Republicans in Minnesota Introduce Bill Classifying ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as a Mental Illness
“Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior.”
Republicans in Minnesota of all places are moving to classify ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as a mental illness. I hope they’re not just joking about this because TDS absolutely is a real mental disorder, as anyone related to a sufferer can attest.
TDS has turned millions of seemingly average liberals into pro-war, pro-deep state, pro-Cheney family wingnuts who oppose anyone seen as insufficiently anti-Trump.
If the late psychiatrist and political analyst Charles Krauthammer, the man who coined the term ‘Bush Derangement Syndrome’ were still with us, I am certain he would approve.
BREAKING: Minnesota Senate Republicans just introduced a bill to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness.
Here's an image of Tim Walz exhibiting a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly referred to as "TDS eyes." pic.twitter.com/00kE6WFGh7
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 15, 2025
I am a co-author in the house.
TDS is real. https://t.co/ZAP8q7nStN— Ben Davis (@BenDavis_MN) March 15, 2025
JUST IN: Minnesota Senate Republicans just introduced a bill to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness.
Absolutely incredible.
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— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) March 15, 2025
Rusty Weiss writes at RedState:
Minnesota Republicans Introduce Bill Classifying ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ a Mental Illness
Senate Republicans in Minnesota are set to introduce a bill that classifies “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” commonly referred to as TDS, as a mental illness.
For those not privy to the latest medical journals, TDS is a condition where otherwise normal humans turn into frothing, wild-eyed lunatics at the mere mention of a particular golden-haired president.
Symptoms include spontaneous outbursts of “Orange Man Bad!”, an uncontrollable urge to blame him for everything (including, but not limited to, their burnt toast), and a knack for seeing Hitler in everything he says.
The bill, already logged into the legislature website, will be formally introduced and read in the chamber on Monday. It has five Republican authors added to it.
Normally, I despise these gimmick bills, but I’m giving this one a pass on account of it’s freaking funny.
Weiss cites the clinical description:
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” means the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump. Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior.
The smartest thing the Democratic party could do right now is identify all of the people who suffer from the worst cases of TDS and promptly stop listening to them. The only way they’re going to form a realistic message and strategy, and possibly find a new leading voice, would be to let go of the most insane voices under their tent.
Of course, they won’t do this, they don’t even seem capable, and that is part of the reason why they will continue to wander in the political wilderness.
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As much as I laughed at the article, it must not pass. They’ll provide public funds for treatment.
It’s MN aka the blue lagoon, the place that elects Illhan Omar the brother loving fraudster. Of course, it will never pass.
It’s a good prank/troll but if passed the d/prog may try to fund it…. but then they could also be committed and locked away from the rest of us until their symptomatic behaviours end. So all the Covid Karens, the folks constantly shrieking about ‘ists, isms and phobes’ and so on would be kept in safe place until they were ‘better’.
Offer them free assisted suicide, that might shock them out of TDS.
And the prescription will involve hot fudge sauce.
And the Dems are still digging.
If you are liberal, you are mentally on the edge anyway. So TDS is easily acquired. Notably, the stronger the TDS on a scale of 1 (Obama sticker still on Prius) to 10 (burning down your city dressed in drag), the better thought of you are among others so infected.
Slight quibble on 10 ‘burning down your city dressed in drag’. Add ‘…with a free Palestine sticker on the BLM sign and a Ukrainian flag in the off hand’.
If they truly want to help, please classify ‘transgenderism’ as a mental illness.
It is very contagious in certain circles, and is keen to morph when a new strong, conservative subject appears. Originally Bush, then Trump; next will be Vance.
Can we shorten it to Vance Derangement and just say they all have VD?
That reminds me of the short name UCLA students have for a restaurant in Westwood Village. The village delicatessen has been known as the VD for so long that the bus boys have just VD embroidered on their shirt pockets.
The term “VD” went out of fashion about 50 years ago. Now it’s “STD”. Just knowing what “VD” means is enough to date us.
Those with TDS are hard pressed to say exactly what Trump has done. They can more easily define a woman.
In 2016, when I first heard of “TDS”, I assumed it referred to his supporters. I was half right. There are two distinct types of TDS.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is indeed a mental illness and several posters on this website are afflicted with it.
Both things are true. Yes, they’re joking (whether they claim to be or not), but also yes, TDS is real.
They’re joking because they know this can’t pass. Dems control the senate, and Walz is still the governor. Even in the house, where the Reps have a very temporary majority of one, Dems still have the power to block anything they don’t like, thanks to a partisan supreme court that ignored the text of the constitution and imposed a quorum of 68, rather than a majority of members, which would be 67.
Also, even if the bill could pass it shouldn’t, because legislatures have no business defining illnesses.
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