Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
7th December 2025
Judge Rejects Trump Admin’s Bid to Toss Guantánamo Migrant Detention Suit
Have Trump’s Tariffs Gone as High as They Can Go? Businesses Hope So (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
Trump Weighs Moving on From Noem (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark) More mind-reading from the Narratve Media.
The sorry history of US policy in the Middle East (Sasha Polakow-Suransky/Financial Times)
DHS Rejects Claim ICE Ran Over Man’s Leg
Trump won’t quit the filibuster fight. Thune can’t give him what he wants. (Alex Gangitano/Politico)
Media Elitists Attack Trump’s Cruel Shutdown Strategy But Hail Democrats’ Great Retreat
Trump’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads (Jason Horowitz/New York Times)
Trump’s Top Advisers Wage Campaign to Shift His Focus to High Prices (Wall Street Journal)
Inside Trump’s transformation of the Kennedy Center (Betsy Klein/CNN)
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows (NBC News) Yet.
The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown (Robert Klemko/Washington Post)
Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post) “Echoes” means “seems like it to us”, the people who see racism as far as the eye can see.
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest (Washington Post) My, what a surprise.
America’s affordability crunch is real — and worse under Trump (Financial Times)
Trump’s son suggests president may walk away from Ukraine (Nahal Toosi/Politico)
Trump on Cuellar running as Democrat after pardon: ‘Such a lack of loyalty’ (Sophia Vento/The Hill) Expecting loyalty (or even gratitude) from a Democrat is like expecting honesty from a … Democrat.
Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal. (Jeh C. Johnson/New York Times) Let’s not confuse what The New Hitler did with what The Magic Negro did.
Trump vows to slam America’s doors shut as he heaps scorn on immigrants (Robert Tait/The Guardian)
Homan defends Trump after president calls Somali community ‘garbage’ (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
Amid Chuckles, CNN Dumps Out Early From ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ Presentation To Trump
Trump sours on Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar after issuing pardon (Jacob Wendler/Politico) Gee, I wonder why?
Land War or Self-Terrorism? (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)