Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
25th October 2025
Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal (Eric Lipton/New York Times)
How the scope of Trump’s White House ballroom plans has expanded: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)
It’s supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they’re getting nothing (NPR) Let’s blame Trump.
Republicans Keep Gerrymandering and I Keep Suing (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)
DHS Is Billing Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids $5,000 (Isabelle Taft/The Intercept)
Dems Claim Trump Keeping Congress in Dark on Cartel Hits
Experts: War Dept Can’t Use $130M Gift to Pay Troops Experts! That proves it!
The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela (The Atlantic)
Chicago Federal Judge Hauls Bovino in to Court (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
Morning Joe: ‘Everybody’ Outside DC Finds Trump’s Ballroom Plans ‘Infuriating’
Burnin’ Down the House — Before the orange cyclone hit town, Washington was a far more staid place. (Maureen Dowd/New York Times) Maureen Dowd is still alive?
Newsom Says Trump Is ‘Rigging the Election’ With Federal Poll Monitors (Guy Marzorati/KQED) And he’s encouraging crime by flooding the streets with cops and soldiers!
G. Elliot Morris on Trump’s dire polling (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice) He means the polls that everyone is ignoring because they’re obviously fake.
Can anyone stop J.D. Vance becoming president? (Freddy Gray/Spectator) I hope not.
How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House (Washington Post)
In Florida, Obamacare Price Hikes Pose an Outsized Threat (Patricia Mazzei/New York Times) I guess that’s why they called it the AFFORDABLE Care Act — a typical Democrat lie.
Trump’s shutdown funding workarounds are on shaky legal ground (Emily Peck/Axios)
PBS Claims Redistricting ‘Race To The Bottom’ Is GOP’s Fault
These Judges Are Warning Us We’re on the Fast Track to Martial Law (Slate)
Leftist Musicians, Record Labels Meltdown Over Spotify Allowing ICE Ads
Trump Leaves Behind a Reeling Washington to Chase a Deal With China (New York Times) Reeling!
RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts (Hannah Harris Green/The Guardian) The ‘health experts’ that change the Food Pyramid every five years? Those health experts?
Shutdowns began as a way to enforce federal law. Now Trump is using it to take more power (Stephen Groves/Associated Press) Blame the Democrats. They’re the ones causing the shutdown.
Trump Is Actually Failing Fast–and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It (Virginia Heffernan/New Republic) Actually, he seems to be winning every day. Wonder what the weather is like on her planet.