Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
24th February 2026
Lessons from the Minnesota’s Civil Contempt Case (Roger Parloff/Lawfare)
Margin of Error? CNN’s Cornish Cites ‘ONE Republican’ to Suggest Trump’s Losing Fans
Hegseth Jokes About Throwing Off Pentagon Pizza Tracking
ABC LOSES IT Over Patel in Milan, Cites Iran, Guthrie for Why He Shouldn’t Have Gone
The View Hates Patel Partying at Olympics, Demands He Prepare for War With Iran I wasn’t aware that the FBI had any role in war with Iran.
The Supreme Court Spurns a Presidential Power Grab (Ilya Somin/The Dispatch) Ilya Somin is a libertarian lawyer who is pretty sound on everything outside of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
MAGA Attacks Gavin Newsom Over SAT, Reading Remarks in Atlanta (Khaleda Rahman/Newsweek) There’s that MAGA guy again. He really gets around.
New Polling Data Shows Immigration Enforcement Is Costing Republicans Their Own Voters (Austin Kocher) Or so they would have you believe.
Trump administration expands efforts to dismantle the Education Department (Juan Perez Jr/Politico)
If Forced to Choose, Our Military Leaders Should Follow the Law Not the President–Like Ulysses S. Grant (Kori Schake/The UnPopulist) Of course; but all this talk of ‘illegal orders’ is designed to leave the impression in people’s minds that Trump is actually giving illegal orders—a proposition for which neither evidence nor argument is given. It’s just hints and innuendo, intended to undermine Trump’s authority without leaving any actual statement for which they can be held accountable. (Jeanine Pirro’s office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News))
Utah Map Decision Could Hand Democrats a Seat
Maryland Sues to Block ICE Detention Facility
Student ICE Protests Lead To Lockdowns, Debate Over Discipline In Pennsylvania Schools
MS NOW Lauds Comparison of ICE to KKK; Allows Lies About ICE Funding
Why Won’t the White House Cut Tucker Loose? (Will Sommer/The Bulwark) Perhaps because the White House doesn’t hate the same people that The Bulwark hates?
Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
PUBLICITY STUNT: Soros-Funded Fake News Outfit Co-Hosting Anti-Trump SOTU Boycott
Trump on Mar-a-Lago Shooting: ‘Lot of People Gunning for Me’
Nets Continue to Freak Out Over Kash Patel, OMIT White House ‘Angel Mom’ Event
Kash Patel’s Olympic outing sparks scrutiny (Cate Martel/The Hill)
Trump team on damage control after Huckabee comments on Israel (Felicia Schwartz/Politico)
Trump faces midterms reality check (Politico)
Most Americans say Trump is growing erratic with age, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters) Come and get your Narrative, hot off the press….
Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump (Stephen Fowler/NPR)
Trump is about to start a war he hasn’t bothered to explain (Paul Waldman/Public Notice) Oh, he explained it; you just wouldn’t listen.
What a mission-driven press must do in this time of crisis (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)
Meddling with private business need not spiral after Trump (Washington Post)
‘Crisis of his own making’: Donald Trump weighs another war with Iran (Financial Times)
Kimmel Bashes Trump, Daily Show Praises Canadian Health Care After Hockey Wins
Trump Angered by Fresh Slide in Polls as Even Fox Admits He’s Tanking (New Republic) Or so they would have you believe.
Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases (Eli Hager/ProPublica) They’re still ILLEGAL immigrants.
Minnesota faith groups sue DHS over access to immigrant detainees (Paul O’Donnell/RNS)
PBS Hosts Historian Meacham: Trump Is Like McCarthy, Jesse Jackson Kept ‘Hope Alive’
Donald Trump’s state of mind is a global risk (Edward Luce/Financial Times) The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are on the case.
Why The State Of The Union Boycotters Have It Right (Brian Beutler/Off Message) It’s less effort than sticking their fingers in their ears and saying NA NA NA NA NA NA NA loudly.
The Movement: How anti-MAGA Republicans are plotting to take back the party (Emily Brooks/The Hill) Good luck with that.
Attack of the Zombie Tariffs (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks. Krugman quits the pretence of being an economist and puts on his Narrative Media panties.
Trump’s new tariffs are just as illegal as his old tariffs (Judd Legum/Popular Information) We’ll find out, won’t we?
The Unending Trump Tariff Mess (Wall Street Journal)
Trump Stole Your Money. He Won’t Give It Back. (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box) Much like what you want to do to ‘rich’ people.
More Democrats to Ditch Trump’s SOTU Address Good. Fewer Democrats to indulge in rude and disrespectful performance theater, like Pelosi tearing up her copy of Trump’s speech on national TV.
Report: Trump Just One More Assassination Attempt Away From A Free Third Term (Babylon Bee)