Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
18th October 2025
Swalwell: When we’re in majority, ICE masks coming off (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
FEMA Cuts Disaster Aid, Leaving States Fending for Themselves (Scott Dance/New York Times) Because, as we all know, disaster aid is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal tazpayer.
Donald Trump’s Dream Palace of Puffery (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force (Heather Knight/New York Times)
Joe Rogan is unpleasantly surprised by Trump’s actions. He’s hardly alone (Aaron Blake/CNN)
How dozens of Trump’s donors have benefited from his second term (Financial Times)
The Smart People Can’t Accept Trump Isn’t Hamas or Hitler or Stalin
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history (Matthew Wollin/Public Notice)
Donald Trump: America First globalist (Marc Caputo/Axios)
Trump Says $20 Billion Project Schumer Wants Is ‘Pretty Much Dead’ (Bloomberg)
Republican Frustration With Kristi Noem Has Reached a Boiling Point (NOTUS)
Joe Rogan Rips Trump for Setting a ‘Dangerous Precedent’ (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
GOP senators worry about Trump, Hegseth shutdown moves (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First (Paul Krugman)
Universities Are Standing Up to Trump (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns (New Republic)
The resistance reaches into Trump country (Waging Nonviolence)
Trump preparing to reopen Alaska wildlife refuge for oil drilling (Adam Federman/Politico)
Trump’s Very Own Basket of Deplorables (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball (Andy Kroll/New Yorker)
Propaganda Puppet Kimmel: Trump Is “Pretending There’s Chaos” For “A Military Takeover”
The Pro-Massacre, Pro-Segregation, Pro-Eugenics Administration (Dan Holtmeyer/Liberal Currents)
“Outraged” Trump Refuses To Adhere To Global Carbon Tax On Shipping
Scoop: Warren pushes White House to release jobs report during shutdown (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
Putin Plays to Trump’s Ego as U.S. Wavers on Ukraine Aid (New York Times)
Trump Pushes Indiana Lawmakers to Redraw State Maps (Tyler Pager/New York Times)
What Trump Is Really Up to in Chicago, According to JB Pritzker (Dasha Burns/Politico)
Dear Mr. President, Americans Don’t Care Who Owns Donetsk, So Why Risk WW3 By Sending Tomahawks?
“I’m not a king,” Trump says ahead of nationwide No Kings protests (Josephine Walker/Axios)
MSNBC’s ICE-Breaker Jacob Soboroff Touts Fear: We May Not Have a 2026 Election
Fmr CNN Host Don Lemon: ‘Get a Gun’ in Case ICE Shows Up
Don Lemon tells Black, Brown citizens to carry guns in case ICE shows up (Fox News)
PBS Host Geoff Bennett Prods Retired Justice Kennedy to Condemn Current Court
CNN Admits There’s Some Merit to Bolton Classified Info Indictment
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged. (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Greenlight Chicago Military Takeover (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
Former WH Special Consul Cobb: Bolton Indictment Has Legal Merit
Trump admin cancels more than $11 billion in mostly blue state projects (Jason Lalljee/Axios)
White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents (Aamer Madhani/Associated Press)
Public Health Professor Warns Trump’s ‘Eugenics’ Policy Echoes Nazism (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)
The Shutdown is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind. (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
Voting Rights Act faces a near-death experience at US Supreme Court (Jan Wolfe/Reuters)
How the shutdown enabled the Trump administration’s mass firing spree (Emily Peck/Axios) Well, it looks as if the Narrative ‘journalists’ are not totally stupid.
PBS Whines Trump, GOP Won’t Buckle On Shutdown
With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department (Washington Post)