The database records use of the label, not the truth of the accusation.
2015-08-17
Esther Goldberg
Many Ruling Class Republicans seem to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- American Spectator
- Why labeled TDS
- Anti-Trump GOP elites reacting contemptuously to Trump and the Megyn Kelly dispute
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion; intra-right policing
2016-03-18
Urban Dictionary · CLWT
Defined TDS as “a mental dysfunction causing those detractors with hateful thoughts and feelings about Donald Trump to go unhinged.”
- Source type
- Dictionary entry
- Source
- Urban Dictionary
- Why labeled TDS
- Early popularization of pseudo-clinical framing
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Crowdsourced definition
2016-10-08
Robert De Niro
Viral video: “He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk, he’s a dog, he’s a pig… I’d like to punch him in the face.”
- Source type
- Video statement
- Source
- Campaign-season video · later press citations
- Why labeled TDS
- Celebrity physical-threat rhetoric as opposition theater
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity advocacy
2016-11-09
Rosie O’Donnell
Pre-election all-caps certainty he would never be president; sustained personal feud language across the cycle.
- Source type
- Social media
- Source
- Twitter archive · retrospective coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Personal vendetta elevated to predictive political certainty
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity social feed
2016-12-13
Bill Whalen · Forbes
Mapped TDS onto prior Clinton/Bush/Obama “derangement” lineages as a recurring political pathology.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- Forbes
- Why labeled TDS
- Institutional essay treating TDS as successor strain
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative analysis
2016-02-25
Joe Klein
Scarborough accused Klein of suffering from TDS after Klein said Trump was operating from his lizard brain.
- Source type
- Magazine column / broadcast reference
- Source
- Time
- Why labeled TDS
- Klein’s psychological critique of Trump was labeled deranged
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Mainstream news opinion
2016-03-26
Michael Davis
Defined TDS as an acute onset of paranoia in reaction to Trump’s candidacy and existence.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- Spectator Australia
- Why labeled TDS
- Critics and anti-Trump commentators said to overreact to Trump
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion
2016-08-14
Lawrence Meyers
Defined symptoms as hyperbolic disgust, ridicule, fear, ignorance, and baseless anxiety.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- Townhall
- Why labeled TDS
- Anti-Trump sentiment framed as projection and irrationality
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion
2017-01-20
Jessica Starr · inauguration
ITV News: visceral primal scream of “Noooooooo!” on Pennsylvania Avenue as Trump was sworn in; multi-million views.
- Source type
- Television / viral video
- Source
- ITV News · Washington Times retrospective
- Why labeled TDS
- Inauguration-day emotional collapse as emblematic outbreak image
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Street protest on camera
2017-01-21
Madonna · Women’s March
“I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House” — later called metaphor; live F-bombs; Secret Service attention.
- Source type
- Rally speech
- Source
- Women’s March on Washington · LA Times / Atlantic
- Why labeled TDS
- Celebrity violent fantasy language at mass protest
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Performance rhetoric; clarified next day
2017-03-12
Joe Scarborough · Morning Joe
Trump stump speeches likened to “a Mussolini rally”; warned of real-life death-threat consequences.
- Source type
- Television commentary
- Source
- MSNBC Morning Joe · NewsBusters 2018 review
- Why labeled TDS
- Cable host dictator analogy in first year
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Partisan cable
2017-05-30
Kathy Griffin
Photo with bloodied replica of Trump’s severed head; CNN NYE deal terminated; Secret Service inquiry; tearful apology.
- Source type
- Photo / publicity stunt
- Source
- TMZ · Reuters · LA Times · CNN
- Why labeled TDS
- Graphic violence imagery aimed at sitting president
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Comedy provocation; bipartisan condemnation
2017-01-06
Bernie Goldberg
Fox video titled Defining Trump Derangement Syndrome.
- Source type
- Television clip
- Source
- Fox News
- Why labeled TDS
- Segment presented the phrase as the frame for anti-Trump reaction
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative cable news
2017-01-08
Chauncey DeVega
Warned TDS would become a cudgel used to silence critics.
