Trump Derangement Syndrome

Critics rounded on Donald Trump on Sunday for likening himself to Napoleon in a “dictatorial” social media post echoing the French emperor’s assertion that “he who saves his country does not violate any laws”.

The post came at the end of another tumultuous week early in Trump’s second presidency, during which acolytes questioned the legitimacy of judges making a succession of rulings to stall his administration’s aggressive seizure or dismantling of federal institutions and budgets.

His defiance of some of those orders, including one ordering a restoration of funding to bodies such as the National Institutes of Health, has led to several of the president’s opponents declaring a constitutional crisis.

These same critics were content to subvert democracy and play along as a degenerate Deep State and an even more degenerate 1st Family pretended Joe Biden was running the country.

Is it any wonder that those watching the White House are reeling after three weeks of this presidency? Dozens of executive orders have been fired off. Tens of thousands of federal employees are out of work. Leaders the world over are struggling to respond to one initiative after another.

The contrast to the mumbling torpor of President Biden’s final months could hardly be more acute. And the breadth of Trump’s onslaught? From great to small, Gaza to Ukraine, or paper drinking straws to Taylor Swift, does anything escape the attentions of the Oval Office?

One from the peanut gallery.

Make Europe Great Again. Slash foreign aid. And rid the world of paper straws, just like in America.

If U.S. President Donald Trump’s election victory was, in his words, huge, his impact back in the White House has been both chaotic and vast. He has vowed to bring glamour to the Gaza Strip, peace to Ukraine and trading partners to their knees.

His edicts are also echoing in places as disparate as the Canadian Arctic, Italy and Argentina, where populist politicians are following in Trump’s policy footsteps and casting themselves in his anti-establishment mould.

The confirmations of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to HHS and Tulsi Gabbard to DNI sent ABC News’s Joy Behar over the edge during Friday’s edition of The View. She became so unhinged that she cooked up an unfounded conspiracy theory that the reason so many GOP lawmakers had voted to confirm President Trump’s nominees was because he was threatening to kill their them and their families. And she was serious about it.

With no real arguments left, the Left is grasping at straws to fuel anti-Trump mania.

FT. WAYNE, Ind. — Sitting here at the bar/restaurant at the Ft. Wayne Hilton, a nice Midwest hotel located across the street from the gorgeous Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, I was forced to do something I don’t usually do. Watch CNN. Some rogue from hotel management decided to hold customers hostage to CNN that evening in this deeply Republican state.

Not that long ago, I frequently watched CNN. It was a reliable, respectable news outlet. Liberal but serious. But sadly, the unfortunate folks at CNN went full Trump Derangement Syndrome circa 2017. The network has never been the same. The bias is so bad and often so downright silly that — akin to reading the awful New York Times — you just shouldn’t bother, for the sake of your mental health.

Former MSNBC, ABC News, and Bloomberg hack Mark Halperin is trying to survive in independent media, which is probably not going to end well for him career-wise.

Recently, he hosted Dr. Glenn Burnett to discuss the psychological issues afflicting the TDS hordes in the wake of the dawn of America’s Golden Age.

Liberal Magazine: Hitler Knew How to Fund Science, Unlike Trump

Adolf Hitler was really a pretty good guy, according to the American Prospect. At least he knew that funding universities was a good investment and that scientific research was a national good. Donald Trump should be more like Hitler, don’tcha know?

Think of the Trump administration as a virulent but benevolent virus that has infected the monstrous, bloated, Vindmanesque blob that is the United States government. The beauty of it is that Trump, predominantly through DOGE but also through his other appointees and staffers, is using the state against itself much like a virus does. A virus will find a vulnerable cell, inject itself into it, and use the machinery of the cell to replicate itself. It turns the host cell against the organism. And that’s what Trump is doing as he infects and, hopefully, kills the hateful administrative state.

h/t DS

President Donald Trump’s legal team added new claims to its lawsuit against CBS News on Friday after 60 Minutes released the unedited transcript of former Vice President Kamala Harris’s interview that aired a month before the election.

Trump sued CBS in October for engaging in “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion,” arguing the interview’s deceptive editing made Harris look more favorable. The $10 billion lawsuit was filed five days before the election. Two days after the transcript’s release, Trump doubled the damages incurred to $20 billion.