Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
6th May 2025
Trump has already screwed over Germany’s new chancellor (Politico)
Trump’s call to reopen Alcatraz falls flat with tourists, who ask: Why and how? (L.A.Times)
Trump’s order to reopen Alcatraz is the perfect metaphor for his second term (CNN)
Why the notorious Alcatraz prison closed (PBS) Notorious!
Trump called for 100% tariff on foreign films a day after Jon Voight proposed ‘limited’ tariffs (The Guardian) So what?
Cognitive Decline? Trump Spews a Word Salad to Explain Alcatraz Idea. (The New Republic)
Trump is acting like it’s his choice whether he obeys the Constitution (Stephen Collinson/CNN) Well, it is. Doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences. But CNN never worries about consequences. Nor about whether their writers are morons.
Trump’s Hollywood tariffs are more than just political theater (Ankush Khardori/Politico) Not that anyone ata Politico would know.
Rasmussen: Trump Bumps Up to 50 Percent Approval
Proud Boys’ Ex-Leader Thanks Trump for Pardon at Mar-a-Lago Encounter (New York Times)
Trump Administration Disqualifies Harvard From Future Research Grants (New York Times)
Trump’s Justice Department Just Sided With Biden On Abortion Pill Case (Alanna Vagianos/HuffPost)
Wash. Counties Sue Feds Over Loss of DEI Funding
Former official targeted by Trump says the president is trying to silence critics (NBC News)
The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism (Heather Digby Parton/Salon)
The EU Zombie Uses Trump As Cover To Further Feed On Citizens
Trump critics launch new group to highlight rising costs (Steve Peoples/Associated Press)
Judge Orders Trump Admin to Admit Roughly 12,000 Refugees
N.Y. Asks Judge to Block Trump From Ending Congestion Pricing Program
One Ship, $417 Million in New Tariffs: The Cost of Trump’s Trade War (Bloomberg)
RFK Jr.’s Measles Strategy Is Leading the US Down a Dark Path (Lisa Jarvis/Bloomberg) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. (Anna Clark/ProPublica) It can a afford to lose 10% without loss of function.
Elon Musk’s painful departure (Edward Luce/Financial Times) The Financial Times is the British analog of the Wall Street Journal--if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.
Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening America’s Apple Juice Supply Chain (Kate Knibbs/Wired) The horror! The horror!
Words & Phrases We Can Do Without (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin tries to control the Narrative, and fails badly.
Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
Trump admin plans to shut down money-saving Energy Star program soon, sources say (CNN)
Bernie Sanders: Resisting Trump Is ‘Not Good Enough’ (Igor Bobic/HuffPost) You also have to rub your stomach and pat your head at the same time.
A Clue From the Supreme Court on How It Will Handle Trump (Ankush Khardori/Politico)
Exclusive: Democrats target Trump family’s crypto empire (Stephen Neukam/Axios)
Trump Brags About Gold-Plated Office While Telling Americans to Cut Expenses (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) The point is that he paid for that office.
Is the White House for sale? New reports on Trump’s crypto ventures raise concern. (MSNBC) I guess they’ve already forgotten about ‘ten percent for the Big Guy’.
They voted for Trump and now their son is in ICE detention (Lautaro Grinspan/Atlanta Journal …) Nobody is above the law.