Should Trump Derangement Syndrome be Considered a Mental Illness?

There are far stranger conditions that are recognized.

By Kelli Ballard | May 28, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

 

Should Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) be classified as a mental illness or psychological disorder? Some lawmakers believe so. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) recently introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome Research Act of 2025.

“TDS has divided families, the country, and led to nationwide violence – including two assassination attempts on President Trump,” Davidson told the Daily Mail in a statement. “The TDS Research act would require the NIH [National Institute of Health] to study this toxic state of mind, so we can understand the root cause and identify solutions.” He continued:

“Instead of funding ludicrous studies such as giving methamphetamine to cats or teaching monkeys to gamble for their drinking water, the NIH should use that funding to research issues that are relevant to the real world.”

Trump Derangement Syndrome and Political Polarization

The bill defines Trump Derangement Syndrome as “intense, irrational emotional or cognitive reactions to President Donald J. Trump, his actions, or his public presence.” Among other things, the NIH would be tasked with studying this state of mind as well as trying to track down Patient Zero. Any idea who that might be?

Trump isn’t the only president to have “derangement syndrome” attached to his more energetic opposition. In 2003, columnist Charles Krauthammer coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome”; in 2008, conservatives used “Obama Derangement Syndrome”; and in 2016, both parties sometimes used the term “Clinton Derangement Syndrome.”

Unfortunately, political polarization is rather common in America. Therapy Group of DC mentioned similar rhetoric against Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. “In every cycle, a president’s presence sparks vocal expressions—tweets, protest chants, heated dinner-table rants—and sometimes overt acts like unfriending relatives, boycotting businesses, or skipping holiday visits.” However, most might agree that Trump Derangement Syndrome is more prevalent and vicious than in previous presidencies. The chief executive probably had it right when he said that no matter what he did, even if he cured cancer, Democrats still would not support him.

No one knows for certain why people develop such an intense fervor against a commander-in-chief, so much so that they wear blinders and see only the negative in everything. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X in April that “Trump Derangement Syndrome is causing Democrats & the media to oppose President Trump’s commonsense efforts to cut billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse from our federal government.” She added: “They can’t stand that we finally have a President who actually delivers on his promises.”

During an interview on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) podcast, the senator asked Elon Musk why people hated him and Trump so much, and the billionaire responded: “Well, because we’re clearly over the target. 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 fraud 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.”

But is it all just about being upset with a political party or a particular president? A March 2023 commentary by sociologist Musa al-Gharbi found that conservatives tend to be happier and more well-adjusted than liberals, as Liberty Nation News National Correspondent John Klar wrote in his article, “Political Extremism and the Brain.”

“It’s possible that genetics and biology could explain much of the observed relationship between liberal identification and mental illness,” Klar quoted. He explained further, “Thus, the root causes of TDS might not be political at all, but rather a side effect of the core worldview and mental state that leads to a leftist alignment. A symptom, rather than the underlying illness itself, so to speak.”

The American Psychological Association identifies politics as a major stressor, with one study revealing that as many as 40% of Americans say politics is a major source of stress, and up to 20% admitted they lost sleep over political news.

Kick Back and Ditch the Matrix

We’ve seen the extremes to which those allegedly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome have gone: screaming at the sky, threatening to move to another country, vandalizing Teslas and threatening the vehicle owners, etc. While some may scoff at the idea of confirming TDS as a mental illness or psychological disorder, they might want to look at some of the other illnesses out there. For example:

• Stendhal Syndrome: When someone panics, dissociates, or hallucinates in the presence of a lot of art in one place, especially art considered emotionally powerful or overwhelmingly beautiful.
• Clinical Lycanthropy: When a person has the delusional belief that they are transforming into, or have already transformed into, an animal, most famously a werewolf.
• Folie a Deux: A psychiatric condition in which two people share the same delusional beliefs, usually because one person with a psychotic disorder “transmits” their delusions to someone close to them, usually between relatives or people closely associated.
• Paris Syndrome: People who suffer extreme disappointment after seeing Paris and it does not live up to their expectations. It’s a rare but real condition, and the afflicted suffer hallucinations, dizziness, anxiety, and more.

