Trump derangement syndrome in short form – TDS is a term for criticism or negative reactions to United States President Donald Trump that are perceived to be irrational, and have little regard towards Trump’s actual policy positions, or actions undertaken by his administration. The term has mainly been used by Trump supporters to discredit criticism of his actions, as a way of reframing the discussion by suggesting that his opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world. Journalists have used the term to call for restraint when judging Trump’s statements and actions.
Origin of Trump derangement syndrome
The origin of the term is traced to political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, who originally coined the phrase Bush derangement syndrome in 2003 during the presidency of George W. Bush.
The first use of the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) may have been by Esther Goldberg in an August 2015 op-ed in The American Spectator; she applied the term to “Ruling Class Republicans” who are dismissive or contemptuous of Trump. Krauthammer, in an op-ed harshly criticizing Trump, commented that—in addition to general hysteria about Trump—the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was the “inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and … signs of psychic pathology” in his behavior.
Definition of Trump derangement syndrome
Fareed Zakaria defined the syndrome as “hatred of President Trump so intense that it impairs people’s judgment”. CNN’s editor-at-large Chris Cillizza called TDS “the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those who oppose him and his policies as nothing more than the blind hatred of those who preach tolerance and free speech”.
Pointing to previous allegations of Bush Derangement Syndrome and Obama Derangement Syndrome, Cillizza suggested, “Viewed more broadly, the rise of presidential derangement syndromes is a function of increased polarization—not to mention our national self-sorting—at work in the country today.”
Bret Stephens has described the term as something used by conservative groups whenever someone speaks out critically against Trump, regardless of political affiliation.
What DSM-5 say about Trump derangement syndrome
Mental illnesses are officially classified in a dense and dry book published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). This book contains 947 pages and lists hundreds of mental disorders.
Similarly, a review of scholarly databases such as MEDLINE and Google Scholar reveals no academic papers on this alleged syndrome. Officially at least, TDS is not a real, diagnosable, or treatable mental disorder.
That said, medical anthropologists and critical sociologists have convincingly argued that DSM-5 is a flawed document. Indeed, social scientists have long recognized that there are numerous “folk categories” of mental disorders that are considered real conditions by the general public, even though they are not recognized as such in the DSM. These include categories such as “burnout” or “nervous breakdown.”
As such, a lack of official recognition does not mean that TDS is not a real mental condition.
Usage of Trump derangement syndrome
The use of the term has been called part of a broader GOP strategy to discredit criticisms of Trump’s actions, as a way of “reframing” the discussion by suggesting his political opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world. However, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson of Annenberg Public Policy Center, the term could backfire on Trump supporters because people might interpret it to mean that Trump is the one who is “deranged”, rather than those who criticize him.
Trump supporters
Some Trump supporters have asserted that he plays a form of “multi-dimensional chess” on a mental level his critics cannot comprehend, which they say explains why critics are frustrated and confused by Trump’s words and actions. Fox News anchor Bret Baier and former House Speaker Paul Ryan have characterized Trump as a “troll” who makes controversial statements to see his adversaries’ “heads explode”.
Fareed Zakaria, who urged Americans to vote against Trump calling him a “cancer on American democracy”, argues that every Trump policy “cannot axiomatically be wrong, evil and dangerous”.
Examples of Trump derangement syndrome
Senator Rand Paul has cited the so-called syndrome several times. On July 16, 2018, the interview he said investigators should simply focus on election security and stop “accusing Trump of collusion with the Russians and all this craziness that’s not true”—accusations which he said were entirely motivated by “Trump derangement syndrome”.
Trump used the term in a tweet following the 2018 Russia–United States summit in Helsinki:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!
July 18, 2018
He also used it in a tweet about Alan Dershowitz’s book The Case Against Impeaching Trump:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump .@AlanDersh, a brilliant lawyer, who although a Liberal Democrat who probably didn’t vote for me, has discussed the Witch Hunt with great clarity and in a very positive way. He has written a new and very important book called “The Case Against Impeaching Trump”, which I would encourage all people with Trump Derangement Syndrome to read!
July 26, 2018
July 2018
In July 2018, Jeanine Pirro accused Whoopi Goldberg of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome during a guest appearance on The View to promote her newly published book. This occurred while Pirro was responding to a question about how the “deep state” really works.
In July 2018, Eric Zorn wrote in the Chicago Tribune that the syndrome afflicts Trump’s supporters more than his critics, as “what Team Trump is calling derangement is, in most cases, rational concern about his behavior and the direction he’s taking the country… The true Trump Derangement Syndrome lose on the land is the delusion suffered by those who still think he’s going to make this country a better place for average people.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also used the term in this tweet:
Sarah Sanders @PressSec Trump Derangement Syndrome is becoming a major epidemic among Democrats. Instead of freaking out about the booming Trump economy why not celebrate it?
August 1, 2018
September 2018
In September 2018, Fox News personality and Trump supporter, Sean Hannity criticized The Washington Post as having Trump Derangement Syndrome for stating in an editorial that Trump, because of his attitude toward climate change, is “complicit” in hurricanes battering the United States; Hannity said, “it is now a full-blown psychosis, it is a psychological level of unhingement I have never seen.”
November 2018
In November 2018, Michael Goodwin, writing in the New York Post, discussed a variant of Trump Derangement syndrome he called “Trump Imitation Syndrome”.
August 2019
In August 2019, Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former White House Communications Director, said in interviews with Vanity Fair and CNN that he had “Trump fatigue syndrome” instead of Trump derangement syndrome.
September 2019
In September 2019, Sean Hannity characterized as “Trump derangement syndrome” the continuing press coverage of Trump’s days-long insistence that he was correct to state on September 1 that Hurricane Dorian posed a danger to Alabama, asserting “pretty much every newsroom in America screwed this up and lied to you,” adding there were “a lot of psychotic jackasses in the media mob”.
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Conclusion
The wider public may be unaware that psychiatrists and social scientists spend considerable time and energy behind closed doors pondering over the existence and reality of mental conditions. This has led the APA to revise the DSM five times since 1952, considerably expanding the list of official mental disorders with each revision. As far as I am aware, few psychiatrists are currently arguing that DSM-6 should contain TDS as a mental disorder.
As such, further research is necessary to investigate the extreme reactions toward President Trump, in the same way, that researchers investigate other extreme social phenomena, such as Beatlemania or the like.
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Reference:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-men/201901/is-trump-derangement-syndrome-real-mental-condition?page=1
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