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Minnesota thinks Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real affliction [1]

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Date: 2025-04-26

A bill has been introduced into the Minnesota legislature to classify Trump Derangement Syndrome as a mental illness. Critics say it trivializes mental health in the state despite the bill's original intent.

"'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. This may be expressed by;

Verbal expressions of extreme hostility toward Donald J. Trump Overt acts of violence against anyone supporting President Donald J. Trump or anything that symbolizes President Donald J. Trump."

I would add:

Intelligent discourse that Trump is a threat to humanity. Opposition to having civil rights trampled upon by Trump. Statements that Trump is the worst president in history. Being upset at the language and swear words Trump uses on a regular basis. Finding his orange face disgusting. Making fun of Trump's extreme lack of intelligence. Talking about the size of his hands and corresponding body parts. Defining Trump's vocabulary as akin to a five year old. Drawing cartoons that put a light on his inability to do anything right and his threat to the Constitution. Noting how many lies he can make in a single sentence.

I'm sure there are a million more. Feel free to add in the comments.

Minnesota Senate Bill SF2589-0 is a completely serious attempt to make TDS a legitimate mental illness diagnosis. The authors, Minnesota Senators Lucero, Drazkowski, Wesenberg, Eichorn, and Gruenhagen, are rightly being held up to ridicule.

Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy called the bill "wasteful, frivolous and shameful" and "possibly the worst bill in Minnesota history."

"If it is meant as a joke, it is a waste of staff time and taxpayer resources that trivializes mental health issues. If the authors are serious, it is an affront to free speech and an expression of a dangerous level of loyalty to an authoritarian President. The authors should be ashamed, and the citizens we're hearing from are rightfully outraged," Murphy added.

The Senate has a one seat Democrat majority. The House is tied. The bill will go anywhere, and it hasn't since the middle of March.

Hours after introducing the bill, Senator Eichorn was arrested for solicitation of a minor for prostitution when he met up with a police officer posing as a 17 year old female. He had responded to an online advertisement for prostitution. Eichorn immediately resigned from his Senate seat, an hour before a vote was going to be taken to expel him. Always quality characters, Republicans.

Governor Tim Walz said, "You cannot prey on children and expect to get away with it."

Leon Hoffman, a psychiatrist, wrote in The Guardian that there should be a rule preventing American legislators from pathologising political opponents, as there is for psychiatrists. That did not stop 27 psychiatrists and mental health officials from writing a book about Trump's case.

Hoffman brings up "the Goldwater rule," created in 1973 by the American Psyhiatric Association. Goldwater, during the 1964 campaign, talked about using nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Many psychiatrists opined on his mental health. The rule states "that it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a proper authorization for such a statement."

The problem is that Trump truly is a mental case, and not to speak out is a dereliction of duty. There is simply too much evidence not to come to a conclusion. A psychiatrist makes his diagnosis by talking to a patient. Trump talks and answers every day. How much is necessary to come to a conclusion? I would agree that a psychiatrist should not take a single statement out of context and make an opinion on it. But what Trump has said, especially in his speeches, is fair game for analysis by journalists and medical professionals.

The Minnesota Trump Derangement Syndrome bill is actually a window into the mental health of Republicans. This unequivocating fealty to Trump is a syndrome in itself. Blind loyalty to a leader hasn't been seen like this since Hitler.

That is actually the real definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's about the Republicans sucking up to Trump when they had good minds in 2016, and even Ted Cruz called him a Hitler. There is no other explanation of this and MAGA other than as a mental illness.

They won't like it when we tell them.

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