Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
5th May 2025
Trump claims credit for good parts of economy, blames Biden for bad parts (Jared Gans/The Hill) As does every politician.
These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful (Damon Linker/New York Times)
A disturbance in the force: White House’s Star Wars Day post raises eyebrows (Avery Lotz/Axios) Of course, if Biden or Obama had made such a post, it would be considered Hip and Trendy.
MEET THE DEPRESSED: Trump Handles NBC’s Welker
The White House’s Next Orchestrated Budget Crisis (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
Democrats Denounce Rubio Holding Four Roles in Trump Administration (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)
The Trump family is taking crypto payoffs in the middle of Fifth Avenue. Who will stop them? (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch loses his shit.
Stephen A. Smith Says He Was ‘Aghast’ at Trump’s Support for His Potential Candidacy Trump cooties!
Chuck Schumer Slams Trump’s Remarks on Constitution How is this news?
Rosie O’Donnell suggests Trump is in ‘cognitive decline’ (Asher Notheis/Washington Examiner) More proglodyte projection.
A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump (Matina Stevis-Gridneff/New York Times) The Deep State fights back.
MAGA media muscles up (Axios) MAGA is the New Nigger.
These 6 Republican ‘red lines’ could complicate Trump’s policy plans (Washington Post)
Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump (New York Times) I guess they’ve forgotten ‘ten percent for the Big Guy’ already.
’60 Minutes’ Thumbs Its Nose at Trump With Scathing Segment (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast) Scathing!
The most disturbing aspect of Trump’s first 100 days (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)
How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer (Eric Levitz/Vox)
Trump promised his tariffs would create jobs. They’re already destroying them. (Miles Bryan/Vox)
Mike Waltz and government by sycophantic clowns (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) Noah Berlatsky loses his shit.
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed (Derek Beres/The Guardian) Nice straw man you got there, mate.
Celebrities: Trump Will Destroy the World! (Christian Toto/Hollywood in Toto) Their world, certainly. Not a bad thing.
Lawler town hall devolves into chaos (Lauren Irwin/The Hill) Which is what happens when proglodyte activists swarm a Republican meeting. This was entirely predictable.
The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis (Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana) No, they don’t. This is just proglodyte pearl-clutching.
Trump Throws a Tantrum After Getting Roasted by Karl Rove (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast) Roasted!
The Latest Trump and DOGE Casualty: Energy Data (Peter Elkind/ProPublica) We don’t get to make shit up any more!
The Trade War Is Coming for Your Plumbing (Bloomberg) Sorry, but AlGore got there already.
Industry Reacts To Trump’s “Insane” Movie Tariff Threat: “This Would Destroy The Independent Film Sector” (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline) They’ve already done that themselves.
Our Megalomaniacal President — More headlines from the disaster zone: … Happy Monday (William Kristol/The Bulwark) Bill Kristol loses his shit.
Univision Mourns Cancellation of Cinco de Mayo Parades Due to Fear of Potential ICE Raids and Deportations Scofflaws assemble!
We need a way to aggregate what Donald Trump is doing to this country (Dan Froomkin/Press Watch) Why? You’;l; just make it up anyway.
Trump isn’t making America great –he’s making it unrecognizable (William S. Becker/The Hill)
Maga media mob: meet the new rightwing faces in the White House briefing room (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian) MAGA is the New Nigger.
America’s least American president (Philip Bump/Washington Post) Philip Bumb loses his shit.
19 states sue RFK Jr., Trump administration for overhauling HHS and staff cuts (Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy/USA Today) WAAAAHHH! WE WANT THAT MONEY!
Trump ally Laura Loomer uses Nazi slogan to call for replacing Indian American congressperson (Media Matters for America) *sigh* No, she didn’t.
Transcript: Fox News Visibly Rattled as Trump’s Slide in Polls Worsens (New Republic) Democrats see it when they believe it.
This Is Fascism: MAGA, Ashli Babbitt, and Derek Chauvin (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) Jonathan Last loses his shit.
60 Minutes Touts Marc Elias Defending ‘The Rule of Law’ Against Trump
Watch: CNN Can’t Even Get Mexican Cartel Members To Bash Trump
Europe Seeks To Lure U.S. Scientists Disenfranchised Under Trump (Joshua P. Cohen/Forbes) Good luck with that. You can have all the Grievance Studies majors you want.
Womp, Womp: ‘Morning Joe’ Admits No Evidence to WILD Claim About Kash Patel