Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
13th May 2025
Judge Won’t Block IRS From Sharing Tax Data to Identify and Deport Illegals
Clergy Protest at ICE Site After Mayor’s Arrest
A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million (Wired) Think anybody would pay $2 million for dinner with Biden? The question answers itself.
Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries (Associated Press) But Hunter’s laptop didn’t. I wonder why.
Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia (New York Times)
Trump’s trillion-dollar trip (Axios)
Trump Seeking $1 Trillion In Saudi Investment, Air Force One En Route
Trump’s drug pricing move shows his second-term reluctance to try bipartisanship: From the Politics Desk (NBC News) Because ‘bipartisanship’, as the Narrative Media define the term, means ‘Republicans doing what Democrats want’.
Trump’s free plane is not so free (Politico)
Qatar Bribes Trump With Bling Blimp (Liz Dye/Law and Chaos)
What Trump’s Corruption Will Cost Us (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)
Trump’s gifted Qatari 747 would be a security problem, officials say (Washington Post)
Corruption in Plane Sight (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)
Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
Guess Which Other World Leader Said ‘Yes’ to Free Qatari Jet? (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)
Trump Melts Down Over Damning Report on Qatar Giving Him a Private Jet (Edith Olmsted/New Republic) Actually, it’s the Narrative Media who are ‘melting down’.
RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day (Issie Lapowsky/Vanity Fair) Showing them what happens when Democrats are in charge of a city.
Deputy attorney general who defended Trump in hush money trial is named acting librarian of Congress (Associated Press) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….
The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It’s his former defense lawyer. (Neda Ulaby/NPR) OH NO! TRUMP COOTIES!
Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library (Rolling Stone) I doubt that the Congressional Library controls Congress. These people are deranged.
Donald Trump’s Corruption Reaches New Heights (Slate)
Trump is the most corrupt President in U.S. history. Period. (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean’s Report)
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
White House correspondents protest lack of wire reporters on Air Force One (Associated Press) Wire reporters like … the Associated Press….
Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash for Aiding Trump’s Deportation Campaign (Niraj Chokshi/New York Times)
Trump’s Middle East trip marked by potential private business conflicts (Washington Post)
Despite Mainstream Panic, US Consumer Price Inflation Tumbles To Lowest In Over 4 Years
AP Desperately Tries to Shut Down Hype Over Good Inflation News for Trump
Defenders of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Offer an Implausible Take on a 127-Year-Old Precedent (Jacob Sullum/Reason) It was wrong, just as Dred Scott was wrong.
Donald Trump leans left in bid to revive flagging poll numbers (James Politi/Financial Times) And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.
Donald Trump’s gargantuan self-dealing (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
Trump’s Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed Is Deforming America (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)
Democrats Attempt To Blockade ICE Detention Center In New Jersey
The Lawsuit Exposing MAGA’s Voter Suppression Machine (Max Flugrath/Democracy Docket) By which they mean ensuring that the people who vote aren’t doing so illegally–a sore spot for Democrats.
MAGA Attacks Church Over Donald Trump Rebuke: ‘Funds MUST Be Pulled’ (Martha McHardy/Newsweek) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Shame on the White House (George Saunders/New York Times) That wouldn’t work with the New York Times, who are shameless.
Trump Has Already Ruined Christmas (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)
Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished (Mehdi Hasan/The Guardian)
Why Qatar is bribing Trump (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses? (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch loses his shit.
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