Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
12th August 2026
There’s No Vaccine for Stupid (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark) True enough. Which side is the stupid side is, of course, up for debate.
Trump’s Vaccine Order Puts Parents In a Bind (Lisa Jarvis/Bloomberg) No, it doesn’t. It puts Wokeratchiks in a bind, but that’s different.
Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket) No, he didn’t.
WHO defends childhood immunization schedules after Trump reduction order (Sarah Davis/The Hill) Anything Trump does must be bad, by definition.
CNN Likens Trump Administration To Hitler, ‘Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels’ As they do. Surprised they didn’t include Albert Speer.
Maddow, O’Donnell Giddy About Iranian Assassination Plot Against Trump
Trump Used Air Force One Passengers As Decoys, Saved Himself (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine) If Trump does it, it MUST be bad.
Trump’s Airplane Switch Follows a Familiar Presidential Playbook (Maya Davis/Wall Street Journal) The playbook being the one that requires Narrative Media ‘journalists’ to criticize Republicans in general and Trump specifically no matter what happens.
Trump Has His Own Communist Manifesto (Keith Johnson/Foreign Policy) You can’t make this shit up.
Democrats want answers about 18-karat gold ring given to Trump (MS NOW)
Dem Senators Question Diamond Ring Gift Before Tariff Break
Morning Joe Outraged by Trump Calling Dem Candidates ‘Jihadists’ Even though they are.
We need the truth about Trump’s alleged ‘ballroom’ (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch loses his shit.
With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy (Peter Baker/New York Times) No, it became a flying target, because everybody thought Trump was still on board. These people have tofu for brains.
Trump’s Air Force One deception faces scrutiny over ‘decoy’ passengers (The Guardian) Come and get yer Narrative, right here.
Why the elaborate ruse Trump used in Turkey isn’t like other secret presidential trips (Will Weissert/Associated Press) Because anything Trump does is BY DEFINITION bad.
See How Trump’s Secret Air Force One Swap Unfolded (New York Times) Full frontal Narrative. (Reporter breaks 26-year silence on briefing that preceded Clinton’s plane swap (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Vile Plot to Rig Midterms as GOP Unnerved (New Republic) “Rig the midterms” means “keeping the Democrats from stealing elections.”.
The Five Scandals Within the “Air Force One” Scandal (Garrett Graff/Doomsday Scenario) How much hot air can they blow into this fantasy?
Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor (Liz Dye/Public Notice) Their finest hour.
Anderson Looks Forward to Trump Being in Hell, Calls Escape From Turkey ‘Dumb’
Hold Republicans Responsible for the Iran Disaster (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
Samuel Alito’s Oil Money Reveals the Worthlessness of the Supreme Court Ethics Code (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes) No, it just reveals the worthlessness of proglodyte hypocrisy. Perhaps they ought to take a look at Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.
O’Donnell: Trump Is a ‘Deeply Cowardly Man’ for Not Personally Killing Assassins
MS NOW’s Hillyard Makes Plane Switch Story About Trump Health ‘Transparency’ Maybe you can make some sense out of that—I must confess I can’t follow that twisty trail.
We Finally See the Trump Administration’s Sweeping Census Power Grab Emerge (John Light/Talking Points Memo) God forbid we should avoid counting illegal aliens.
Trump’s cost-of-living crunch (Politico) He PERSONALLY came and jacked up your prices.
Former CNN Pentagon Reporter Wonders How Trump Plane Deception Was Legal Not the sharpest knife in the drawer….
US press groups sue Donald Trump over fast access to Truth Social posts (Financial Times)
How to Survive a Republican Scandal: Imitate Trump (Will Saletan/The Bulwark) Will Saletan loses his shit.