Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
17th June 2025
American Bar Association sues Trump administration over executive orders targeting law firms (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico) I’d love to know what argument the make for having standing for such a suit.
ABA sues Trump over series of orders targeting law firms (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill)
MAGA Whips Up Conspiracy Theories To Muddy An Act Of Right-Wing Violence (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo) MAGA is apparently a large movie villain like the Pillsbury Doughboy in GHOSTBUSTERS. Makes you wonder what these guys are smoking.
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible (David Pierce/The Verge)
CNN Finds Trump’s Birthday Suspicious, Upset Speech Was Non-Political
It sure looks like anti-Trump protest fatigue has vanished (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC) I’m sure they like to think that.
Judge orders many NIH grants restored, calling cancellation unlawful (Joseph Choi/The Hill) Because, as we all know, once someone has received money from the Federal government they are ENTITLED to that amount (or more) forever after.
Scoop: U.S. tells allies it won’t join war unless Iran targets Americans (Barak Ravid/Axios) Kinda shoots the “Trump the Warmonger” meme right square in the ass, doesn’t it? Not that the Narrative Media are going to spend more than a trivial effort reporting it.
Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times) I’m sure he might even notice.
Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules (Zach Montague/New York Times) Ah, ‘minority groups, God’s Chosen.
FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium (Ryan Grenoble/HuffPost) A lot of guilty consciences out there.
Home-goods companies prepare new Trump-linked products (Shelby Talcott/Semafor) Can’t let Trump get all the merch sales.
Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Ongoing Rift With Allies (New York Times) Embrace!
Trump’s Trade and Tax Policies Start to Stall U.S. Battery Boom (Rebecca F. Elliott/New York Times) OH NOES! WHERE WILL WE GET OUR ELECTRIC CAR BATTERIES?
Trump Wants Iran to Give Up Entirely on Nuclear Weapons As does any same person.
Only Nonviolence Will Beat Trump (New York Times) Not even that.
Republicans Fight Uphill in Virginia Race That Will Test Anger at Trump (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times) Because everything is All About Trump. If they didn’t have Trump, the wouldn’t have anything.
Trump ‘Reamed Out’ Hegseth for Flop Birthday Parade: Author (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast) And of course some random ‘author’ talking to the Daily Beast can mind-read Trump perfectly.
White House Eyes Rarely Used Power to Override Congress on Spending (Tony Romm/New York Times)
Playbook: Trump’s moment of truth (Politico)
Trump Mobile Joins the Oval Office Sales Parade (Timothy L. O’Brien/Bloomberg) Making money is okay (10% for the Big Guy!) unless it’s Trump doing it.
What happened to “states’ rights”? (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice) Democrats. Starting with Wilson.
Trump is deporting way fewer people than Obama did. Why? (Nicole Narea/Vox) Because many of them are self-deporting, fearing that Trump will eventually get around to kicking them out; nobody thought that about Obama.
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs (ProPublica)
South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. (Stephanie Nolen/New York Times) Because, as we all know, medical research in South Africa is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.
Trump says he won’t call Gov. Tim Walz after Minnesota shootings: ‘He’s a mess’ (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News) Not his circus, not his monkeys.
‘It would ‘waste time’: Trump says he won’t call Minnesota Gov. after lawmaker shootings (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today) What’s he gonna say? “Tim, I think you suck.” “Donald, I think you suck.” “Nice talking to you.”
Dems Plot to Stop Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescission’
‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’: The Left’s 10 Most Outrageous Comments About LA Riots
House Republican, Democrat move to limit Trump from entering Iran war (Andrew Solender/Axios)
Anti-ICE Riots Cost Los Angeles Nearly $20 Million “We’ll show you! We’ll burn our own stuff down! So there!”
The White House Wants to Numb Voters to This (Ronald Brownstein/Bloomberg) Narrative Media lies?
Trump’s $4 Trillion Plan to Raise Your Energy Bills (Joseph Romm/Rolling Stone)
The violence and incitement are coming from Trump (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Yeah, he personally popped those three Democrats in Minnesota. (Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.)
NAACP Announces President Trump will not be invited to 116th National Convention (NAACP) Good. Saves him the trouble of refusing to attend the meeting of an explicitly racist group.
MAGA voices spread falsehoods to link Minnesota shooter to Democrats (Avery Lotz/Axios) I wonder what part of “Appointed by Tim Walz” he doesn’t understand.
Donald Trump Ripped As Vladimir Putin’s PR Guy After G7 Whine (Lee Moran/HuffPost)
Trump tries to smash sports team owners’ tax break (Alex Isenstadt/Axios) Okay, explain to me why billionaire sports team owners ought to have a special tax break.