Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
5th February 2025
Trump’s declaration US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip sparks global condemnation (The Guardian)
Trump says US ‘will take over’ Gaza and Palestinians should leave (CNN)
Behind the Curtain: Trump’s wild Middle East vision (Axios)
Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza (The Guardian)
Trump’s administration is pulling almost all USAID workers off the job worldwide (Associated Press)
USAID employees around the world will be placed on leave Friday and ordered to return to US (CNN)
‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’ (Politico)
What cutting USAID could cost the U.S. — and how China, Russia may benefit (NBC News)
The real reason for Trump’s tariffs (Washington Poop)
Here’s how Trump’s tariffs could impact you and your wallet (NPR)
Trump’s tariff tactics carry higher economic risks than during his first term (Associated Press)
Key House Republican: We ‘need to come to terms’ with Trump’s tariffs (Politico)
Musk shocks lawmakers, setting himself on collision course (The Hill)
Republicans in Congress mostly shrug as Musk and DOGE set sights on spending (NPR)
Congress is quiet as Trump and Musk take the ax to federal agencies (Washington Poop)
GOP Sen. Johnson says Musk’s dismantling of USAID is ‘just the tip of the iceberg’ (PBS)
Doctors sue Trump admin over removed health data (Maya Goldman/Axios)
Palestinians have no alternative to leaving Gaza, Trump says (Jeff Mason/Reuters)
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs (Corbin Hiar/Politico)
U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal (Washington Post)
State Department moving to evacuate USAID staff worldwide: Sources (ABC News)
When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too (Cathy Gellis/Techdirt)
Trump’s Attempt to Freeze Grant Funding Leaves Nonprofits Reeling (New York Times) The gravuy train has stopped!
You’re Fired! Trump Turns the Tables on Anti-Free Speech USAID
Trump envoy calls Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce ‘preposterous’ (Associated Press)
Treasury Department Says DOGE Access Is ‘Read Only’ (Richard Rubin/Wall Street Journal)
Migrant flight heads to Guantanamo Bay as legal questions swirl around Trump plans (CNN)
Trump administration plans sweeping layoffs among workers who don’t opt to resign (CNN)
Democrats Are Falling For Trump and Musk’s Foreign Aid Trap (Rachael Bade/Politico)
Favorite Son? New Yorkers Like Trump More Than Dem Governor, Poll Finds
Anonymous FBI Agents Sue To Prevent Trump from Knowing Their Roles In J6, Mar-a-Lago Raid
Musk’s USAID Shutdown: ‘This Is What the Beginning of Dictatorship Looks Like’ (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark) Decreasing the size of government doesn’t look like any ‘dictatorship’ ever. You can look it up.
Federal workers face mounting pressure to decide on Trump resignation offer (Washington Post)
USAID missions overseas ordered to shut down, staff being recalled by Friday (CBS News)
Stop attending panels meant to improve air travel, FAA tells employees (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico) They obviously don’t work, except to spend taxpayer dollars.
Trump suggests permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
The 11th Hour’s Post-Inaugural Pity Party ‘Therapy Session’ Never Ends
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’ (NBC News)
California Passes $50M Bill To Resist Trump Agenda
Multiple ICE impersonation arrests made during nationwide immigration crackdown (CNN)
Treasury Defends Musk Team’s Access to Federal Payment System (Alan Rappeport/New York Times)
CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce (CNN)
A Legal Counteroffensive to Beat Back Trump’s Government Purges (New York Times)
Trump Advisers Stopped Musk From Hiring a Noncitizen at DOGE (The Atlantic)
‘Deranged’ and ‘problematic’: Bipartisan lawmakers bash Trump’s Gaza proposal (NBC News)
Trump’s plan to ‘take over’ Gaza Strip confuses GOP lawmakers (Politico)
USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos (Zeyi Yang/Wired) So use DHL. USPS is a crap service anyway.
Fetterman Supports US Occupation Of Gaza (Paul Campos/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
CIA offers buyouts to entire workforce to align with Trump priorities, sources say (Reuters)
Hamas official says Trump’s remarks about taking over Gaza could ignite the region (Reuters) Which is otherwise so peaceful….
US military plane carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants lands in Amritsar (Aseem Bassi/India Today)
Migrants Are Deported to India on U.S. Military Plane (Suhasini Raj/New York Times)
Musk creates new power base in Washington with takeover of US agencies (Reuters)
Trump’s suggestion the US ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip is rejected by allies and adversaries alike (Associated Press) So it must be a good idea.
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab (Charlie Savage/New York Times) Just like a Democrat!
