Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real. He and His Supporters Have It.

Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This is the go-to insult hurled by his supporters; a catch-all bit of gaslighting designed to malign the emotional state and mental faculties of decent, rational human beings who push back against his legislative assaults on marginalized people, who are sickened by his boundless cruelty, who bear witness to his complete lack of accountability under the law, who rightly criticize his insistence on making every tragic situation more so.

Claiming someone has TDS has become a MAGA standby; a quick and convenient slur allowing them to sidestep factual information, mask their refusal to have meaningful debate, and avoid culpability in defending a man whose very social media feed testifies that he is not at all well.

In the latest example, in a vile, grotesque, completely inhumane rambling social media diatribe about the shocking murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, Trump himself had the stratospheric gall to accuse the slain actor, director, and activist of having Trump Derangement Syndrome:

If there’s any derangement here, it securely resides in the mind of the author of the post, and that’s the point.

The evidence daily provided by Donald Trump shows, at best, a complete and utter narcissism, a gravely fractured and fragile ego, and an untethered mind not bound by any sense of decency or consequence.

At worst, it all paints a disturbing self-portrait of a seriously unstable human being who should be getting proper mental healthcare, not given the nuclear codes and carte blanche by opportunistic enablers and adoring sycophants.

The sick irony is that people who regularly share and defend his steady stream of scrambled, sickening word salads still have the stratospheric gall to accuse others of being mentally unwell for opposing him.

The truth is, if Trump’s words were coming from their child’s school principal, MAGAs would demand his resignation.
If he were on staff at their church, they’d have him removed in seconds.
If he were someone in their employ, he’d be swiftly terminated.
If he were any adult other than the Republican President they’ve sworn their faithfulness to, they’d be deeply concerned about having proximity to them or their children.

Frankly, it’s a fairly depressing endeavor for people not indoctrinated into the red hat death cult to see where we’ve arrived as a nation, that a person like this is in our highest office.

Derangement is the word, alright.

I think it’s deranged to passionately support a morally bankrupt convicted felon and court-adjudicated rapist; to excuse his every crime, to justify any reprehensible act, to have one’s identity so intertwined with his that a critique of him feels like a personal attack.

I think it’s deranged for a 79-year-old man to spend his every waking hour airing incessant social media grievances against the entire world, spewing abject hatred against immigrants, Muslims, Transgender people, media members, foreign allies, and liberals. Far worse that a sitting president does these things, and that everyone around him pretends it isn’t a danger bordering on a national emergency.

I think it’s deranged that there are people in our country who will defend Trump’s putrid filth toward Rob Reiner because they have long since tethered themselves to him and abandoned humanity in the process.

This isn’t even taking into consideration his lie-riddled press conferences, his barely-intelligible television interviews, his needlessly predatory initiatives, or his continual creation of phony national emergencies designed to wag the dog into full-blown crisis. Such things all testify to his unfitness to lead.

But let’s put all that aside and focus on a manageable sample size for the MAGA attention span. I invite my Trump-supporting friends to take a brief stroll through his social media feed, this post about Rob Reiner alone.

If you can view it and not be appalled by his conduct, embarrassed by his neediness, concerned for his health, and worried about our nation under his care, I’m going to suggest that you’re enabling his neurosis and indulging his narcissism to the point of endangering all of us.

If Trump Derangement Syndrome is a thing at all, it’s something Donald Trump is hopelessly afflicted with.

If you’re still defending him, you’re not helping him or America or humanity—and you aren’t well yourself.