Thursday, August 6, 2020
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Real Trump derangement syndrome
I have to agree with Jeff Cooper — Trump Derangement Syndrome is a stupid term, mainly because it is backward.
One would expect TDS to mean the obvious: those who still believe in Trump’s lies even when they are so obvious to the casual observer.
So, now with his make-believe world in a time of coronavirus threatening the health of all of us, I have decided to coin a new phrase: Real Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I have also constructed this handy guideline to help you figure out if you may suffer from RTDS.
• You can name two lies Barack Obama told but didn’t know that The Washington Post documented more than 16,000 lies Donald Trump has told since he became president; many are repeats, even Trump can’t make up that many different lies — can he?
• When asked why you support Trump, you respond, “He tells it like it is.”
Trump derangement syndrome: The cure | Opinion
Like many Jews and others, I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome. Every day, as I watch the news on TV and read the newspaper, I shudder in disbelief at the pathological narcissism, lying and authoritarianism, utter incompetence and corruption of Donald Trump.
Opinion: Who really has ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’? Not his critics, readers say
It’s an affliction diagnosed most often by the president’s supporters: Trump Derangement Syndrome, and apparently, it’s an epidemic among those who write unflatteringly of the commander in chief.
Donald Trump: US Treasury should get cut of TikTok deal
Former FBI director James Comey once said that dealing with Donald Trump gave him "flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob".
The US president has certainly made TikTok an offer it can't refuse.
If the video app doesn't break away from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and sell its US operation to Microsoft, Mr Trump will simply ban it - putting TikTok's access to its 80 million active American users in jeopardy.
Trump Says U.S. Should Get Slice of TikTok Sale Price
WASHINGTON—President Trump said he was ready to approve a purchase of the U.S. operations of the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, but only if the government receives “a lot of money” in exchange—an assertion of presidential power that appeared to lack precedent.
Trump's interview debacle sends a warning for the fall campaign
There was no "Trump derangement syndrome": We were right about him all along
Those of us who warned America that fascism was coming were called hysterical alarmists. How does that feel now?
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Trump withholds praise for John Lewis, notes he 'didn't come to my inauguration'
President Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with "Axios on HBO" that aired Monday night, refused to praise late civil rights icon and Rep. John Lewis, citing Lewis' decision not to attend his inauguration and State of the Union speeches.
"I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know. I don't know John Lewis," Trump said. "He chose not to come to my inauguration. He chose -- I don't -- I never met John Lewis actually, I don't believe."
Swan then asked Trump whether he thinks Lewis and his story are "impressive."
"I can't say one way or the other," Trump said. "I find a lot of people impressive. I find many people not impressive."
Swan prodded Trump to answer the question, to which the president responded, "[h]e didn't come to my inauguration. He didn't come to my State of the Union speeches. And that's OK. That's his right, and, again, nobody has done more for Black Americans than I have."