- Source type
- Opinion / critique
- Source
- Salon
- Why labeled TDS
- Critique of the term’s political function
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Progressive critique
2017-02-13
Wesley Pruden
TDS had savaged the chattering class.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- Washington Times
- Why labeled TDS
- Commentariat said to be overreacting to Trump’s early presidency
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion
2017-02-18
Bret Stephens
Accused of TDS for criticizing Trump’s Russia rhetoric.
- Source type
- Lecture text / essay
- Source
- Time
- Why labeled TDS
- Used to dismiss conservative critics of Trump too
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Conservative critic of Trump
2017-04-13
Fareed Zakaria
Defined TDS as hatred so intense that it impairs judgment.
- Source type
- Opinion column
- Source
- FareedZakaria.com / WPWG
- Why labeled TDS
- Overreaction to Trump’s Syria strike
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Mainstream liberal-internationalist critique
2017-06-09
Charles Krauthammer
If Trump cannot distinguish crazy, TDS will only grow.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- National Review
- Why labeled TDS
- Describes escalating reaction to Trump’s conduct
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative establishment
2017-10-23
Wesley Pruden
Trump Derangement Syndrome only gets Democrats so far.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- Washington Times
- Why labeled TDS
- Democratic opposition framed as standing pathology
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion
2017-11-01
Walter E. Williams
How Liberals Can Recover From Trump Derangement Syndrome.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- Newsweek
- Why labeled TDS
- Impeachment calls and apocalyptic rhetoric treated as TDS
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative columnist
2017-12-04
Jay Cost
Used TDS in an imperial presidency argument.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- National Review
- Why labeled TDS
- Anti-Trump passions said to distort institutional judgment
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative magazine
2018-07-16
Helsinki summit media cycle
After Trump–Putin press conference, treason talk and institutional shock; Guardian: “the week America went mad.”
- Source type
- Media cluster
- Source
- National press · Guardian / cable
- Why labeled TDS
- Summit diplomacy read as pathology or betrayal
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Aggregate media reaction
2018-07-19
Whoopi Goldberg vs Jeanine Pirro
The View: Pirro accused Goldberg of TDS; on-air shouting match over immigration and Trump rhetoric.
- Source type
- Daytime television
- Source
- ABC The View
- Why labeled TDS
- On-air diagnosis duel between hosts
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Daytime panel conflict
2018-07-20
Donald J. Trump · Helsinki fallout
“Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin… It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!”
- Source type
- Presidential tweet
- Source
- Twitter · CNN Politics
- Why labeled TDS
- Direct presidential branding of summit critics as TDS
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Primary social statement
2018-12-26
NewsBusters year-in-review
Compiled 2018 journalist exhibits: Mussolini rallies, treason charges, white-supremacist framing.
- Source type
- Media criticism roundup
- Source
- NewsBusters
- Why labeled TDS
- Conservative taxonomy of the year’s cable excesses
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Advocacy journalism
2018-05-02
Elizabeth Bruenig
Nation’s condition described as better called TDS.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- Washington Post
- Why labeled TDS
- Broader argument that dysfunction exceeds Trump himself
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Left/critical commentary
2018-05-04
Jonathan S. Tobin
Trump Isn’t Father Coughlin.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- National Review
- Why labeled TDS
- Democratic and media comparisons portrayed as overreach
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion
2018-05-07
Michael Barone
Democrats’ Dangerous Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- National Review / syndicated
- Why labeled TDS
- Democratic vitriol framed as politically self-defeating
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion
2018-05-15
Marc Thiessen
TDS was so debilitating Democrats could not acknowledge Trump’s achievements.
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- AEI / Washington Post
- Why labeled TDS
- Democratic responses treated as hysterical
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Conservative columnist
2018-07-16
Sen. Rand Paul
There was Trump derangement syndrome on the left over Russia criticism.
- Source type
- Interview
- Source
- PBS NewsHour
- Why labeled TDS
- Russia posture and investigation focus labeled irrational
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Republican elected official
2018-07-18
Donald J. Trump
They would rather go to war… It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!
