Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
7th January 2026
Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6 (Kyle Cheney/Politico) But it will stick to Biden forever.
5 years ago today (Politico) Whatever happens, everything is/was/will be Trump’s fault.
Senate Democrats Say Rubio Has Had a ‘Full MAGA-Lobotomy’ (NOTUS) As if Rubio cares what Senate Democrats say.
Court watchers fear Emil Bove’s ‘level of allegiance’ to Trump (Erica Orden/Politico)
Trump’s Venezuela adventure is already a propaganda disaster (Paul Waldman/Public Notice) On his planet.
Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan–and about MAGA Voters (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greta Greg Sargent loses his shit.
Where Trump could strike next (Sean McMinn/Politico) Minnesota, I hope.
Trump May Have Accidentally Pardoned the Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber (Ankush Khardori/Politico)
NPR Faults Trump Labeling Maduro ‘Dictator’ After Years of Smearing Him Same Way
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers (Popular Information)
There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times) By ‘American democracy’, of course, the Narrative Media mean ‘Democrat rule’.
Lawmakers battle over how — and whether — Jan. 6 should be remembered (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
More than 2 million Epstein documents still unreleased, officials say (Kelly Kasulis Cho/Washington Post) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!
DOJ says millions of Epstein files have yet to be released (Kyle Cheney/Politico) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!
Trump administration sparks midterm vaccine war (Caitlin Owens/Axios) Because, as we all know, if vaccines aren’t on the government vaccine recommended list, no parents will have their kid receive that vaccination.
“Neocon smear”: MAGA rejects pure isolationism after Maduro capture (Tal Axelrod/Axios) The Narrative Media mind-readers are out in force.
Republican-turned-Democrat George Conway is running for Congress in New York to ‘fight Trumpism’ (Allan Smith/NBC News) One benefit of Trump—he makes the RINOs show their true colors.
Jan. 6 Never Ended (Jamie Raskin/New York Times) On his planet.
US abandons child exploitation and drug cases to prioritize ICE, Democrats allege (Sam Levin/The Guardian) As if dealing with one isn’t dealing with the others. These people cannot connect the dots to save their lives.
Dems use Venezuela to hammer affordability issues at home (Politico) Gas was $2.19 in Plano, Texas, yesterday. That’s the kind of ‘affordability crisis’ I can get behind.
Trump’s Assault on the Environment Has Been Even Worse Than Experts Predicted (Thor Benson/Rolling Stone) I remember when Rolling Stone wrote about music. Yes, I am that old.
MAGA’s Foundational Lie (Jeffrey Goldberg/The Atlantic) MAGA is the New Nazi.
Sweeping Minimum-Wage Hikes Take Hold Across the Country (Jared Mitovich/Wall Street Journal) And yet proglodytes blame the ‘affordability crisis’ on Trump. What do they think makes prices go up?
U.S. allies warn Trump over threats to seize Greenland (Alexander Smith/NBC News) Trump has made no such threats. He just said he thinks Greenland is important to our national security. The rest is proglodyte fever dreams.
‘Biggest Mistake’: MAGA Loses It After Hilton Allegedly Cancels ICE Agents’ Reservations (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost) ‘Loses it’? Say rather ‘wins it’.
January 6th and the Never-Ending Coup (William Kristol/The Bulwark) William Kristol and the never-ending lies.
January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history (Sam Levine/The Guardian) Proglodytes always accuse you of what they are doing—or planning to do.
On January 6, PolitiFact Boasts of Its Activism Against Conservatives on Riot Narratives
Trump Mocks Paid Pro-Maduro Protesters
January 6 Is Five Years Behind Us. The Threat It Exposed Is Not. (Adam Kinzinger) Democrats feel threatened! *yawn*
History Bends Toward Distortion When Accountability is Denied (Harry Dunn/Meidas+) And nobody can deny accountability like proglodytes.
Trump Chooses the Path of Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan (David Rothkopf/Need to Know) Don’t forget Lenin and Mao, heroes of the Left.
Words & Phrases? — Donald Trump’s pathetic and grammatically flawed attempt to affix … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian)
The Emperor’s New Oil Wealth (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks.
Trump triggers a renaissance for grand juries (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
The Military Isn’t MAGA — The Uniform Code of Military Justice should not suppress free speech. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic) The UCMJ supresses all sorts of ‘free speech’. That’s one of the rights on which one accepts constraints when one joins the military.
Awkward: Biden Forced To Pay Trump The $25 Million Bounty For Capturing Maduro (Babylon Bee).
Europe and Rest of World Try to Come to Terms With Trump the Imperialist (Steven Erlanger/New York Times) What worries them is Trump the competent imperialist—Obama and Biden were incompetent imperialists, so nothing to worry about.