Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
21st October 2026
Stop Appeasing Russia (New York Times) A headline that never appeared in the NYT prior to the fall of communism in 1991.
CNN Vows Further Legal Action if Air Force One Ban Continues (Jenna Monnin/The Washington Sun)
Kansas Man Charged Over ‘Let’s Shoot Trump’ Posts
Trump sued over 50% tariffs on Canada in latest trade challenge (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
MS NOW Decries Trump’s Response to French Riots While Blaming His Policies For Unrest
Trump Jr. Privately Breaks With His Dad (The Atlantic)
Trump finds ominous campaign message in French riots (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
Nets Gush ‘Struggling’ GOP Have ‘Combative’ Trump, Dems ‘Riding a Wave of Concern’
NPR Can Find No Labels for Left-Wing ‘No Kings’ Rallies, Only Joy
Trump Pushes to Evict the Press From the White House (New York Times)
MAGA Inc. Unleashes Millions to Turn Out Republicans At the Polls (New York Times) There’s that MAGA guy again. And now he’s apparently incorporated!
Trump Can No Longer Mask His Real Agenda (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times) The mind-readers (and gaslighters) of the NYT are on the case.
Why Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Trump (Maria Varenikova/New York Times) The mind-readers of the NYT are on the case. Too bad that they seem to forget that without Trump Zelensky wouldn’t have any gloves to take off.
Sen. Slotkin Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Trump Remarks
MS NOW’s O’Donnell Claims Trump Is Funding Wars Against U.S. Troops
CNN warns Trump White House: Restore Air Force One access or face further legal action (Brian Stelter/CNN) Big talk from a very small man.
Trump keeps promising ‘goodies’ on the campaign trail ??? but only if Republicans win (NBC News) As if that weren’t every Democrat platform ever.
The Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal (ProPublica) So secret that even ProPuiblica knows about it.
Some on DOJ’s 20,000 “likely” noncitizen list in Calif. appear to be U.S.-born (NPR) Appear! That proves it!
Democrats Have a Wide Lead in Our New Poll as Trump Slides (Nate Cohn/New York Times) Of course—in their poll.
Trump Approval Hits New Low Two Weeks Before Midterms, Poll Finds (New York Times)
Fears of a post-midterms Trump rampage spur ‘brutal’ internal jockeying (CNN)
MS NOW’s Al Sharpton Sets Up Dem Congresswoman to Smear ICE, ‘Racist’ Trump
Trump is Destroying Americans’ Healthcare (Paul Krugman) Obama already did that. Krugman must have missed it.
Desire for change, anti-Trump feelings fuel Democrats’ midterms advantage: CNN poll (CNN) Mostly anti-Trump feelings and gaslighting by the Narrative Media in support thereof.
Trump leans into unprecedented power ahead of midterm elections (Franco Ordoñez/NPR) Funny now Democrats are complaining about Trump acting like a Democrat President.
The Hunting of Ilhan Omar (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times) Pushing the Narrative ahead of the mid-terms. One hand washes the other.
Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border (CNN) Cue hand-wringing and pearl-clutching.
Trump bulldozes a golf course and the rule of law (Liz Dye/Public Notice) C’mon, Trump has built more golf courses than this chick has played.
America Needs to Reckon With What Trump 2.0 Has Done. Planning Should Start Now. (David Kaye/Slate)
Trump is the ‘principal enemy of the U.S.’ for helping Russia, veteran foreign analyst says (MS NOW) They just wish they were in charge of foreign policy rather that, you know, the guy the Constitution put in charge of foreign policy.
How Low Can Vivek Go? — Trump and his cronies keep using slurs like they’re going out of style–which, to be fair, they are. (Jim Swift/The Bulwark) Writers at the Bullshitwark are pretty handy with the slurs, as it happens, so I guess they’re the experts.
CNN Poll: Democrats Open 10-Point Congressional Lead Sure, I believe a CNN poll that puts Democrats ahead.
Justice Department IG refuses to investigate botched Reflecting Pool case after Trump’s false vandalism claims (NBC News) They have to put ‘false’ in the headline so you know what the Narrative is.
Socialists Condemn Elon Musk For Redistributing Wealth (Babylon Bee) There’s no pleasing some people.
George W. Bush’s Brother Backs Talarico and Bashes Ken Paxton (Michelle Del Rey/The Washington Sun) RINOs gotta RINO.
Pollster Cited By NY Times, Other Outlets Admits It’s Fake
STUDY: Broadcast Networks Maintain Their Perfect 100% Negative Record on Kash Patel
Amanpour Uses Zacharia Firing to Warn of ‘Far-Right’ ‘Misogyny’ It wasn’t the ‘far-right’ that jumped all over her, but the Narrative Media. Get those blinders off, Amanpour.
In Trump’s World of International Diplomacy, Insults Are a One-Way Street (Peter Baker/New York Times) Much like the NYT.
Ilhan Omar reappears to ask for cash donations “to fight Trump”
The Bill for Trumpism Comes Due (David Frum/The Atlantic) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ except in the minds of Wokerati attempting to use Trump as a stick to beat everybody they don’t like.