Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
4th October 2025
Trust In Media Among Americans Hits Record Low: Gallup Survey
Declining American Democracy: Trump is a Symptom, Not the Cause (Paul Krugman) Krugman is both a sympton and a cause of declining American education.
White House Keeps 45 DOGE Employees Working Despite Shutdown (Gregory Korte/Bloomberg) The horror!
Trump spiritual advisory pastor to serve only 6 months after molesting a 12-year-old for years (Daniel Villarreal/LGBTQ Nation) SCRAAAAAAPE that barrel….
Bezos’ Washington Post Hires New MAGA-Friendly Columnists (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast) That MAGA guy really gets around.
Get Ready for Bad Bunny’s Explosive Super Bowl Trump Protest (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
‘No Way’: Trumpworld Won’t Help Madison Cawthorn Attempt a Political Comeback (Reese Gorman/NOTUS)
Kimmel Disparages ICE, Says Super Bowl Presence Is About Tackling Brown People
Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
Rep. Jeffries: Trump ‘Unhinged, Unserious’ Since Shutdown
MSNBC’s Ruhle Tries to Spin Comey Prosecution as Free Speech Assault
Welcome to the Era of “Kavanaugh Raids” (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
Joy Behar Melts Down Over ICE Enforcing Immigration at Super Bowl
Government shutdown updates: Leavitt says Trump exploring cutting aid to Portland (ABC News)
Chicago and the Horrors of Carte Blanche (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)
RFK Jr. adds to Team Trump’s pattern of punishing whistleblowers (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
Most Trump supporters back ObamaCare subsidies’ extension: Survey (Surina Venkat/The Hill)
NBC’s Melvin Tells Speaker Johnson ‘We Can’t Get to’ ‘Misleading’ Claim About Illegals
The Supreme Court Is Creating a King (Matt Ford/New Republic)
Groups File Suit Over Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee (New York Times)
Unions, Employers Sue to Block Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
US Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants (Andrew Chung/Reuters)
Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
They Radicalized Themselves (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
Getting Away with Murder (David Cole/The New York Review of Books)
New York Magazine Irked that Jimmy Fallon Hasn’t Fully Embraced Trump Hate
The Sufferable Evil — Chicago and the End of American Liberty. (Mike Brock/Notes From The Circus)
Atlanta Spanish-language journalist deported (Tim Darnell/Atlanta News First)
Chicago alderperson says federal agents handcuffed her at Humboldt Park medical facility (ABC7)
Trump Administration Is Said to Plan to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low (New York Times) The horror!
Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025 (Zachary B. Wolf/CNN) Well, he’d better hurry up, it will soon be 2026.
Democrats’ defiance on shutdown shows a new, tougher approach to Trump (Washington Post) Not as if they have a choice….
Partisan Shutdown Messages Could Hurt Civil Service, Experts Warn (Eileen Sullivan/New York Times) The myth of the ‘non-partisan civil service’ is one of the most pernicious in the modern political fantasyland. Republican or Democrat, the civil service are statists first and last: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” — Benito Mussolini.
Trump’s Boat Strike Cartel War Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense So Far (W.J. Hennigan/New York Times) Well, it’s yanking your chain pretty effectively. That’s got to be worth something.
Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes (Tony Romm/New York Times) And this surprises you?
The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities (New York Times) ‘Billionaire’ is the NYTs term to point out a candidate for the Two Minute Hate (unless it’s George Soros, of course).
There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won. (Timothy Noah/New Republic) Not mentioned: The ‘New Deal masterpieces’ in question were paintings in the style later termed Soviet Realism.
Did Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington work? It’s complicated. (Reuters) ‘It’s complicated’ means ‘Yeah, it worked, but we don’t want to say that’.
MAGA wages campaign to redefine “hate” after Kirk killing (Axios) There’s that MAGA guy again. (I guess a bullet to the throat doesn’t fit the proglodyte definition of ‘hate’.)
How Maga cheerleaders have infiltrated the White House press corps (David Smith/The Guardian) Didn’t know that MAGA guy had cheerleaders at his disposel. Very cunning.
The Terrifying New Memo Trump Could Use to Go After His Opposition (Tessa Stuart/Rolling Stone) Nothing scares a ‘journalist’ like a terrifying memo.
CNN Pushes HARD to Blame Trump, Not Russia, for Greenland Military Exercises
Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago (Siri Chilukuri/The Guardian) And protesters doing the same, of course, but the Guardian can’t mention that.
Kash Patel’s Challenge Coin Is Perfect for Him (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic) Trump cooties!
With a Democratic Party leadership vacuum, Obama steps up his criticism of Trump (NBC News)
Federal Judge to Decide on Alleged ICE Violations in Chicago