Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
22nd December 2025
Sen. Paul: Oil Tanker Seizures ‘A Prelude to War’
Vance tries to weather the MAGA storm at Turning Point (Andrew Howard/Politico) MAGA is the New Nazi.
ABC News Breathlessly Joins Fake ‘Cognitive Decline’ Drumbeat
The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
Colorado Leaders Appeal Trump’s Denial of Disaster Declarations
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (New York Times)
MAGA’s Manly Manufacturing Misfire (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks.
JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’ (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast) I’m surprised it took this long.
Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts (Katharine Houreld/Washington Post) Because, as we all know, Congolese rape survivors are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.
How President Trump reshaped capitalism in 2025 (Maria Aspan/NPR) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘capitalism’; what people are bitching about is ‘industrialism’, which would be the same under socialism, as the history of the Soviet Union makes clear.
Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man (Ian Parker/New Yorker)
‘Our MAGA Civil War Is Spreading’ (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)
Trump and Co. Can’t Keep Their Lies Straight (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
Heritage staffers walk out amid latest strife at MAGA institution (Washington Post) MAGA is the New Nazi.