Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real. He and His Supporters Have It.
Medium | 13.01.2026 20:02
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real. He and His Supporters Have It.
If Trump Derangement Syndrome is a thing at all, it’s something Donald Trump is hopelessly afflicted with.
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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:
