Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
5th July 2025
The Bulwark’s top editor shares how the anti-Trump site tripled its subscriber base in a year — and why it’s betting on YouTube (James Faris/Business Insider) And there you have it. The whole point of The Bulwark is to be anti-Trump; and apparently that’s a profitable business model.
Dutch Artist’s ‘Shamed’ Lady Liberty Mural Targets Trump
Trump is Putting the American Dream Out of Reach (Adrianna Tomasello/Democrats) The American Dream has been out of reach since the Democrats started pissing on the economy.
AOC Warns of ICE ‘Explosion’ After ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill Passes (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast) OH NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!
BRICS Nations to Denounce Trump Tariffs They can put tariffs on us, no problem, but God forbid we should put tariffs on them.
Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. (Andrea Pitzer/MSNBC) WE CONTROL THE NARRATIVE!
Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe (New York Times) As opposed to Biden’s (and Obama’s) politicized FBI?
Congo Braces for HIV Surge After U.S. Funding Stops (Nicholas Bariyo/Wall Street Journal) Because, as we all know, preventing HIV in the Congo is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.
Trump ramps up deportation spectacle with new stunts and ICE funding (Axios)
I’m Scared Children Will Die of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Perri Klass/New York Times) Betcha any money that she supports ‘abortion rights’.
MSNBC’s Capehart Denounces Trump Keeping People ‘In Cages’—Ya Mean, Like Obama?
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo) ‘Critical’ means ‘we’re bitching about Trump doing stuff that we were prefectly okay with Obama and Biden doing’.
A Road Map for Undoing the Damage of the Big, Awful Bill (Jason Furman/New York Times)
What Trump–And the U.S.–Can’t Understand About Air Strikes (Phillips Payson O’Brien/The Atlantic) But a scribbler for The Atlantic of course does.
Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it. (Myah Ward/Politico)
The GOP’s Big Bill Is Massively Unpopular — If People Actually Know About It (Kevin Robillard/HuffPost) I.e. they get steeped in the Narrative.
The Secret Police Are Here — While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls (Mike Brock/Notes From The Circus) Guess he was asleep under previous Democrat administrations.
‘He likes the game too much’: Why Trump isn’t sweating his lack of trade deals (Politico)
Kamala Harris Sparks MAGA Meltdown With Fourth of July Post (Will Neal/The Daily Beast) Projectile vomiting I can believe.