Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
8th June 2025
What to know about counterprotests to Trump’s June 14 parade (April Rubin/Axios)
Democrats itching for fight over immigration (Mike Lillis/The Hill)
Trump Administration Says National Guard Will Be Deployed to L.A. Protests (New York Times)
White House aide calls Los Angeles anti-ICE protests an ‘insurrection’ (Reuters) What goes around comes around.
Trump administration weighs broad cancellation of California funding (Washington Post)
Trump To Deploy National Guard In Los Angeles As Anti-ICE Demonstrations Turn Violent
Trump activates National Guard after L.A.-area protests (Washington Post)
Trump deploying California National Guard over governor’s objections to LA to quell protests (Associated Press) Newsom loves riots, apparently.
Trump deploys National Guard after second day of Los Angeles immigration protests (CNN)
Live updates: Trump to deploy National Guard in L.A. amid protests over immigration raids (NBC News)
Trump authorizes 2,000 national guard troops to deploy to LA amid Ice protests (The Guardian)
Yemen’s Al-Qaida Branch Leader Threatens Trump, Musk and Others
It’s Opening Night for the MAGA Makeover of the Kennedy Center (Wall Street Journal) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law (New York Times)
Trump to Send 2,000 National Guard Troops to L.A. After Protests (Wall Street Journal)
The Big Ugly: Stephen Miller Uses His War on Home Depot to Invade California (emptywheel)
MAGA’s blue-collar base waits patiently for populist payoff (Axios) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking. (Ben Rhodes/New York Times) That started with Roe v. Wade in 1974. That ship has sailed.
Republicans are right to blanch at this Elon Musk gravy train (Washington Post)
Donald Trump Is Destroying the Economy and Waging War on the Poor (Paul Krugman/Rolling Stone)
The Quiet Unraveling of the Man Who Almost Killed Trump (New York Times)
MAGA Melts Down at ABC Reporter Over Stephen Miller Takedown (Will Neal/The Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Trump shrugs off possible reconciliation with Musk (Avery Lotz/Axios) The similarity between ‘journalists’ and teenage girls is, I think, not coincidental.
For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal (David Frum/The Atlantic) Another mind-reader in the Narrative Media with a straw-man to pummel.
ABC suspends correspondent for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” (Avery Lotz/Axios) See above comment.
Live Updates: L.A. Quiet as National Guard Troops Begin to Arrive (Associated Press)
ABC News Suspends Reporter Terry Moran for Bias That surprises me.
Musk’s DOGE Goons Covertly Transmitted Reams of WH Data (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast) Goons!
Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting (The Economist) Well, not just about stopping rioting.
National Guards to Deploy to L.A. as More Protests Are Planned (Associated Press) They may want to re-think that.
National Guard Arrives in L.A. on Trump’s Orders After Protests (Wall Street Journal)
Republicans Line Up to Back Trump’s L.A. National Guard Deployment (NOTUS)
Musk Father’s Support for Putin, Russia Again Exposed Exposed! Musk cooties!
Trump charts new territory in bypassing Newsom to deploy National Guard (Washington Post)
Trump Advisers Once Opposed Using Active-Duty Troops at Protests. Not Anymore. (Wall Street Journal) These are not “active-duty troops”, which are banned from domestic law enforcement by the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. These are National Guard troops. One would think that a writer for the WSJ would bother to learn that.
Trump might be the most accessible president ever — for spies or scammers (Sam Sabin/Axios)
It’s Summer in Trump’s America and Fascism Is in Bloom (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast) They only know one word, and they use it incorrectly.
Federal Judges Are Begging Us to Pay Attention (Adam Bonica/On Data and Democracy)
Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
Sen. Ron Johnson: California Wouldn’t Help Trump Quell Protests Of course not. He’s Hitler.
The Legal Issues Surrounding Trump’s Plan to Use Troops to Suppress Protests (Charlie Savage/New York Times) Come and get yer Narrative, right here.