Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
2nd June 2025
Trump Amplifies Outlandish Robot Biden Conspiracy Theory (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
Amanpour on PBS: Harvard a Victim of Trump McCarthyism, Watch My Speech and Learn!
Trump tariffs cut off recovery in private equity dealmaking (Financial Times)
Murphy launches ambitious anti-Trump PAC as 2028 rumors swirl (Holly Otterbein/Politico)
.Kennedy’s autism crusade ignores history, including his own family’s (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
Trump Arrest of Immigrant Triggers Shock and Regret in Small MAGA Town (New Republic) What, exactly, is a ‘MAGA town’? Other than a fantasy straw-man on the part of the New Republic.
Trump and his crew are nuts (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
Tesla Takedown takes down Musk (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) ‘Fiercely independent coverage’? Try ‘voice of the Crust’.
Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times)
The unaccountable fist of an unaccountable president (Philip Bump/Washington Post) Philip Bump loses his shit.
The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies (James Temple/MIT Technology Review) Because, as we all know, climate studies are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.
Hating New York (Paul Krugman). Hatimg Trump.
Key US weather monitoring offices understaffed as hurricane season starts (Oliver Milman/The Guardian) Because, as we all know, weather monitoring services are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.
Lisa Murkowski Isn’t Using ‘Nice Words’ About Life Under Trump (Catie Edmondson/New York Times) Murkowski is a nototious RINO. Of course she doesn’t like ‘life under Trump’.
Fact Check: Trump and G.O.P.’s False Claims on Bill’s Medicaid Cuts and Deficit Hikes (New York Times) ‘Fact checks’ do to facts what ‘body checks’ do to bodies.
DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post) And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.
Chutzpah! MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart Questions Trump’s ‘Mental Acuity’
Trumpworld Is Getting Tired of Laura Loomer. They Hope the President Is Too (Jake Lahut/Wired) As if anybody writing for WIRED knows (or gives) a shit what is going on in ‘Trumpworld’.
The war on poor kids (Judd Legum/Popular Information) Because, as we all know, poor kids are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer. Too bad they don’t have parents, or other relatives.
Trump’s Truth posts mix wild conspiracies with market-moving policies (Avery Lotz/Axios)
Don’t Buy the Nostalgia Trump Is Selling (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
Elon Musk’s Real Drug Problem Is Much Worse Than You Think (Jeet Heer/The Nation)
The Secret Police Are Here — Trump is losing on policy and the law. But he’s winning on power. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) Demcorat Projection: Democrats accusing others of what they themselves are doing – or want to do.
For ‘Pride Month,’ PBS Cues Up Leftist RAGE at Trump’s ‘Horrific’ Anti-Trans Actions
Trump puts U.S. Steel cart before the horse (Dan Primack/Axios)
Meet Josh Divine, the Trump Judicial Nominee Who Argued Christians Are “Obligated Ethically to Impose Their Beliefs On Others” (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes) As Democrats have been doing for decades. Sauce for the goose….