- Source type
- Presidential tweet
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Critics of Helsinki summit labeled TDS sufferers
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential communication
2018-07-18
Anne Flaherty
AP reported Trump and supporters had a new buzz phrase to diagnose critics.
- Source type
- Straight news article
- Source
- AP
- Why labeled TDS
- Captures mainstream political-news coverage
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Straight news
2018-07-26
Donald J. Trump
Urged people with TDS to read Dershowitz’s anti-impeachment book.
- Source type
- Presidential tweet
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Russia probe and impeachment supporters treated as TDS sufferers
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential communication
2018-08-01
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
TDS is becoming a major epidemic among Democrats.
- Source type
- Official social media
- Source
- Secondary archive/reporting
- Why labeled TDS
- Democrats’ negative response to economy framed as pathological
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Official White House spokesperson
2019-07-24
Conrad Black · National Review
Essay on TDS and presidential egocentricity — “otherwise reasonable people reacting irrationally.”
- Source type
- Opinion article
- Source
- National Review
- Why labeled TDS
- Elite opinion diagnosing peer irrationality
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative magazine
2019-09-24
First impeachment inquiry launch
Ukraine call-transcript cycle; opposition and defense framed each other as unhinged or lawless.
- Source type
- Political / media event
- Source
- House inquiry coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Constitutional crisis language saturating cable and Capitol
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Institutional conflict
2019-12-18
House impeachment vote
Articles of impeachment adopted; parallel frames of existential threat versus coup theater.
- Source type
- Congressional action / media
- Source
- House floor · national press
- Why labeled TDS
- Peak first-term institutional confrontation
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official legislative act + coverage
2019-01-04
John D. Moore
Asked whether TDS is a real mental condition and answered skeptically.
- Source type
- Mental-health commentary
- Source
- Psychology Today
- Why labeled TDS
- Explicit clinical scrutiny of the phrase
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Mental-health commentary
2019-12-17
Donald J. Trump
Told Nancy Pelosi she had a full-fledged case of TDS.
- Source type
- Official letter
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Impeachment actions framed as inability to accept 2016 result
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential document
2020-05-09
Los Angeles Times letters cycle
Readers debate “Who really has Trump Derangement Syndrome?” after editorial framing of critics vs. supporters.
- Source type
- Opinion letters
- Source
- Los Angeles Times
- Why labeled TDS
- Public argument over which side owns the pathology label
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Letters page
2020-08-04
Salon · “There was no TDS”
Essay arguing early authoritarian warnings were correct — rejection of the derangement label itself.
- Source type
- Opinion essay
- Source
- Salon
- Why labeled TDS
- Meta-argument that TDS was a silencing device
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Progressive commentary
2020-10-30
Sarah Cooper / Trump-comedy boom
Lip-sync comedy peak (Netflix special, DNC appearance) as cultural coping industry around daily presidential material.
- Source type
- Entertainment / culture
- Source
- LA Times comedy feature
- Why labeled TDS
- Mass entertainment economy organized around the president
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Culture reporting
2020-12-16
John Avlon · CNN
“Trump derangement syndrome has taken on a new twist” — post-election denial reassigned the affliction to Trump and allies.
- Source type
- Television commentary
- Source
- CNN New Day
- Why labeled TDS
- Cable host flipping TDS onto election-result rejection
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Cable analysis
2020-02-28
Donald J. Trump / Trish Regan
CNN was infected with TDS.
- Source type
- Presidential tweet
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- COVID coverage cast as partisan panic
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential amplification
2020-11-27
Rep. Jason Smith
Vaccine skepticism was textbook TDS.
- Source type
- Official House newsletter
- Source
- House member site
- Why labeled TDS
- Distrust of Trump-era vaccine timeline framed as irrational
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Republican House messaging
2021-01-06
Capitol riot aftermath framing
Competing maximal frames — insurrection vs. setup — locking mutual pathology narratives for years.
