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.)
August 4th, 2026 at 10:46
Ya know, I have to say… this man has me greatly conflicted. While I find I support many of the things he is doing (and can ignore the method he uses to get there, because the system is broken and doesn’t work right), this one kinda crosses the line for me?
“Give me money, and I’ll tell you what the news announcement will be 30-minutes before its released” would be the picture-perfect definition of trading on insider information. Like to a ‘T’, it is how corrupt wall street beats everyone else (“blue horse show likes annacot steel”), and they position ahead of the announcement, then sell to the suckers that don’t have preferred access. Arguing it’s available to everyone willing to pay, does not make it right.