Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
5th June 2026
Trump says ‘maybe we’ll never’ take down the UFC structure outside the White House (NBC News) Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….
MAGA isn’t sold on Trump’s face on the $250 bill (Josephine Walker/Axios) There’s that MAGA guy again. (Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains.)
Trump Order Makes It Easier to Fire Agency Staffers At Will (Gregory Korte/Bloomberg) They say that like it was a bad thing.
Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick Rated ‘Not Qualified’ To Be A Federal Judge (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost) Said rating being by the A.B.A, a collection of Woke apparatchiks.
Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers (Reuters) Because, as we all know, no federal worker ought ever to be fired for any reason. ITrump makes it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers (Tami Luhby/CNN)) There’s an echo in here.
Trump Humiliated After Senators Pull Ballroom Cash (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast) Humiliated! Whether he actually is or not, he ought to be, so we’re going to treat it as fact.
Navy Vet Now Faces Murder Charge in ‘Trump House’ Death They can’t get at Trump but any random Trump supporter will do.
House approves war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran, in a rebuke of Trump (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press) He might even notice. (House Passes Dem Resolution to Block U.S. Military Action Against Iran In Narrow Vote)
House moves forward on new aid for Ukraine package, spurning Trump (Laura Kelly/The Hill) Because, as we all know, Trump deserves to be spurned early and often.
Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show (Cate Brown/The Guardian) ‘Ties’ means we can’t prove any connection but we’ll suggest it as strongly as we an without taking a chance of being sued.
Trump Suffers Crushing Poll Defeat Against Sex Attack Victim (Olivia Ralph/The Daily Beast) As if a poll (YouGov/The Economist) made by Wokerati for Wokerati had any significance.
House tensions erupt as Tlaib pushes Lebanon war powers vote (Andrew Solender/Axios) I guess it’s not allowed to notice that she support’s America’s enemies every chance she gets.
New intel chief is a partisan warrior who has the president’s ear, sources say (NBC News) Sources say! That proves it! (It’s not clear which is worse: that he is a ‘partisan warrior’ or that he ‘has the President’s ear’.)
Obscure Group With Trump Ties Plans to Route Funds to His Allies for Legal Fights (New York Times) ‘Ties’ means we can’t prove any connection but we’ll suggest it as strongly as we an without taking a chance of being sued.
Greg Bovino’s Retirement Plan? Go Full Fascist (Christopher Mathias/Talking Points Memo) The talking point is that anybody who doesn’ t parrot The Narrative is a fascist, never mind that we don’t actually know what the word really means.
The hair-loss drug Trump took for years is now absent from his medical records (Dan Diamond/Washington Post) No nit is too small to pick when it comes to Trump and the Narrative Media.
Iran war powers rebuke shows how Trump is increasingly boxed in (Aaron Blake/CNN) Or at least that’s the Narrative that we’re going to push.
Bret Baier said over a year ago that the press had a duty to scrutinize Trump family corruption. He’s since given that topic 5 minutes of airtime. (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America) Because, as we all know, that’s the most important thing he had to talk about.
A judge said the Trump administration can’t dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done. (Scott Waldman/Politico) Because, as we all know, weather researdh is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal tasxpayer.
This Is Why You Don’t Slash Humanitarian Aid (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times) Because, as we all know, hukanitarian aid is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer. (Kristof LOVES spending other people’s money.)