Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
12th October 2025
Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction (Daniel Dale/CNN) “Face check” in Media-speak actually means “Narrative gaslighting”.
Rep. Claudia Tenney: Create Trump Peace Prize
Purge Politics: Jeffries Pledges Legal Retaliation When Democrats Take Power
Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on (NPR)
‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities? (Maanvi Singh/The Guardian) How stupid are the people who write for The Guardian?
Purge, Merge, and Surge (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?) Since the author is evidently a Democrat, I would say “No”.
European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists (Jennifer Rankin/The Guardian) To The Guardian, there is no ‘right’ but the ‘far right’.
Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok (David Frum/The Atlantic)
Maga figures back Bukele’s call for Trump to crack down on US judges (Jason Wilson/The Guardian) MAGA is the New Nigger.
More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated (CNN) Yeah, theu re-hired the ones they actually wanted to keep, avoiding lawsuits from those they wanted to get rid of..
‘Using us as political pawns’: federal workers reel over threats of firings and withheld back pay (Michael Sainato/The Guardian) The Democrats certainly are.
Trump loves his tariffs. Too bad he’s wrong about them. (Glenn C. Altschuler/The Hill)
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. (Lydia DePillis/New York Times) “Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.” Yeah, getting rid of special treatment will have that effect.
Kilmar Abrego’s court victory could end Trump’s reign of retaliation (Nick Akerman/The Hill)
MSNBC Spreads Fake News That ICE Zip-Tied Children, Fox Debunk