Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
21st October 2025
The shutdown message lawmakers are hearing from constituents: ‘Keep up the fight’ (Kevin Frey/MSNBC)
‘Who cares?’ About 7 million people, that’s who (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis) Present company excluded, of course.
Why Trump Turned to the Sewer (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
Shutdown Imperils Dozens of Head Start Preschool Programs Which have been demonstrated to have exactly zero impact.
Trump reposts AI-generated video of plane dumping sludge on No Kings protesters (Lauren Aratani/The Guardian) Trump says what we are all thinking.
MSNBC Struggles to Find Illegality with Government Stretching Dollars
CNN Anchor Whitfield Weirdly Questions Trump Making A ‘Deal’ To End War In Ukraine
Trump’s Plan To Remain on His Throne (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)
BREAKING: Colombia’s President Petro Threatens To ‘Get Rid of Trump’
I don’t see any reduction in TDS (plus, MSNBC rebrands itself) (The New Neo)
Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
Donald Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality (Paul Krugman)
The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’ (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo) So subtle that everybody missed it.
Stage 5 TDS: Deranged De Niro Calls For Leftists To “Fight It Out” With “Nazis”
Steve Bannon and the Murderers and Hitmen Who Became His ‘Besties’ (Jonathan D. Karl/The Atlantic) “man who has Trump’s ear”? Presumably the one that was shot….
Trump’s Venezuela operation expands in the dark (Axios)
Why many transgender Americans are preparing to flee the country (Vox) Good riddance. Let them afflict somewhere else.
MAGA’s cancellation spree (Axios) There’s that MAGA guy again.
The Golden Age of Sh*tposters (William Kristol/The Bulwark) Such as the Kristol Krew at the Bulshitwark.