After looking at some of these other conditions, maybe Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn’t seem so far-fetched after all.

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Your Taxes At Work: ‘Eco-Anxiety’ Counseling For Federal Workers – OpEd

 By Paul Driessen April 26, 2023

Climate doomsayers and cancel culture work to justify counseling for bureaucrats’ climate grief

US Fish and Wildlife Service employees are struggling to cope with feelings of trauma and loss over the world’s changing climates and imperiled environments. Their work repeatedly confronts them with ecological changes, but even a sense of “anticipated loss” perhaps decades from now requires compassionate help. Or so the FWS and American Psychological Association tell us.

The FWS is thus offering paid leave to employees who attend “eco-anxiety” and “climate grief” training. When the House Natural Resources Committee called the sessions a colossal waste of money, the agency downplayed their cost and scope. But naturally the “woke” programs don’t end there.

FWS Director Martha Williams is also pushing diversity-equity-inclusion-LBGTQ programs as the agency’s “number one priority” (or perhaps number two, after climate change). Employees can take as much paid time off as needed for DEI and “gay pride” programs and eco-anguish counseling.

There’s no word about programs to help employees deal with widespread habitat and wildlife destruction that will result from millions of wind turbines, billions of solar panels and tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines, due to “net zero” policies implemented in the name of averting the “climate crisis.” Apparently no programs offer paid leave to participate in “conservative pride” campaigns or study Earth’s historic ice ages, warm periods, little ice ages and decades-long droughts.

That’s hardly surprising. The FWS and Interior Department were getting eco-centric and anti-fossil-fuel when I worked there 35 years ago. Like American and Western society in general, their culture has simply gotten more noticeably and intolerantly devoted to extreme environmentalist agendas since then.

Movies, television and news stories, constant instruction in what to think, rather than how to think, an absence of religion and ethics in many schools and homes, and incessant themes of inequality, victimhood and global doom foster widespread tension, anxiety and depression. They leave too many children, teens and adults unable to cope with life and setbacks, less respectful of authority and human life, inured to violence, and aggressively intolerant of opinions that differ from their own ideologies and agendas.

Even before they were forced to endure Covid-induced lockdowns, nearly 20% of Americans were taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, some linked to precipitating acts of violence; a third of high school students experienced prolonged anxiety, depression and hopelessness; and almost one in five teenagers had contemplated suicide.

Social isolation, minimal physical and outdoor activity, video games and reading self-selected online media have amplified depression and “chronic incapacitating mental illness” in America and many Western countries. Also hardly surprising, the problems are increasingly blamed on climate change.

“Climate grief is real,” self-proclaimed experts insist, and it’s spreading rapidly among young people. “The future is frightening,” 77% of 10,000 young people ages 16-25 from the USA and other countries told “climate anxiety” and “climate depression” investigators. Many children have climate nightmares.

“The climate mental health crisis” already affects people who have “lost everything in worsening climate infernos,” claims a NASA scientist and climate activist who’s certain we face “the end of life on Earth as we know it.” He’s not alone in being convinced that every extreme weather event and ecological calamity today is due to or made worse by fossil fuel and agricultural emissions.

“I don’t want to be alive anymore,” wailed a four-year-old who’s clearly been indoctrinated already. “The animals are all going to die, and I don’t want to be here when all the animals are dead.”

Parents fantasize about killing their children, over fears of a “climate-ravaged future.” Parents, teens and even children increasingly consider suicide.

At least one psychologist has based his entire practice on addressing climate psychoses. The Climate Psychology Alliance provides an online directory of “climate-aware therapists,” and a “peer support network” offers grief therapy modeled on twelve-step drug addiction programs.

There’s only one real solution to this epidemic, other “experts” insist: Governments must “take action now” to “end the climate crisis,” to eliminate “the death knell of climate chaos” that threatens us. Otherwise the epidemic of anxiety, depression, pills, climate grief and suicide will steadily worsen.

This is nonsense, insanity. We don’t have a climate crisis. We have a climate fear-mongering crisis.

We don’t need to “fix” exaggerated and over-hyped climate problems. We need to end the junk science, the indoctrination dominating news stories and classroom discussions about energy and climate change, the censorship that prevents alternative, reality-based facts and voices from being heard, the massive government funding of one side of this crucial debate.

Claims of “unprecedented” temperatures and extreme weather, floods and droughts have no basis in real-world evidence. The “climate crisis” exists in greenhouse-gas-focused computer models, headlines and hype, not in reality.

There is no unprecedented upward trend in the frequency of violent US tornados, or US landfalling hurricanes, for example – though the 12-year absence of Category 3-5 hurricanes hitting the United States between Wilma (October 2005) and Harvey (August 2017) is an all-time record.

Unfortunately, viewpoints, evidence and experts challenging climate crisis claims are too often banished from school curricula, news and social media, and government policy discussions.

President Biden’s “national climate advisor” worked closely with Big Tech and news organizations, to suppress facts about climate change, fossil fuels, and the acreage, raw materials and mining required for wind, solar and battery power. Meta (Facebook), YouTube, pre-Musk Twitter and other companies routinely help to deplatform, demonetize and censor anyone contesting crisis-promoting claims.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “summaries for policy makers” often misrepresent scientific findings and advance frightening but unsupported scenarios about Earth’s future climate. The IPCC also ignores studies that demonstrate how increased atmospheric carbon dioxide improves plant growth and wildlife habitats, how climate has changed repeatedly throughout Earth’s history, and that eliminating fossil fuels would result in extensive ecological damage from wind, solar, battery and transmission line mining and installations.

China, India and other countries are rapidly expanding their oil, gas and coal use, to improve their economies and lift billions out of poverty. China dominates raw material and “green tech” supply chains, making the West increasingly reliant on China for energy, economy and national defense needs – via Chinese mines, processing plants and factories that operate under minimal standards for pollution control, habitat destruction, and slave and child labor. As a result:

• Nothing the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia do will have any effect on global fossil fuel use or greenhouse gas emissions.
• Western foreign and domestic policy options will be restricted by reliance on adversarial nations for pseudo-renewable energy materials and technologies.
• Prices for energy, goods and services will skyrocket, because every megawatt of wind and solar must be duplicated with backup batteries or generators.
• Politicians and bureaucrats – egged on by loud, often violent mobs – will increasingly dictate our energy consumption, living standards, home sizes, vacations, and what we can eat, drink, drive and buy.

These are the real existential threats to democracy, society, humanity and planet. Parents, voters, legislators and judges concerned about our future must take action now to stop this insanity.

Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. During a 25-year career that included staff tenures with the United States Senate, Department of the Interior and an energy trade association, he has spoken and written frequently on energy and environmental policy, global climate change, corporate social responsibility and other topics. He’s also written articles and professional papers on marine life associated with oil platforms off the coasts of California and Louisiana – and produced a video documentary on the subject.

Logically, Blue States/Cities Can NEVER Lift COVID Mandates

Posted on May 3, 2021 

There’s no way blue state and blue city governments can reverse mask mandates and other restrictions without admitting they were wrong, and that they lied, going back 14 months now. Cold and flu viruses will be with us forever — or until an outright cure is found. That wasn’t close to happening as of early 2020, and it still isn’t now. COVID death rates have simply replaced death rates for the flu. The vast majority of people who get COVID recover, just as the vast majority who got other viruses (H1N1, SARS, many other viruses too numerous to name) recovered. It’s nothing new. What changed in 2020 is that most of the world was shut down, and people were forced to wear masks; we had similar non- life-threatening viruses before, but never responded in this way..........To Read More....

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Commentary: War on Drugs: Crime, Violence, and Mental Illness

By Rich Kozlovich

On Feb 19, 2019Walter E. Williams posted this article, saying:

Ten states and Washington, D.C., have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Twenty-two other states, along with U.S. territories Puerto Rico and Guam, allow marijuana to be used for medical purposes. Let's examine some hidden issues about marijuana use........  Alex Berenson is a graduate of Yale University, with degrees in history and economics. He delivered a speech last month at Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., on the hidden dangers of marijuana use. He told his audience, "Almost everything that you think you know about the health effects of cannabis, almost everything that advocates and the media have told you for a generation, is wrong."

Even the author, whom I've been reading and enjoying for years, can't bring himself to come to the right conclusion: We're losing the war on drugs because we're not fighting a war on drugs.  

For the most part I’m a firm believer people have the right to screw up their lives. I’m also a firm believe it’s not my responsibility to fix them afterwards. If they make bad decisions let them live with it. Is that cold? Yes, but it’s based on reality.

These people screw up their lives and then cry and whine to the people who told them not to do the things that messed up their lives to help them. But invariably there's this spoken and unspoken caveat - "Don't you dare to tell me to stop what their doing".   Ask anyone who deals with drug rehab how many fail.

Being an exterminator for 37 years means I've been in other people's bailiwick every week for 37 years. I can see prominent businessmen, politicans or celebrities along with the dregs of society on any given day. In pest control you see it all, and if you’re not as obtuse as a rock, you begin to see patterns.

Years ago I had a restaurant account where I had become good friends with the chef for many years- at least I thought we were friends. Then he started getting nasty and unpleasant for no seeming reason. At some point I asked him why he was acting that way, and if I had done something to offended him please let me know, I would apologize. He got nastier and told me to just shut my mouth and just do my job and turned on his heel and walked away. The next week he was gone. The company paid to put him through rehab. 

Then I remembered a conversation we had some years before when I told him one of the things I liked best about him was he was always stable. He said it wasn't always that way. He'd had a drug problem in years gone by and he said his emotions bounced all over the place.

When he returned to work, he was the same old friend he was before and apologized for treating me as he did. However, it didn’t last. It turned out to be an invaluable experience. I learned two things.

First, the nasty and unpleasant personality he displayed I see a lot. I’ve seen people go from normal and friendly to mean and nasty. I couldn’t understand it, at least until this episode.

The second thing I learned was that druggies are repeaters. In most cases they just can’t be fixed. The third thing I learned was not to automatically you are the problem…..you aren’t…..it’s them, and you need to get those people out of your life as quickly as possible.

Make not mistake about this. The violence and mental instability is going to grow like a deadly fungus on society.  The problem is we're not really fighting a war on drugs,

If society decides to ignore reality and accept drug addiction as a new social norm then there will be consequences to those addicted and those they impact. These drugs destroy people, and if and when it becomes common place, it will destroy society.

That’s history, and that history is incontestable.

Observations From the Back Row, 4/1/11

By Rich Kozlovich

Quotes of the Week

By Stephen Mauzy

If one anthropomorphizes a rock, one is a nut job. If one anthropomorphizes billions of rocks, one is an environmentalist.

The environmentalist’s unnatural love affair with nature would be no more intrusive or offensive than the nut job’s love affair with a rock. The difference is that the environmentalist relentlessly coerces everyone into his indulgent fantasy — a grim world predicated on privation and scarcity. To the environmentalist’s mind, nature is like a female mammalian: she can give only so much before the teat runs dry.

The environmentalists continue to anthropomorphize nature, oblivious to the malevolence of the raw environment around him.
 

An Unnatural Love Affair
By Stephen Mauzy
Given the innumerable combinations of psychoses, fetishes, predilections, infatuations, and obsessions that can afflict earth's seven billion human inhabitants, it is within the realm of possibilities that at least one of the seven billion has anthropomorphized a rock and is interacting with it as if it were a sentient human being......

Wind turbines 'hit' important bat populations
Wind turbines are killing many thousands of bats contributing to a population decline that may be costing farmers millions of pounds, say researchers. Scientists found the blades of wind turbines were a major threat to bats particularly when they are migrating. Bats are useful to farmers because they eat large numbers of crop damaging insects, reducing the amount that has to be spent on pesticides. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers estimated that bats could be worth billions to agriculture around the world.

