Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome: Adventures in Epstein Edition
9th September 2025
The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre (The Economist)
Trump shares video highlighting discredited theory linking vaccines to autism (Megan Messerly/Politico) They have to put ‘discredited’ in the headline so you won’t mistake it for news.
The Epstein Letter Is Real, and It’s Bad (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
White House Melts Down Over Proof of Trump’s Gross Letter to Epstein (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
NBC Trumpwashes Their Coverage of Brutal Charlotte Stabbing
Trump Denies Epstein Birthday Drawing, but Signature Matches Personal Letters (New York Times) These guys apparently never heard of Photoshop.
Playbook: Deny, deny, deny (Politico)
Trump and Johnson likely doomed in effort to stop Epstein files vote (Andrew Solender/Axios)
Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power? (Paul Krugman)
MAGA dreaming of greater power grabs (Axios)
Trump dreams of making Chicago a colony (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)