The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Fake Messiah]

Lek is suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome which is that he is refusing to see Trump for what he really is. A few months ago, if people had predicted that Trump would cut off intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, destroy U.S.A.I.D., free all the Jan. 6 convicts, put his lackey Kash Patel in charge of the F.B.I. and turn the US into a despised enemy of Canada, they’d have been accused of unhinged political hatred.

And yet, Lek is pretending like this is all good.

Some other patients who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome is Scott Bessent, now Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary, who, before the last election, assured The Financial Times that Trump had no interest in reducing international trade and that his threats to impose sweeping, 20 percent tariffs on foreign goods were simply a “maximalist” negotiating position to be watered down during trade talks. “My general view is that at the end of the day, he’s a free trader,” said Bessent.

Or when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Howard Lutnick, now Trump’s commerce secretary, whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could become secretary of health and human services, to which he said “Of course not,” treating the question as if it were absurd.

Or when Jeff Bezos said Trump had grown over the past eight years, and I quote “What I’ve seen so far is he is calmer than he was the first time — more confident, more settled.”