Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
21st May 2025
Let’s see where the Narrative Media are stampeding today, shall we?
US Accused of Defying Order by Sending Migrants to S. Sudan
Migrants deported to South Sudan in violation of court order, attorneys say (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill) Attorneys say! That proves it!
Don’t lose sight of the pain Trump is passing on to American consumers (Jeff Nesbit/The Contrarian)
Massie Fundraises Off Being ‘Threatened’ by Trump
Marco Rubio Says No Judge Has Authority Over Him in Alarming Testimony (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
Wealthy gain, low-income people lose from GOP megabill, analysis finds (Ben Leonard/Politico)
Trump Administration Live Updates: House G.O.P. Hunts for Votes on Policy Bill (New York Times)
Blue States Mount Court Challenge to Trump’s Tariffs
Enraged Democrats plan to “double down” on ICE visits (Andrew Solender/Axios)
Trump’s $4 trillion deficit bomb (Zachary Basu/Axios)
The controversy over Rep. LaMonica McIver’s criminal charges, explained (Niall Stanage/The Hill) Come get yer Narrative, right here.
A Liz Truss Moment for America? (Paul Krugman)
Trump’s Plan to Cap Drug Prices Doesn’t Exist (Rogé Karma/The Atlantic)
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago (Chiara Eisner/NPR) More to the point, it isn’t scaremongering and causing panic the way it was months ago.
Trump Is Waging War on the Future (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
The conspiracy theory that broke Dan Bongino (Philip Bump/Washington Post) Philip Bump loses his shit.
Pope Leo XIV’s MAGA Brother Gets White House Blessing From Trump (Lee Moran/HuffPost) MAGA is the New Nigger.
DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of congresswoman (Liz Dye/Public Notice) So holding lpoliticians to account for breaking the law is ‘politicization’? Say it with me: Nobody Is Above The Law. Not even Democrat Congresscritters.
Trump’s Newest Crackdown on Dissent (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)
Universities struggle to keep cancer research afloat amid Trump funding cuts (Lexi Lonas Cochran/The Hill) Because, as we all know, cancer research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.
EU, Business Join to Stop “Romanian Donald Trump” Maybe Trump is the New Nigger.
The Spanish Historical Lesson (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin demonstrates that she is as ignorant of history as she is of economics.
Budget office: Republicans’ megabill would give to the rich and take from the poor (Steve Benen/MSNBC) Only if you think all money belongs to the government. If you don’t, it lets the rich keep more of the money that creates jobs, and quits giving money to the poor who just spend it.
The GOP Tax Bill Ignores Decades of Economic Research (Kathryn Anne Edwards/Bloomberg) Because it was wrong, and has put us in our current predicament.
US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan (The Guardian) According to ‘immigrants rights advocates’, and they wouldn’t lie to us, would they?
The forgotten book that foretold Trump’s power grab (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
Trump ambushes South Africa’s president with video footage in Oval Office (Avery Lotz/Axios) Ambushed him with the truth by playing a clip of his people singing ‘Kill the Boer’. (Trump Confronts South African President Over Killing of White Farmers)(Trump Shows South African President Receipts of Genocide)
Trump’s big bill is terrible in all the normal Republican ways (Dylan Matthews/Vox)
Trump illegally fired surveillance watchdog agency’s Democrats, judge rules (Alfred Ng/Politico)
Maybe I need a new post for Today in Democrat Lawfare.