Get a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome
I often compare a friend or relative suffering from (TDS) Trump Derangement Syndrome to Skip Bayless — the famed sports columnist, who scored an average of 1.4 points per game on his high school basketball team. Bayless — who has no professional basketball experience — still has the nerve to call the man who scored 38,652 points in the NBA, Lebron James, a “washed-up ex-jock” who needs to retire.
The TDS sufferers are like armchair quarterbacks who have never done a pushup or sit up, but criticize the athlete who plays against the stiffest competition in the world.
I get not liking Donald Trump, but you have to respect someone who dealt with governors, mayors, Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. Every prosecutor wants to jail him, and every institution wants to destroy him. The man has dealt with everything from despotic leaders, such as Kim Jong Un from North Korea and Xi Jinping from China, and has staved off nuclear armageddon with Iran. He has also battled with the likes of Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates.
While people with TDS call Trump supporters “deplorable,” many of his detractors have no original criticism. They love to talk about how Trump meddled in the elections. But how exactly did Trump meddle in the elections?
Many people in Washington, D.C. are infected with TDS. Although comical, it is rather pathetic that his most prominent critics never hired, managed or did a payroll. Yet, they are somehow experts on Trump’s finances. Donald Trump was a man who made billions, lost billions, hired people and lifted people out of poverty to middle-class incomes.
Washington, D.C. is the eyewall of TDS. The worst are the gun control advocates who seem not to understand why we can and should carry weapons. They love blathering on about why assault weapons should be banned. I try following their insanity. It’s hard to untangle their arguments. The same people who want to defund police want to take guns away from American citizens. This means the only people allowed to have guns will be the government, police and military. It’s basic math: fewer guns mean more power for the government. Under this arrangement, they would have more control over your liberties. Why do people want to argue for the government to have more power over you?
The same people who lecture us on climate also swear that Donald Trump is a misogynist bigot. But many Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and poor whites see the indictments on Trump as similar to when our FBI spied on Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and planted lies about Fred Hampton, leading to the 21-year-old man’s assassination. Yet, history never told how the CIA paved the way for crack to infiltrate Black neighborhoods, which the Black community never recovered from, according to reporting first done by investigative journalist Gary Webb.
This is why I’d rather not get into an argument with those suffering from TDS. They’re like babies with rattle tantrums but no solutions. I get if you hate Trump, but offer something besides calling him names.
As with Skip Bayless, can you argue with TDS sufferers?
I learned the hard way that the best way to deal with TDS sufferers is to ignore them. Instead of getting mad, leave them and find a happy home.
Did tds get cured yet? Maga Are you tired of winning yet?
हाम्रो दिमाग कम्प्युटरजस्तै सूचनालाई प्रशोधन गर्ने प्रणाली हो, तर यसको जटिलता केवल कोड र गणनाभन्दा धेरै पर छ।
आँखाले देख्ने र पढ्ने कुरा एउटै हुन सक्छ, तर त्यसको अर्थ, सार र निष्कर्ष निकाल्ने प्रक्रिया भने हरेक व्यक्तिको अनुभव, ज्ञान र सोचअनुसार फरक हुन्छ।
हाम्रा दिमाग पनि आफ्नै प्रकारका “कोडिङ” बाट बनेका हुन्छन्। सामान्य आवश्यकतामा—जस्तै भोक, तिर्खा वा पीडा—बुझाइ मिल्न सक्छ, तर विचार र अनुभूतिको संसारमा विविधता स्वाभाविक हुन्छ।
त्यसैले “मलाई उपयोगी भयो, तिमीलाई पनि हुन्छ” वा “मलाई राम्रो लाग्यो, तिमीलाई पनि राम्रो लाग्नुपर्छ” भन्ने सोच सधैँ सही हुँदैन।
स्वतन्त्र सोच र विवेक नै मानिसको वास्तविक पहिचान होईन र ?
Trump has been a great wartime president.
“Look what we’ve done here. I almost cried,” Graham says in one video clip, practically giddy.
“I talked to [Donald] Trump this morning, he’s jacked, he said, ‘Best thing I have ever done.’ He loves blowing stuff up,” the conservative lawmaker said at the time. “I mean, how long have we been pushing this?
“There were a lot of people inside that didn’t want to do it, so I had my challenges,” he added.
Graham had remarked how “cool this was.”
In another clip in which he expresses his joy with the interventionist strategy, Graham compared Trump to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Winston Churchill, likening the burgeoning Middle East conflict to World War II.
“President Trump, when he gets into the zone, he listens, he asks good questions, no tweeting. He … hasn’t tweeted much at all,” Graham said. “No drama, he’s been a great wartime president.
“I mean, they’re the right two guys to confront this evil,” Graham added.
In other recently released footage, Graham was captured phoning Netanyahu—whom he referred to as his “friend”—about a joint plan to lobby Trump to get involved in the conflict.
“We’re concentrating right now on Iran,” Netanyahu told Graham over speakerphone on a March 4 call. “If we tell Hezbollah that we’re going all the way, we threaten them, but if we actually do it, then they have no reason not to go all the way against us. And right now that’s not our interest.”
“That’s actually good counsel,” Graham responded from his Senate office, decorated with Trump merchandise. “I’ll put it out there as an idea; we can always go back to it.”
Trump appeared to develop what many critics call "Obama Derangement Syndrome," turning Barack Obama into a constant target long after he left office. For many observers, this obsession seemed to reflect more than political disagreement—it exposed deeper anxieties about race, identity, and the changing face of America. Some of Trump's supporters embraced rhetoric rooted in grievance, fear, and ideas of racial superiority. History has repeatedly shown where such thinking can lead, and the ideology of Adolf Hitler remains one of humanity's darkest warnings about the consequences of racial supremacy. Racism does not simply disappear with time; it survives when it is ignored, excused, or turned into political strategy. It takes honesty, education, and courage to confront these beliefs, and that work is far from over.
Sadly, I see a similar pattern among some Nepalese, both voters and non-voters. Some seem to have developed their own version of "Obama Derangement Syndrome," refusing to acknowledge Obama's historic achievements and enduring legacy while remaining fixated on the fact that he is a Black man. When prejudice prevents people from judging leaders by their actions and accomplishments, it says far more about the observer's biases than about the leader they are criticizing.
More than two decades in the United States, yet his mindset hasn't changed one bit. Living in a country that values the rule of law, respect for public property, and consideration for neighbors apparently taught him nothing. Back home, he is widening a preassigned road by taking extra land from a neighbor, then treating that public access as his private property by erecting a gate and locking it. You can change your address, your passport or the country where you earn a living, but none of that changes your character. A person's values & ethics travel with them. If greed, entitlement, and disregard for others remain untouched, then twenty years abroad become nothing more than a change of scenery. Progress is measured not by where we live, but by how we treat the people who live beside us.
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