
Polls show views souring on Elon Musk as Trump’s wingman (Aaron Blake/Washington Post)
House Opens Investigation Into Four Sanctuary Cities
Trump rescinded a half-century of environmental rules. Here’s what that could mean. (Dylan Matthews/Vox) More personal freedom, for a start.
Top USAID career staff placed on immediate leave (Politico)
Trump’s Victory Over Colombia Now Looks Less Clear Cut (Eric Martin/Bloomberg)
Scott Bessent Eclipses Buttigieg To Become Highest-Ranking Gay Official in Nation’s History That Trump is SUCH a homophobe….
DOJ Official Resigns Over Move to Probe Sanctuary Cities
‘It will kill people’: Chaos, confusion after Trump halts US foreign aid (Politico)
Trump Fires 3 Democrats on Privacy Oversight Board
CNN Analyst: Trump Deporting Those Who ‘Don’t Look Like the Trump Family’ Works for me.
Coalition of Jewish groups say they’re leaving X over Musk’s behavior (Russell Contreras/Axios)
Trump’s two-by-four foreign policy gets early wins (Axios)
Google’s Donald Trump-Inspired Move Has Critics Navigating Outrage (Lee Moran/HuffPost)
Congressional Republicans’ coming war on poor people (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)
MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart Frets Trump Would Take Citizenship from Blacks Which, of course, can’t happen.
Mette Frederiksen’s diplomatic dash to save Greenland from Trump (Ali Walker/Politico)
The MAGA terror has begun (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
Make America 1897 Again – Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg and MAGA’s new Gilded Age. (New York Times) Those were good times.
Trump’s fake crime wave (Rebecca Crosby/Popular Information)
Trump Threatens Tariffs Over Immigration, Drugs and Greenland (New York Times)
The Strategy Behind Trump’s Policy Blitz (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)
Chaos On Border: Mexican Cartels Fire At US Border Patrol Agents
He Did It: Trump Calls for Ending the Federal Income Tax! (Matt Margolis/PJ Media)
The Birthright Citizenship Clause Too Many Forget, but Trump Is Right to Question
Trump Ousts Top Labor Board Leaders Who Backed Broader Worker Rights (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
Donald Trump Says He’s Too ‘Busy’ To Play Golf, Then Guess What Happens (Ron Dicker/HuffPost) Still waiting for these people to get out of high school.
By killing remote work, DOGE will only bleed taxpayers dry (The Hill) Democrats have been doing that for decades.
National Faculty Union Urges Resistance To Trump Efforts: “Vigorously And Loudly Oppose”
Trump’s perceived enemies brace for retribution with plans, dark humor (Washington Post) And juvenile insults.
Hegseth Praises Military Integration, But CNNer Says He Sounds Like An Old Segregationist! If you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog.
USAID officials put on leave for allegedly not abiding by executive order (NPR)
Trump Administration Payment Freeze May Delay Money For Critical Preschool Program (Jonathan Cohn/HuffPost) The one to convince boys that they’re actually girls?
Trump’s Most Lawless Action Yet (David Dayen/American Prospect)
Trump and the Dr Strangelove experiment (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
Democrats question legality of Trump’s freeze on all federal grants (Washington Post) Of course they do.
Trump Is Ignoring the Law – and Congress Doesn’t Care (Ankush Khardori/Politico)
Democrats declare ‘constitutional crisis’ on funding freeze (Politico)
Trump administration targets thousands of programs in funding freeze (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)
Unlawful Funding Freeze Sows Chaos (David Super/Balkinization)
States Plan to Sue to Block Trump’s Federal Grants Freeze (New York Times)
Trump’s beef with the World Health Organization is personal (Carmen Paun/Politico)
Caroline Kennedy warns senators of ‘predator’ RFK Jr. in searing letter (Washington Post)
SNL Claims Trump’s ‘King Era’ Is Remaking America ‘Very Whitely’
Non-profits, health groups sue over Trump’s freeze on grants, loans (Nate Raymond/Reuters) Pigs getting kicked away from the trough.
Nevertheless, CNN Persists in Smearing Elon Musk With the Ridiculous Salute Hoax
Pittsburgh Mayor Gainey Vows to Oppose ICE So arrest him for misprision of felony.
Trump Hit With New Lawsuit for Funneling Sensitive Info to Elon Musk (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
Sunny Hostin Scoffs at Woman Burned to Death By Illegal Immigrant
Huh? MSNBC Warns ‘Gestapo Raids’ Are Turning U.S. Into ‘East Germany’
Six Service Members File Lawsuit Over Trump’s Trans Troop Ban
Europe’s leaders plot to stop Trump from taking Greenland (Politico)
WATCH: MSNBC Pundit Compares ICE Deportations—Supported By Most Americans—To ‘Gestapo Raids’