Trump Derangement Syndrome

There was a notable event this week in the American mainstream-media landscape. Rachel Maddow, the grande dame of the vote-blue-no-matter-who crowd, said something insightful for once. She tweeted out a clip of herself speaking to fellow MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on his podcast a few weeks ago. In it, she cogently described why definitions matter and what happens when words lose their meaning. She noted how, in the run-up to the 2016 election, Trump turned the tables on his journalist opponents by appropriating the phrase ‘fake news’ to describe their reporting. As Maddow explained…

Democrats immediately seized on former president’s comments, citing it as evidence that he is unfit for re-election next November

Donald Trump has said that he will become a dictator for a day if he is re-elected.

During an interview with Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, Mr Trump was asked if he would abuse his power to seek revenge on political opponents if he returned to the White House.

“You are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Mr Hannity asked during a televised town hall event in Iowa.

“Authoritarian leaders are the antichrists of our time.”

Left-wing Jesuit priest Thomas Reese has just accused former President Donald Trump of being a form of the “antichrist.” Ordinarily, Reese spouts opinions and ideas more inane than those held by the oft-caricatured tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist but with a progressive bent almost comical in its extremity.

Sebastian Stan (Marvel’s Winter Soldier) will play a young Donald Trump in the upcoming feature film, The Apprentice, which will be flopping soon at a theater near you.

Kathy Griffin has revealed she moos like a cow and meows like a cat during yoga in order to deal with her Trump-induced PTSD.

Griffin’s career completely imploded in 2017 following her now infamous photo of her holding a severed bloody head of then-President Donald Trump.

Since then, Griffin says she has been suffering from PTSD and says it’s all Trump’s fault.

Last week, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson publicly released 90 hours of Jan. 6, 2021, security footage featuring protesters peacefully walking through the Capitol, often with the encouragement or indifference of Capitol Police officers.

The footage further delegitimizes the Biden administration, corporate media, and Jan. 6 Committee’s insistence that the 2021 Capitol protest was on par with Pearl Harbor and 9/11. It also exonerates countless peaceful protesters who have been slandered by the media and J6 Committee, harassed by Biden’s Department of Justice, and held in solitary confinement without due process.

Joe Scarborough:

"Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read.” pic.twitter.com/NC0vo48xAe

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 21, 2023

h/t XC

A Colorado judge ruled that former president Donald Trump can stay on the state’s presidential primary ballot, dismissing a 14th Amendment challenge that alleges Trump is barred from holding office again because he “engaged in an insurrection.”

Former President Donald Trump exploded less than two hours into testifying at his $250 million civil fraud trial in Manhattan on Monday — pointing at the judge while accusing him of “fraud” and calling the state attorney general a “hack.”

Trump, 77, started his testimony in hushed tones, but lost his cool after Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron threatened to throw him out for making “speeches” instead of giving direct answers on the stand.

The 2024 GOP presidential front-runner began ranting that Engoron and state Attorney General Letitia James — who is bringing the case against him — were “trying to hurt” him.