Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
8th May 2025
Trump digs in on high China tariffs ahead of trade talks (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
America Needs More Judges Like Judge Myers (Richard L. Hasen/The Atlantic)
Hegseth’s Use of Passwords Raises New Security Concerns (New York Times)
A Most Sensitive Subject in the White House: Where Is Melania? (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
Lawyers scramble to prevent Trump from deporting migrants to Libya (Washington Post)
US Judge to Consider Ordering Trump to Return Venezuelans From El Salvador
US Judge Says Deporting Migrants to Libya Would Violate Court Order
Judge blocks deportation flight of Asian migrants to Libya (NBC News)
How Pollsters Rig the Numbers Against Trump
NBC: Gov. DeWine Asks Ohio GOP Not to Back Ramaswamy
A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms (Wired)
Federal Reserve Rings Every Alarm Bell About Trump’s Economy (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
A Russian fake news ring was struggling. Then it targeted USAID. (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
Trump’s latest deportation scheme is almost certainly illegal (Nicole Narea/Vox)
Democrats Cave, Prepare to Rubber-Stamp Trump Crypto Corruption (David Dayen/American Prospect)
Trump’s Worst Idea Since Tariffs (Wall Street Journal)
Will Trump Pretend to Fix What He Broke? (Paul Krugman) Wil Krugman ever quit pretending to be an economist?
Popular Resistance to Trump Is Working (Jonathan Blanks/The Bulwark)
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts (David Pilling/Financial Times)
Trump’s Border Czar Secretly Deported Two U.S. Citizen Children (Michael Daly/The Daily Beast)
No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines (New York Times) Indeed. That’s why we voted for Trump.
How the House became this spineless (Philip Bump/Washington Post) Philip Bump loses his shit.
The Supreme Court Is Really “Just Vibes” (Pema Levy/Mother Jones) More gaslighting by the Narrative Media.
West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate (Graham Parsons/New York Times) The Left always accuses their enemies of doing what the Left would like to do.
Trump Has Been Stopped By Courts More Than 200 Times (Bloomberg) Or at least they’ve tried to. Let’s see how many survive the appeals process.
The Libertarian Tech Bros’ Weird, Dystopian Plan for Guantánamo Bay (Laurie Clarke/New Republic)
Trump’s scattered brain creates havoc (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism (Derek Thompson/The Atlantic) Handwaving and gaslighting are all they’ve got.