- Source type
- Political / media event
- Source
- National coverage Jan 2021 onward
- Why labeled TDS
- Event that hardened identity-level narratives
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Historical inflection
2021-01-19
New York Times insult archive
Interactive complete list of Trump Twitter insults 2015–2021 published as the presidency ended.
- Source type
- Data journalism
- Source
- New York Times Upshot
- Why labeled TDS
- Institutional memorialization of verbal conflict as dataset
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Legacy-media archive
2021-09-01
MDPI social-science paper
“Seeking Evidence of The MAGA Cult and Trump Derangement Syndrome” — experimental test of asymmetric bias claims.
- Source type
- Peer-reviewed article
- Source
- MDPI Societies journal
- Why labeled TDS
- Academic measurement of whether TDS-style bias is symmetric
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Scholarly study
2021-09-18
Andrew S. Franks and Farhang Hesami
Results did not support broad existence of so-called TDS on the left.
- Source type
- Peer-reviewed article
- Source
- Societies / DOI
- Why labeled TDS
- Academic test of alleged syndrome
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Academic research
2023-01-18
David Corn · Mother Jones
“Trump Derangement Syndrome…on the Right” — claimed advanced TDS now afflicted Trump champions in denial.
- Source type
- Opinion newsletter
- Source
- Mother Jones
- Why labeled TDS
- Mirror diagnosis aimed at pro-Trump right
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Progressive commentary
2023-04-04
NY hush-money indictment reactions
First criminal indictment of a former president; parallel frames of accountability vs. lawfare.
- Source type
- Legal / media event
- Source
- Manhattan DA · national press
- Why labeled TDS
- Legal process saturating political identity
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official charging + coverage
2023-08-01
Federal election-case indictment cycle
Special counsel charges; democracy-ending vs. deep-state narratives harden further.
- Source type
- Legal / media event
- Source
- DOJ / court filings · national press
- Why labeled TDS
- Federal criminal process as totalizing political story
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official charging + coverage
2023-11-11
“Vermin” Veterans Day speech reactions
Trump called political enemies “vermin”; press linked the language to fascist historical registers.
- Source type
- Campaign speech / media
- Source
- Claremont NH speech · Washington Monthly / NYT
- Why labeled TDS
- Historical analogy stack applied to campaign rhetoric
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Speech + interpretive coverage
2023-11-17
Cognitive-decline media wave
Pieces arguing Trump had “gone even crazier”; name and geography confusions treated as fitness crisis.
- Source type
- Opinion / analysis
- Source
- Washington Monthly and parallel outlets
- Why labeled TDS
- Fitness narrative competing with lawfare narrative
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Opinion analysis
2022-08-01
Washington Times · Doonesbury
Column treating Garry Trudeau’s ongoing Trump depiction as a chronic TDS case study mid-Biden term.
- Source type
- Opinion column
- Source
- Washington Times
- Why labeled TDS
- Comic-strip politics read as multi-year clinical exhibit
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Conservative opinion
2022-09-01
Biden “soul of the nation” speech cycle
Pre-midterm framing of MAGA as threat to democratic foundations; intensified existential language.
- Source type
- Presidential speech / media
- Source
- White House · national press
- Why labeled TDS
- Administration rhetoric treating opposition as systemic threat
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official speech + coverage
2022-11-08
Midterm expectations collapse
Media and activist emotional whiplash as the predicted Republican “red wave” underperformed.
- Source type
- Election / media
- Source
- National election coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Expectation collapse producing secondary narrative crises
- Credibility
- Medium
- Bias note
- Aggregate election reaction
2022-12-09
Andrew Sullivan
“He Is What He Always Was” — argued early TDS critics were not deranged; catalogued post-2020 escalations.
- Source type
- Opinion essay
- Source
- The Weekly Dish (Substack)
- Why labeled TDS
- Never-Trump conservative reassessing the derangement charge
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Independent commentary
2023-06-10
Donald J. Trump
Opponents had reached a level of TDS nobody thought possible.
