Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
1st August 2026
6 of the Wildest Details From the WSJ’s Trump Fundraising Report (Nia Prater/New York Magazine) Here’s the playbook: 1. A Narrative Media ‘journalist’ cobbles together a menage of slur and inuendo about Trump; 2. Another Usual Suspect takes the first report as gospel-truth and proceeds to expand on it; 3. The rest of the Narrative Media pile on, just ‘reporting what’s in the news’. These people are shameless.
A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Coral Davenport/New York Times) Note the statist assumption: Deregulating a program ‘upends’ it.
Florida Man Gets 2 Years for Threatening Trump I’m willing to bet that he wasn’t a Republican.
Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts (Associated Press) They’re just pissed that they didn’t think of it first.
The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China (Peter Jamison/Washington Post) If there actually is a “Trump country”, I want to move there.
MD Gov. Wes Moore: ‘Concerned’ Trump Will Interfere in Midterms In other words, they’re worried that the election will actually be more honest.
He’s Making It Worse on Purpose (Jim Swift/The Bulwark) Nobody hates like the Kristol Krew.
Why Trump is at war with the International Criminal Court (Vox) Because they declared war on him.
‘It Wasn’t Part of Trump’s Plans’: Venezuela’s Feeble Earthquake Response Undermining US Credibility (Eva Hartog/Politico) Because, as we all know, earthquake ‘response’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.
Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (New York Times) The Narrative Media would rather we didn’t have any arctic ships.
The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump (New York Times) Actually, they’re fleeing the New York Times.
NBC Mourns Spanish Border Crisis Has ‘Been Seized On By President Trump’
Obama described Trump as an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr a ‘f****** moron’ in call to Fauci, diaries reveal (Erin Keller/The Independent) I’m sure Trump would say the same about Obama and Obama Jr. (oops, my mistake—there is no Obama Jr.)