Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
31st January 2025
Does a ‘foreign power’ threaten the Panama Canal? Here’s what you need to know (CNN)
What Trump Really Wants in Panama (Americas Quarterly)
Trump’s Trash Defense Secretary Is Ready to Go to War With U.S. Allies (The New Republic)
A deeply tan RFK Jr. is a picture of American health (Washington Poop)
When RFK Jr. was presented with the science on vaccines he said needed to see, he dismissed it (Associated Press) Just like a Democrat (which he is)!
Trump health secretary nominee RFK Jr survives heated hearings ahead of crucial confirmation votes (Fox News)
Republican committee chairman ‘struggling’ with RFK Jr. nomination (CNN)
Trump Admin Canceling Funding To NGOs Involved In Illegal Immigration, Noem Says
US judge blocks Trump administration from transferring transgender inmate (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit (New York Times)
Why Does the NYT Continue To Print Front Page Lies About RFK Jr.? That’s what they do.
Pentagon scrubs Biden-era abortion travel policy (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
Musk’s Twitter Takeover Offers Trump a Blueprint (New York Times)
Several senior FBI leaders told to leave agency or be fired, people familiar say (Washington Post)
Government Tech Workers Forced to Defend Projects to Random Elon Musk Bros (Wired) The horror!!
Trump Raised Millions From Crypto Firms for His Inauguration (Bill Allison/Bloomberg) The Narrative Media, of course, would prefer to have the taxpayers cover it–for a Democrat.
MSNBC’s Beinart Hopes Trump Is Tried at The Hague for ‘Great War Crimes’
Census Bureau Director Robert Santos is resigning, making way for Trump’s pick (Hansi Lo Wang/NPR)
It’s Been Just 11 Days, But 100,000 Have Already Signed Petition to ‘Impeach Trump Again’ (Eloise Goldsmith/Common Dreams) Is that all? Surely there are more leftists in the U.S.
A new era of government censorship has dawned (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post) To the Washington Poop, censorship is what Republicans do to Democrats; what Democrats do to Republicans doesn’t qualify.
‘Without Evidence’! Media Knock Trump Mention of DEI Hiring at Post-Crash Presser
FAA Report on D.C. Plane Crash Is Out–and It’s an Indictment of Trump (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
Playbook: Trump’s narrative shift (Zack Stanton/Politico)
DCA crash puts Trump’s appalling unfitness on full display (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice) Look up ‘rupar’ in the Urban Dictionary.
Is There Anything Trump Won’t Blame on DEI? (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic) Is there anything that Jonathan Chait won’t blame on Trump?
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system (Washington Post)
Boxed Up: A Portrait of an Immigrant Community Living Under Threat of Deportation (ProPublica) Wring those hands! Jerk those tears!
Trump, Facing Two Crises in His Second Week, Spreads the Blame Around (Wall Street Journal)
Hey, where’s that Trump-proofing money already? (Politico)
What the data says about Trump’s DEI air crash claims (Axios)
How Trump Could Defy the Constitution – or Find a Loophole – and Seize a Third Term (James Romoser/Politico) No, he can’t. This is bullshit.
How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze (New York Times) Without U.S. taxpayers, the world will starve!
Trump is About to Step on Putin’s Trap (Washington Monthly)
A career official tried to undo Trump’s purge at USAID. He was then purged, too. (John Hudson/Washington Post) You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.
Trump and Allies Default to Racist Explanation of Deadly Air Collision (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
Trump and the Collapse of the Old Order (Peggy Noonan/Wall Street Journal)
People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs – but they don’t direct air traffic (Joseph Shapiro/NPR) They do, however, spend your money. Look at Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren.
Trump Administration Shocks Senior F.B.I. Ranks by Moving to Replace Them (New York Times)
Chuck Todd exiting NBC News after nearly 20 years as Trump starts second term (Jay Stahl/USA Today) And another one bites the dust. (He’s Gone for Good: The Worst of NBC’s Chuck Todd)
Pentagon shocked by Trump’s order to house migrants in Guantanamo Bay (Politico)
Trump said he hadn’t read Project 2025 – but most of his early executive actions overlap with its proposals (CNN) That’s because they were pretty obvious common sense policies.
Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day (ABC News)
Defense agency bans Black History Month and other ‘special observances’ (NBC News)
MAGA’s revenge of the mediocre: Trump’s war on federal workers targets the meritorious (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.
EPA workers receive emails warning their employment could be terminated (CNN) Terminate the whole damned agency. The EPA is one of the reasons that Dick Nixon will burn in Hell for all eternity.
IDIOCY: NYT Buries Data on Federal Waste in Screed Against Trump’s Spending Freeze
USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites (Politico)
FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday (CNN)
A Wannabe Authoritarian Hard At Work (The Bulwark)
Scoop: Sanders probing Trump’s purge of labor officials (Stephen Neukam/Axios)
Head of FBI Washington Field Office is forced out in Trump administration purge (NBC News)
Sunny Hostin Blames Trump and His Voters for Fatal DC Airliner Collision Of course she does.
We’ve Now Learned the Three Principles of Trumpism, and They’re Ugly (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)
Navy Already Rejecting Transgender Recruits After Trump Order
WATCH: Hakeem Jeffries Vows To Fight Trump Agenda ‘in the Streets’