Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
12th February 2026

Trump Plans Denaturalization Crackdown
Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials (NBC News)
Bondi refuses to apologize for DOJ handling of Epstein files during heated hearing (CBS News)
Trump Can’t Cancel Elections. He Could Undermine Them. (Sean Morales-Doyle/New York Times)
‘Zionism’ Is Splitting MAGA in Two (The Bulwark) They hope, they hope, they hope….
About 6 in 10 think Trump has gone too far when it comes to deploying federal immigration agents in major U.S. cities. (AP-NORC) According to the Narrative.
U.S. judge rejects BBC’s stay application in Trump defamation case (Reuters)
ICE Is on a Dark Path. Congress Must Act Now. (New York Times)
Americans think everyone is corrupt (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring) Gee, I wonder why?
Making America Stagnate Again (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks. Since Krugman’s predictions have failed every single time so far, this makes me optimistic.
Illinois AG sues to prevent Trump admin. from cutting $600M in public health funds from 4 states (ABC7) Because, as we all know, public health is TOTALLY the resposibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)
Lawmakers demand DOJ stop tracking lawmakers’ Epstein files searches (NBC News) Gee, I wonder why?
Senate Democrat aims to put members on record opposing Maxwell pardon (Jordain Carney/Politico) Because they, not knowing Trump but knowing their fantasy version of Trump, assume that he will pardon her, and want to get their preemptive virtue-signal on record.
How Young Men View Trump 2.0 After One Year (Lucas Holtz/Third Way) At least according to the Narrative.
Minnesota AG: Feds still not cooperating on Pretti and Good investigations (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico) Seeing as how the Minnesota AG is a pro-terrorism pro-crime Black Muslim, I can’t say that I blame them.