Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
28th April 2025
Justice Department halts funds for programs for victims of hate crimes, child abuse, school violence and more (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News) None of which are the business of the Federal government–or the Federal taxpayers.
Donald Trump Is Selling the White House to the Highest Bidder (Steven Rattner/New York Times)
On DOGE, Directives, and DOJ (Anna Bower/Default)
Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump (New York Times)
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Sen. Cory Booker host a sit-in on Capitol steps over the GOP budget plan (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News) Virtue-signaling is so much less work than actually trying to change people’s minds.
PBS Celebrates Artistic Freedom for Cartoonist Who Drew Trump With a Swastika Baton
Trump is softening his tariff talk. But the damage may already be done. (Washington Post)
Scott Bessent SCHOOLS Martha Raddatz on Poll-Driven Narratives
NYT Hack Goes Mask-Off Defending Judge Protecting Illegal Alien: ‘Sometimes Civil Disobedience Is Necessary’ David Brooks keeps drifting Left.
Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration (Wall Street Journal)
‘Trump has betrayed Canada’ says Carney Trump owes no duty to Canada.
Over 500 rabbis sign letter rejecting Trump’s antisemitism agenda
The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old (S.F. Chronicle)
Trump’s Tariffs Unite Professional Economists (Phillip W. Magness/Wall Street Journal)
TV News Assaults 2nd Trump Admin With 92% Negative Coverage
Trump Tells Americans What Putin Wants Them to Hear (Bloomberg)
Democratic Senators Question DOJ on Civil Rights Changes WHERE’S OUR MONEY????
‘I Run the Country and the World’ (The Atlantic)
Wisconsin Gov Orders State Employees to Obstruct ICE (Daniel Greenfield/Frontpage Mag)
The bubble that created Trump is the reason he’s stumbling (Philip Bump/Washington Post)
Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
Public sours on Musk’s role, is skeptical that government is cutting waste (Washington Post)
Elon Musk approval low, reflecting opposition to Trump cuts: POLL (Jaclyn S. Wong/ABC News) An ABC poll, sure.
An unprecedented scheme to profit from the presidency (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
Lawyers for Deported U.S. Citizen Kids Say Moms Were ‘Coerced’ Into Taking Them (Lorena O’Neil/Rolling Stone) Forcing moms to take their kids with them???? The horror!!!!
Trump Readies Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities, Police Reforms (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
Risk of global economic recession surges on US tariff shockwaves: Reuters poll (Hari Kishan/Reuters)
After Federal Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp (New York Times) Since when are food banks a Federal responsibility?
Arresting judges is a 5-alarm escalation (Lisa Needham/Public Notice) All together now: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW — Joe Biden
MAGA loves a tantrum: How public meltdowns became the preferred method of GOP communication (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) As opposed to, say, the tantrums that were are the daily staple of Amanda Marcotte and her fellow Deep Staters.
Trump Melts Down Over Plummeting Popularity, Says Pollsters Are ‘Criminals’ (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) Well, they’re certainly liars.
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy? (Andrew Marantz/New Yorker)
Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors (U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar) And so it starts.
Trump’s Agenda Is Still Undecided (David Dayen/American Prospect)