Are You or a Loved One Suffering From Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Kathy Copeland Padden
3 min readAug 24, 2018
There’s one (at least) in every crowd Photo by Stella’s Place

It’s the gravest public health crisis of our lifetime. Millions of people who were previously at least semi-kinda-normal are succumbing to the endemic, annoying plague we call Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

This disorder is characterized by an uncontrollable compulsion to talk about the Marmalade Moron all day, every day, including during sleep, sex, and surgery. Not even general anesthesia can thwart this increasingly prevalent form of self-induced dementia.

The signs may seem innocuous at first since many people not suffering from clinical TDS often exhibit the following symptoms as well.

  • slight nausea while watching Trump painfully stumble through complete sentences
  • mild tension headaches from Sarah Sander’s alternate-reality freak-show press conferences
  • minor abdominal cramping during any recent news broadcast on any mainstream media channel.

For most, these symptoms are manageable with minimal effort (breaking up with Maddow and not falling for partisan propaganda are very effective home remedies.) But a large segment of the population has fallen prey to chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome, which defies all…

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Kathy Copeland Padden

is a music fanatic, classic film aficionado, and history buff surfing the End Times wave like a boss. Come along!