- Source type
- Campaign speech
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Legal and political opposition framed as derangement
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Candidate speech
2024-05-02
Robert De Niro · MSNBC
Compared a second Trump presidency to Hitler and Mussolini: “He looks like a clown. Acts like a clown.”
- Source type
- Television interview
- Source
- MSNBC 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle · contemporaneous coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Dictator analogies recycled as campaign season diagnosis theater
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity advocacy on partisan cable
2024-05-14
Robert De Niro · The View
Profanity-laced tirade asserting Trump is “already” Hitler/Mussolini; network audio repeatedly muted.
- Source type
- Television appearance
- Source
- ABC The View · news coverage of on-air muting
- Why labeled TDS
- Live daytime escalation of dictator framing into unbroadcastable rage
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity guest; network daypart constraints
2024-05-28
Robert De Niro · Manhattan courthouse
Biden-Harris press event: Trump framed as buffoon-clown path to dictatorship; “no one is laughing now.”
- Source type
- Campaign / courthouse remarks
- Source
- Campaign event coverage · MSNBC/YouTube archives
- Why labeled TDS
- Legal-trial adjacency used as stage for historical analogy stack
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Campaign-aligned celebrity appearance
2024-07-15
Post–Butler rally media cycle
Assassination-attempt coverage split between solidarity framing and continued “threat to democracy” maximalism within days.
- Source type
- Social media / campaign rhetoric
- Source
- National press cycle July 2024
- Why labeled TDS
- Inability to pause pathology narrative after near-lethal event
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Aggregate media pattern, not single speaker
2024-09-15
Donald J. Trump · Taylor Swift
“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” — Truth Social reaction to Swift’s Harris endorsement after the debate.
- Source type
- Social media
- Source
- Truth Social · Rolling Stone / campaign coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Inverse case: celebrity politics as reciprocal obsession fuel
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Presidential candidate social post
2024-10-10
Trump campaign · Biden / Harris
Campaign messaging treated Nazi-propaganda comparisons from Biden/Harris orbit as textbook TDS.
- Source type
- Campaign rhetoric
- Source
- Campaign statements · USA Today retrospective on TDS usage
- Why labeled TDS
- Explicit campaign deployment of the label against opponents’ rhetoric
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Campaign communications
2024-11-06
Jimmy Kimmel
“Worst taco Tuesday of my whole life… a terrible night for women, for children…” — tears on air after Trump victory.
- Source type
- Late-night television
- Source
- Jimmy Kimmel Live · NY Post / Fox / Newsweek recaps
- Why labeled TDS
- Election-night emotional collapse framed as civic diagnosis for half the country
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Entertainment monologue as political eulogy
2024-11-06
Stephen Colbert
Opened post-election show in shared gloom; later argued many voters “don’t care” about democracy.
- Source type
- Late-night television
- Source
- The Late Show · contemporaneous coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Majority vote reinterpreted as democratic indifference
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Late-night partisan comedy
2024-11-06
Seth Meyers
Election night as Christmas Eve that left a “huge dump in your fireplace.”
- Source type
- Late-night television
- Source
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · NY Post recap
- Why labeled TDS
- Ritual holiday metaphor for political grief
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Host openly disclosed Harris vote
2024-11-06
Cardi B
“I hate yall bad.” Livestream threats toward Trump voters: “I’m gonna f*** you up… Burn your f***ing hats.”
- Source type
- Social media / livestream
- Source
- Instagram · Page Six / Toronto Sun / Variety
- Why labeled TDS
- Campaign surrogate energy converting to open hostility toward voters
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity activist; deleted/edited posts reported
2024-11-06
Christina Applegate
“My child is sobbing… Please unfollow me if you voted against female rights.” Threatened shutdown of long-running fan account.
- Source type
- Social media
- Source
- X / Instagram · Daily Wire / EW coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Personal and parental distress externalized as follower purge
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity social feed
2024-11-06
Billie Eilish
Instagram: “It’s a war on women,” over black background after results.
