Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
23rd February 2026
Armed Man Shot Dead at Mar-a-Lago Was Fixated on Epstein Files, Text Shows (TMZ.com)
The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives (Hana Kiros/The Atlantic) Just because something saves lives doesn’t oblige the taxpayers have to pay for it.
OMISSION: Sunday Shows Mostly Ignore Latest Trump Assassination Attempt
Trump’s Netflix threat is a warning to every CEO (Peter Kafka/Business Insider) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….
A Voice Sounding Like Trump Called Into C-SPAN And His Name Was A Pseudonym Trump Has Reportedly Used (Paige Skinner/HuffPost) Reportedly! That proves it!
Neil Gorsuch has Elena Kagan dead to rights (Jason Willick/Washington Post)
Trump’s law is crushing the next generation of RFK Jr. disciples (Amanda Chu/Politico)
The Human Cost of Trump’s War on Science (Jeneen Interlandi/New York Times)
Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders (New York Times)
Fact-check: Trump’s Latest Claims on Jobs, Inflation and Crime (New York Times) Come get your Narrative…
What Trump Sells Is Impunity (Katherine Alejandra Cross/Liberal …) What are they going to do—impeach him?
Call Them What They Are — The Republican Party has become a haven for Nazi sympathizers. (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic) If they were Communist sympathizers, they’d be Democrats.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s replacement is even worse (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.
Trump’s approval rating with independents hits a new low ahead of the State of the Union (CNN) Come and get your Narrative, right here.
Trump won’t blink on tariffs ??? because he can’t (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
Trump: High Court ‘Accidentally’ Boosted Presidential Powers Every action Trump makes that is overturned by the courts is an action that a future Democrat President can’t take. It’s a win either way.
Why Tariffs Aren’t Shrinking the U.S. Trade Deficit (Wall Street Journal) The sol-called ‘trade deficit’ is a made-up thing. All trades have two sides, and all trades are balanced. The so-called ‘trade deficit’ only looks at one part of trade: goods in versus good out. The ‘trade-deficit’ hand-wringers pretend that if imports exceed exports, somehow that is a bad thing. But every trade is balanced; if imports exceed exports, it doesn’t mean that we are giving stuff away—those imports are being ‘paid for’, if not in goods then in capital flows. When imports exceed exports, that means that foreigners are sending us goods in exchage for ;pieces of paper, which is all ‘dollars’ really are these days. Who gets the better of that deal? (You’d think that a writer for the WSJ would know that—and, before they went Woke, a writer for the WSJ would know that.)
Trump Reverts to First-Term Tumult as Republican Fears Mount (Bloomberg) Or so they would have you believe.
The UK and Other Democracies Hold the Epstein Elite Accountable (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) No, just the ones they don’t like. Jennifer Rubin losing her shit doesn’t change that.
Trump’s new interest in war will end badly (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times) For Iran, perhaps. For Islam, certainly. War is a bad thing, but it’s not the worst thing, although you wouldn’t know that from listening to the Narrative media.
FLASHBACK: Media Elitists Despised Trump’s Addresses to Congress
Judge permanently blocks release of Jack Smith’s report on Trump classified documents case (Jacob Rosen/CBS News) What are they afraid of?
The SAVE Act is Christian Nationalism in Action (Pamela Herd/Can We Still Govern?) Apparently not letting Democrats cheat in elections is now ‘Christian nationalism’. I have no problem with that.
At the Spot Where Alex Pretti Was Killed (Sam Stein/The Bulwark) The Bullshitwark will preach the anti-Trump Narrative until you fall asleep.
Nicki Minaj’s social media propped up by thousands of bots, analysis finds (Jason Beeferman/Politico) If she weren’t a Trump supporter, nobody would give a shit.
Major Update: Bombshell Epstein Developments as Trump Support Falls Ahead of State of the Union and FBI Director Faces Calls to Resign (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective) Come and get your Narrative.
You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts (Liz Dye/Law and Chaos) He’s still not a prog, and that means he’s evil.
Patel sparks outrage partying with Team USA as MAGA cheers him on (The Hill) Outrage from the Usual Suspects, that is, although why anybody ought to care certainly escapes me. (The Left Is Big Mad at Kash Patel for Celebrating the Gold Medal Win With USA Hockey (Tim O’Brien/PJ Media))
MS NOW’s Velshi Whacks Trump For Criticizing SCOTUS, Leaves Out Left Doing Worse
C-SPAN: Caller ‘John Barron’ Was Not Trump
Trump Gets Back at ‘supreme court’ by Revoking Capital Letters (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)
U.S. Women’s Hockey Team declines Trump’s invitation to the State of the Union (NBC News) Hating Trump is the most important thing.
Dem AGs plot to thwart Trump election interference (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico) Proglodyte Projection: When progs accuse you of doing what they do—or plan to do.