Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
5th December 2025
Democrats tee off on possible Treasury corporate tax move (Jacob Fulton/Roll Call)
Prosecutor who subpoenaed Letitia James could be disqualified, judge suggests (Politico)
Politico Finally Publishes Trump-Free Epstein Story
CNN’s Cornish: Trump Admin ‘SOL’ On Confirming Possible Hegseth Replacement
N.Y. AG Disputes Acting US Attorney’s Power to Probe Trump Suits
“Impermissible”: Congress fumes over Hegseth’s Venezuela strike secrecy (Josephine Walker/Axios)
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards (Jaclyn Diaz/NPR)
Appeals court allows Trump National Guard deployment in DC to continue (Reuters)
Judge Mulls Removing Trump-Appointed Prosecutor in James Probe
Boston Judge (Again) Intervenes To Force Payments To Planned Parenthood
Trump Set to Win FIFA Peace Prize at World Cup Draw
Somali Americans Aren’t Afraid of Trump’s Bigotry (Ilhan Omar/New York Times) And Trump isn’t afraid of their bigotry, either.
DOJ claims it has the power to decide who gets Trump’s sweeping 2020 pardon (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
New York Times Mangles It: ‘Trump Calls Affordability a Con Job,’ He’s Slipping!
Trump Is Trying to Legalize Corruption by Abusing His Pardon Power (John Avlon/Rolling Stone)
Senate Dems Warn McMahon: Education Program Shifts Illegal
FDA officials said without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines have killed children. Here’s what you should know (Madison Czopek/PBS NewsHour) They have to stick that ‘without evidence’ in there so you’ll know what the Narrative is.
War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker) Propaganda is journalism, the New Yorker edition.
Trump’s Pardons Cover Every Conceivable Form of Corruption (Robert Tracinski/The UnPopulist) Except the Democrat kind.
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks (New York Times)
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people (Kylie Mohr/SFGATE)
‘DISTURBING IMAGES’: ABC Spins Resisting the Border Patrol as Victimhood
Trump reveals what he wants for the world (Nahal Toosi/Politico) More mind-reading in the Narrative Media.
Trump’s Affordability “Con Job” (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)
Trump’s Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour (New York Times) With the NYT anyway.
Scoop: New fundraising platform ignites MAGA cash clash (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
MAGA’s Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse (Paul Krugman)
Mike Johnson scrambles to pass Pentagon bill as GOP ranks seethe (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico) Seethe!
A war criminal without a war (Lisa Needham/Public Notice
For international soccer, the way to keep Trump onside is clear: Flattery (Washington Post)
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Be Illegal (Amanda Frost/New York Times) Could!
Trump’s closure of Voice of America is coming back to bite him George WIll in full TDS mode.
Trump, 79, Is Fuming Over Coverage of His Deteriorating Health (Isabel Van Brugen/The Daily Beast) Fuming!
Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents (CNN)
Trump Keeps Squeezing the Next Fed Chair (Victoria Guida/Politico)
Trump’s “Monroe Doctrine” bashes immigration and globalization (Andrew Childers/Axios)
Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump’s new policies (Associated Press) Because, as everybody knows, the welfare of refugees it TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. govenemnrt—and the U.S. taxpayers.
The Trump-Epstein Emergency Isn’t in the Files (Todd Zwillich/Off Message) But in the fever dreams of the proglodyte left.
‘Why are we letting this guy go?’ Donald Trump’s pardons upend US justice system (Financial Times)
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right (Jon Henley/The Guardian) To the Guazrdian, there is no ‘riht’ but ‘far-right’.
Post-Trump, What Happens to His War Chest? Utah Offers One Clue. (New York Times)
Heckler Calls Border Czar Homan ‘Racist’ at TPUSA Event
The Supreme Court Is Doing Everything in Its Power to Save Trump in the Midterms (Slate)
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)