Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
22nd September 2025
Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters) Sources say! That proves it!
MSNBC’s Hinojosa Invokes Anne Frank, 9/11 Against ICE, Accuses Them of Murder
Trump Officials Didn’t Know If His Order To Prosecute Foes Was Meant To Be Secret (Rolling Stone) Not that it would matter.
Donald Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)
MAGA Melts Down Over Maher’s Shooter Take (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.
I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger (M. Gessen/New York Times) And the country looks at you and sees a stranger as well. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it’s time to Make America into America Again (Fortune) According to an academic.
How “Free Speech Culture” Is Killing Free Speech: Part One (Ken White/The Popehat Report) Free speech for Democrats, that is.
Adam Schiff, Tim Kaine Introduce Bill To Protect Caribbean Drug Traffickers From Trump Strikes
Amazon and eBay Sell Merch Calling for Trump’s Death
Trump To Designate More Leftist Groups As Terrorists As, indeed, they are. He ought to designate the Democrat party as terrorists, but even Trump would shrink from that much truth in politics.
Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War (Chance Phillips/Liberal Currents) Did you know that there was a “Second Bank War”?
Hey, Let’s Undermine America’s Technology, Education and Research! (Paul Krugman) Krugman is one of those tedious proglodytes who is firmly convinced that if the Federal government doesn’t do something, it won’t get done.
Why Democrats can’t match Trump’s gerrymander push (Natalie Fertig/Politico) I suspect that incompetence has a key role.
California Bans Most Law Enforcement, Including Federal Agents, From Wearing Masks All the better to doxx you later, my dear.
The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two. (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS) “Corruption” meaning, of course, Republicans.
Why Trump’s directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal (Steve Benen/MSNBC) Which doesn’t differ in any significant way from every other ‘impeachment level scandal’ Democrats manufacture.
Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump? (John Cassidy/New Yorker) Progs haves a hard time grasping the concept that not everybody thinks as they do.
Trump’s Expanding Mafia State (Steven Beschloss/America, America)
Turns out Republicans don’t care about free speech after all (Paul Waldman/Public Notice) Just like Democrats!
Here’s How Much The Trump Kids Have Made Because Of The Presidency (Dan Alexander/Forbes) Biden Crime Family? Never heard of it! Ten percent for the Big Guy? A mere myth!
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws (Debra Kamin/New York Times) Said “fair housing laws” dedicated to letting Fashionable Minorities get housing for free.
The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege (Matt Egan/CNN) And it’s all Trump’s fault! But you knew that….
Trump’s new demands on Justice Department raise alarm among prosecutors (Washington Post) Well, Democrat prosecutors, who are the only prosecutors who count.
Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges (New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.
STEVE MILLOY: Rigged Report By National Academies Aims To Thwart Trump Energy Agenda
Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast) Or ag least that’s what they’d like you to believe.
Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst (Svante Myrick/The Hill) From the Narrative viewpoint, that is.
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent (Sam Meredith/CNBC) Good luck with that. There are reasons they want to come here rather than remain in the Turd World.
Trump’s escalating war on speech raises a chilling question: Where does it end? (Tom Jones/Poynter) When the Democrats quit being fascists.
A Scandal Covered in Tahini (William Kristol/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew have completely dropped the pretencse that they are ‘conservatives’.
Hegseth’s purge of service members cheering Kirk killing comes under heavy scrutiny (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill) “They can’t do that to our pledges! Only we can do that to our pledges!” — Otter, ANIMAL HOUSE
It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy (Michael Tomasky/New Republic) It never was a ‘democracy’, but a constitutional representative republic, which Democrats hate and have tried to expunge for their entire lifetime.
Trump administration cancels annual hunger report after enacting historic cuts to nation’s safety net (Tami Luhby/CNN) Since that report was just an excuse to throw good money after bad, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Trump Wants to Target Left-Wing Groups. Here’s How He Might Do It (Brian Bennett/Time) It’s time for Narrative Media Mind-Reading, boys and girls! Get out your popcorn!
Top Goon — Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle. (Ben Terris/New York Magazine) Best looking goon we’ve ever seen.
A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers) And a lot of choleric media shills just don’t realize how popular Trump is; reality has no entry to their fantasy world.
Meme-ify Trump’s Failures (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
Shell-shocked green movement searches for how to counter Trump (Zack Colman/Politico) Unfortunately, getting their heads out of their asses doesn’t appear to be an option.
Join the ACLU and Over 400 Artists to Defend Free Speech (American Civil Liberties Union) Or don’t. They haven’t got a case. (FCC Chair Defends Comments, Says Kimmel Not Suspended Because of Government Action)
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract (404 Media) Good luck with that.
Trump’s Tax Cut Is Underwater. Can a ‘Refund Boom’ Save It? (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
Trump’s immigration crackdown could stunt his blockbuster economic aims (Neil Irwin/Axios) Or not.
How Should a DOJ Political Appointee Think About a Trump-Weaponized DOJ? (Jack Goldsmith/Executive Functions) It’s payback time!
Open-Air Extortion Markets (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues carrying water for the Left.
Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars (Ted Mann/Bloomberg) That whining sound you hear is all of the Wokerati oxen being gored.
The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy (Matt Ford/New Republic) And about time, too.
Trump to Redirect $2.4 Billion in California High-Speed Rail Aid (Sri Taylor/Bloomberg) The winning never stops.
Man Arrested After Pointing Laser at Trump’s Chopper