Republican lawmakers have launched a bid to have ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ considered as a real mental illness.
A group of GOP senators in Minnesota filed a bill to classify the made-up condition an official disorder.
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is described in the proposal as having “verbal expressions of intense hostility” toward Donald Trump, along with “overt acts of aggression and violence” against anyone or anything that supports the president.
The symptoms of TDS, as outlined in the proposal, involve a general hysteria induced by Trump that makes it challenging to differentiate between genuine policy disagreements and potential mental issues in President Trump’s conduct.
For years, pro-Trump pundits and allies have paraded the term around as an insult towards critics who oppose the MAGA agenda and its leader.
Last month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that “Trump Derangement Syndrome is causing Democrats and the media to resist President Trump’s sensible attempts to eliminate billions of dollars in wasteful spending, fraud, and abuse from the federal government.”
‘They can’t stand that we finally have a President who actually delivers on his promises,’ she added when defending Trump’s initiatives to cut billions in government spending and thousands of federal jobs.
Republicans in the Minnesota Senate are launching a bid to officially classify the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) as a mental illness
The bill claims TDS symptoms produce ‘Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald Trump’s behavior’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) referenced it during an interview with ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk.
‘I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say today, after Donald Trump, the left hates you more than any person on earth,’ Cruz said on his podcast The Verdict.
‘Yes, I appear to be No. 2. I mean, judged by the various signs,’ Musk replied.
‘It’s derangement, it’s Trump derangement syndrome and Elon derangement syndrome,’ the senator insisted. ‘Why do they hate you so much?’
‘Well, because we’re clearly over the target,’ the billionaire replied. ‘If DOGE was ineffective, if we were not actually getting rid of a bunch of waste and fraud and a bunch of that fraud, I mean, the forward we’re seeing is overwhelmingly on the left.’
‘I mean, it’s not zero on the right, but these NGOs are almost all left-wing NGOs that are being funded.’
Minnesota’s SF2589 bill states: ‘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.’
While ‘derangement syndrome’ is a political phrase made popular in recent years to mock Trump’s enemies and critics, the term was coined in 2003 by the late political commentator Charles Krauthammer to describe critics of then-President George W. Bush.
Last month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt credited TDS as the reason Democrats claim they are against the president’s target on federal government’s waste, fraud and abuse
The Minnesota proposal includes the same phrasing Krauthammer used to describe ‘Bush derangement syndrome.’
He defined it as ‘the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency, nay, the very existence of George W. Bush.’
Republicans in the Minnesota Senate want to redefine the term TDS so it is recognized as a ‘mental illness’ by the American Psychiatric Association and Zero to Three, a nonprofit for baby and toddler development.
They are reading the proposed bill before the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Monday.
Minnesota voted 50.9 percent for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election compared to the 46.7 percent that voted for Trump.
