Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
2nd December 2025
Record-setting personnel issues are marring Trump’s second term (Politico)
Trump says Hegseth denied issuing order to kill boat crew (Washington Post)
Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’ (Miranda Devine/New York Post) “Goveernment service’ at the upper levels is always inevitably about resumé-building: Upper level jobs rarely last beyond two years, and always top out at four, because a new administration wants it’s own people in place. Exceptions to this rule (and every rule has exceptions) in the last decade can be counted on the fingers of two hands.
Despite Supreme Court Wins, Elite D.O.J. Unit Has Seen Mass Turnover (New York Times) See above comment about resumé-building—the time to take advantage of ‘Supreme court wins’ for a lawyer is while they are fresh in everyone’s memory. “Law firm X is hiring attorney Y, fresh off of wins in the Supreme Court.” The career usefulness of a government job is a rapidly depreciating asset. The news would be that there isn’t mass turnover.
Lawmakers warn Hegseth may have committed war crimes following second-strike report (Jacob Wendler/Politico) ‘War crimes’ is the New Nazi.
Watch: Unrepentant Trump Unloads On Fake News Reporters
Trump: Pro-crypto or Pro-crime? (Paul Krugman) Paul Krugman: Evil or just stupid?
‘Time is not our friend’: Health care scramble begins amid mixed signals from Trump (Jordain Carney/Politico) Imagine a world in which the health care industry is not depedant on ‘signals’ from a politician.
War Crime…or Murder? (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Jennifer Rubon: Evil or just stupid?)
A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact (ProPublica) They say that like it was a bad thing. It’s certainly a backhanded criticism of the Trump administration.
GOP lawmakers lack confidence in Trump’s plans to tackle costs (Alexander Bolton/The Hill) More mind-reading from The Hill.
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney (New York Times) I guess that’s the New Narrative.
The Democrat/Regime Media Plot Against Pete Hegseth Is a Joke (Kurt Schlichter/Townhall)
‘Inside NYT’s Hoax Factory’: Trump’s AI/Crypto Czar Dismisses Hit-Piece As ‘Nothing Burger’
When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker) It’s all Trump’s fault because Orange Man Bad.
‘Kill Them All’ Sums Up Trump’s Policies Perfectly (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)
France & UK Still Insist On Sending Troops To Ukraine, In Effort To Sabotage Trump Peace Plan
War Department: WashPost ‘Falsely Quoted’ Hegseth on Narco-Boat Strikes As they do.
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. (The 19th) Not a word about her being here illegally and therefore a felon. Giving birth to a defective baby apparently absolves all sins.
Schumer: Trump pardon of former Honduras president ‘truly disgusting’ (Al Weaver/The Hill)
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders (New York Times) If you’ve got Trump Cooties, the Narrative Media will slime you every day.
ICE coming for Minneapolis after Trump targets Somalis (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
Why Trump’s Presidency Is All But Over: James Carville (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times) Many of them are.
Trump, 79, Can’t Keep Eyes Open in Marathon Cabinet Suck-Up (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)
It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s health (again) (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario) Nothing else is sticking, so we’ll throw this against the wall and see what happens.
A sickening moral slum of an administration (George F. Will/Washington Post)
The New York Times Busts WaPo Over Bogus Hit Piece On Hegseth
Judge Halts Trump Bid to Cut Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood
A Few Bad Men (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)
Ilhan Omar Argues She Should Be Able To Stay In Horrible Country She Hates (Babylon Bee)
Minnesota Added To Trump’s Third-World Travel Ban (Babylon B ee)