Shutdown anxiety rises on Capitol Hill amid Trump chaos (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)
Trump’s tariffs could make it harder for Americans to get their medications (Dylan Scott/Vox)
Military Plane Carries Indian Migrants Back From US In Furthest Deportation Flight Yet
With Gaza Plan, an Unbound Trump Pushes an Improbable Idea (Peter Baker/New York Times)
America’s constitutional crisis could come to a head in four months (Eric Levitz/Vox)
Trump and Musk Are Vandalizing the World (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg) They’re certainly vandalizing the Deep State.
The “deferred resignation” scam (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
Trump declares flawless victory in pointless trade war (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US (Associated Press)
USAID announces sweeping moves to sideline remaining staff (Washington Post)
Congress is quiet as Trump and Musk take the ax to federal agencies (Washington Post)
Republicans stare down massive deficits to extend Trump tax cuts (Tobias Burns/The Hill) The way to cure deficits is to cut spending. Trump is all about cutting spending.
Don’t Let Trump Turn X and TikTok Into State-Run Social Media (Dave Lee/Bloomberg) As they were under Biden.
Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain (ProPublica) Mark this down as the only time that ProPubica has ever expressed giving a shit about gun owners.
Republican-led states rush to align with Trump’s MAGA agenda (Adam Edelman/NBC News) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Level Of Democrat Panic Over Musk Freezing USAID “Unlike Anything Ever Seen” The gravy train has stopped! Bad news for proglodytes!
Why Elon Will Be Trump’s Undoing (William Kristol/The Bulwark) I’m sure he wishes that were true.
TOO GENEROUS? Poll Finds Most Americans Back Trump’s Bureaucrat Buyout Plan, But There’s a Catch
Trump Is Turning Out To Be a Very Pro-China President (Nahal Toosi/Politico) The progressive brain in action.
America’s adversaries cheer Trump admin’s USAID teardown (Ivana Saric/Axios)
New Democratic bill targets Elon Musk (Nicholas Wu/Politico) Using government power against your enemies. How Democrat.
Trump’s Petty Purge of 15 Young Jan. 6 Prosecutors (Roger Parloff/Default) Maybe they’ll learn from their mistakes.
Musk? Trump? Who Exactly Is Running the Federal Government? (Tyler McBrien/New York Times) It’s not Biden or Harris, and that’s all I care about.
Trump administration may allow local police to arrest immigrants (Maria Sacchetti/Washington Post) ‘Allow’?
Big Deportation Raids Begin In Tren De Aragua-Infested Aurora, Colorado
Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled (April Rubin/Axios) But much more to gain. We can live with it.
DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud (Wall Street Journal) They say that like it was a bad thing.
Republican skeptics cave on Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks (Paul Kane/Washington Post) Perhaps Republicans are now learning what Democrats have always remembered: What side they’re on.
Higher Ed Fights Back Against Trump’s DEI Order (Jessica Blake/Inside Higher Ed)
Democrats rip Trump Gaza takeover plan: ‘Openly calling for ethnic cleansing’ (Lauren Irwin/The Hill) The people of Gaza have been calling for ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Jews for 70 years. Turn about is fair play.
Postal Service to resume accepting China shipments (Rob Wile/NBC News) But it wouldn’t mean slaughtering all of the Palestinians, which is what the Palestinians want to do to the Jews.
As Big Retailers Like Target Pull Back on D.E.I., What Happens to Black Sellers? (New York Times) They actually have to work for a living, rather than depending on anti-white racism?
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis (Mike Brock/Techdirt) Techdirt outs itself as a Voice of the Crust.
Elon Musk and the League of Shadows (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew turns apocalyptic.
Elon Musk Weaponizes the Government (Default) Just like a Democrat!
Senate’s top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far (Emma Dumain/Politico) ‘Top appropriator’ doesn’t mean so much when there’s less to appropriate.
Bell, Colbert Label Trump a ‘First Ballot Hall of Fame Racist’
Here We Go Again: Dem Rep Files Impeachment Articles Against Trump for ‘Dastardly Deeds’
Rep. Al Green Revives Push to Impeach Trump
King Musk’s Government Purge Hits a Snag (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)
DOGE Invades NOAA, Sparking Fears of Cuts and Privatization (Michael Sainato/Mother Jones)
Trump White House Moves to Allow for a Musk Takeover of Government IT (David Corn/Mother Jones)
Rep. Al Green is filing new impeachment articles against Trump (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
First Spy Plane, Now US Navy’s Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Spotted Off Mexico’s Coast
Program Allowing Police to Arrest Immigrants May Return
Trump to sign order that could bar trans women from US Olympic participation (Politico) The Olympics used to police that themselves. Now–not so much.
It turns out that many media sites favoring Democrats have been on the USAID payroll
List: Examples of Trump’s Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits (New York Times) “But … but … that’s the way we’ve always done it!”
How USAID Damages U.S. Relations With Foreign Countries