My Take - Consequences of another Stupid Greenie Idea!

Monarch's fate up in the air
LAKE ERIE - The struggling monarch butterfly faces potential disaster if the Ontario government's moratorium on offshore wind turbines is ever lifted and a proposed wind farm for the middle of Lake Erie -- right in the butterfly's migration path -- goes ahead, biologists warn.

My Take- Consequences of another Stupid Greenie Idea!

Windfarms threaten many bird species with extinction
Save the Eagles International (STEI) wishes to warn the international community about the threat that windfarms and their power lines represent for biodiversity. Unlike cars, buildings, and domestic cats, wind turbine blades and high tension lines often kill protected or endangered birds like eagles, cranes, storks, etc. Cumulatively and over the long term, 3.5 million wind turbines to be installed worldwide will cause the extinction of many bird species, some of them

My Take– Consequences of another Stupid Greenie Idea!

Painful Lessons for Wind Power
Wind energy took another blow—this time in Massachusetts. Wind One is the 400-foot-tall wind turbine owned by the town of Falmouth, on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod. The residents of Falmouth initially welcomed Wind One as a symbol of green energy and a handy way to keep local taxes down. Electricity generated by the turbine would be used to power the municipality’s infrastructure, thus shaving about $400,000 a year off its utility costs. Installed in the spring of 2010 at a cost of $5.1 million (with some $3 million derived through grants, government kickbacks, and credits), the huge turbine cranks out 1.65 megawatts of electricity during optimum conditions…….. residents began to complain—Wind One was as loud as an old Soviet helicopter…..“Headaches. Loss of sleep. And the ringing in my ears never goes away. I could look at it all day, and it does not bother me … but it’s way too close.” ….. Tired of the constant chopping sound, pained residents decided to lawyer up. This month a deal was struck with the town to disengage the turbine when winds exceed 23 miles an hour. This is problematic because giant windmills such as Wind One operate at optimum efficiency at about 30 miles an hour.

My Take– Consequence of another Stupid Greenie Idea!....Oh wait…..it’s the same stupid greenie idea! Wow....it’s even hard for me to believe that even a Stupid Greenie Idea could be this stupid. The greenies demanded we change to wind power…among other things that are turning out to be as equally stupid….in order to stop what we are already doing, which we have done for many decades with amazing success….we absolutely know what we do works….absolutely. The greenies complain and generate irrational, unscientific scares about these modern success stories claiming they are causing a terrible crisis of _____________(fill in the blank). You can fill in the blank as to what that “something” scare is because they will make it up as they go along anyway.

Discussing fracking in Ohio one Ohio legislator told the board of directors of Ohio Professional Applicators for Responsible Regulations (OPARR) at the recent board meeting, “they (the anti-drilling crowd) aren’t under oath and they lie!” It is nice to see that they are coming to that conclusion and are going to act accordingly.

Why are we listening to people who have no expertise in any of the fields in which they are protesting? The greenies really love technology that doesn’t exist. When it becomes potentially viable they protest their own demands. Why? Because they don’t have a clue what the outcome will be for these schemes and ideas. Let one businessman put their ideas into effect and they will claim he is destroying the planet…..and this is with their ideas!

Activist do no research, no engineering, make no practical applications of equipment or technology and, as a group, haven’t a clue as to how things really work or how things should work. They are really great at finding fault, but they are terrible at finding solutions. Especially since they are demanding solutions to non-problems!

Greenies lie….in point of fact… if you were to go back sixty years and create a list of all of their scares you will find that the hysteria was totally unfounded. Everything the greenies say is a lie. Not just lies of commission, which they are guilty of also, but mostly lies of omission.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Mar. 31st 2011
Hippie of the week is a skeptic’s best friend, flatulence is a warming topic and activists in California get the band back together to ensure the Golden State has no future. (Daily Bayonet)

My Take -This post covers the whole AGW fraud from all over the world. There are a lot of links to separate articles. I chose the wind mill stories, but there are a lot more….please set some time aside and follow the links in this article. This is a great post.


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