Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
23rd March 2026
CNN’s Bash Sets Up Hakeem Jeffries to Tell Trump To ‘Keep His Reckless Mouth Shut’
jTrump issues his most bizarre endorsement yet (David Nir/The Downballot)
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids (ProPublica) They say that like it was a bad thing.
‘No practical use’: TSA experts say Trump’s ICE deployments won’t help with airport security (Eric Katz/GovExec.com) It’s not intended to be ‘of practical use’. It’s intended to put pressure on Democrats in Congress by pointing out that their attempt to pressure Republicans by inconveniencing the American people will have the effect of inconveniencing the Democrat base of pro-illegal-immigrant activists. Let’s see who blinks first. I’m betting that Trump wins this one.
Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian) Oh, is Pete a Muslim?
Jeffries tells Trump to ‘keep his reckless mouth shut’ (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico) Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of doing what they are doing
To Trump, America’s judges are either minions or traitors (Svante Myrick/The Hill)
Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks.
It’s three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump (Thomas Frank/Politico) Not surprising, considering how much Democrats steal.
ICE Invades Airports Across the US (Wired)
How Trump Killed Conservatism (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)
There’s no way to redeem Trump’s dismal second presidency (John Kenneth White/The Hill) Trump must be doing something right, all the right people are his enemies.
Trump Blows Up DHS Deal, Chooses ICE Airport Chaos Instead (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)
The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots (Ian Millhiser/Vox) More accurately, thousands of ILLEGAL ballots.
GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.