- Source type
- Social media
- Source
- Instagram · EW / Teen Vogue roundups
- Why labeled TDS
- Election outcome compressed into existential gender war claim
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity social feed
2024-11-06
John Cusack
Country choosing a “convicted felon rapist and Nazi” as “sign of deep nihilism.”
- Source type
- Social media
- Source
- X · Daily Wire celebrity-reaction roundup
- Why labeled TDS
- Maximal criminal/historical labels stacked in single post
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity social feed
2024-11-07
Joy Behar · The View
“It’s pathetic… A completely intelligent, qualified woman lost to a guy who was simulating sex with a microphone.”
- Source type
- Daytime television
- Source
- ABC The View · Fox News media-meltdown list
- Why labeled TDS
- Electoral outcome reduced to stagecraft mockery and misogyny thesis
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Daytime panel; explicit partisan framing
2024-11-06
Sabrina Carpenter
Mid-concert: “I feel so sorry about our country and to all the women in here…” after results.
- Source type
- Concert remarks
- Source
- Teen Vogue / entertainment press
- Why labeled TDS
- Tour stage converted to election grief address
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Performer political interlude
2024-10-21
Donald J. Trump
Perhaps it’s Trump derangement syndrome.
- Source type
- Campaign remarks
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Adverse coverage cast as pathology
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Candidate speech
2025-01-15
Donald J. Trump
Anti-Trump figures suffering from TDS.
- Source type
- Truth Social post
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Used as vetting/disloyalty label
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Archived social statement
2025-03-06
White House
Vindman has a terminal case of TDS — and it shows.
- Source type
- White House press release
- Source
- White House / APP
- Why labeled TDS
- Rep. Vindman criticism treated as pathological
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official executive-branch messaging
2025-03-25
Minnesota Senate Republicans
SF 2589 proposed adding TDS to statutory definition of mental illness.
- Source type
- State legislation
- Source
- Minnesota Revisor
- Why labeled TDS
- Hostility toward Trump framed as symptoms
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Republican state initiative
2025-03-26
Donald J. Trump
Judge Boasberg had Massive TDS.
- Source type
- Truth Social post
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Judicial rulings framed as anti-Trump pathology
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Archived social statement
2025-04-23
Donald J. Trump
Judge Howell had a bad case of TDS.
- Source type
- Truth Social post
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Unfavorable judicial decisions treated as psychiatric-style bias
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Archived social statement
2025-04-29
White House
Fake News suffering from terminal cases of TDS.
- Source type
- White House press release
- Source
- White House / APP
- Why labeled TDS
- Media criticism treated as pathology
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Executive-branch messaging
2025-05-01
Donald J. Trump
Democrats voting against his agenda was TDS.
- Source type
- Presidential remarks
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Routine legislative opposition pathologized
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential remarks
2025-05-15
Rep. Warren Davidson
Introduced the TDS Research Act of 2025.
- Source type
- Congressional bill press release
- Source
- Davidson House site
- Why labeled TDS
- Moved from insult into federal research agenda
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Republican House initiative
2025-06-05
Donald J. Trump
Criticism of diplomacy was sort of TDS.
- Source type
- Remarks with foreign leader
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Skepticism about China/trade diplomacy treated as reflexive bias
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential remarks
2025-06-27
Donald J. Trump
A judge probably has TDS.
- Source type
- Presidential remarks
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Court decisions against administration policy framed as pathology
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential remarks
2025-09-05
Donald J. Trump
Critics suffer major TDS, a disease of weak and stupid people.
- Source type
- Presidential remarks
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Political opposition equated with pseudo-disease
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official presidential remarks
2025-02-06
Hugh Hewitt · “Long TDS”
Three weeks into Trump 2.0, journalists “falling off the wagon” into reflexive Orange Man Bad — long TDS.
- Source type
- Opinion / media analysis
- Source
- Fox News opinion
- Why labeled TDS
- Named relapse of anti-Trump coverage norms after brief objectivity pledges
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Conservative media critique
2025-04-23
White House · Jimmy Kimmel
After Kimmel roasted Pete Hegseth on Signalgate: “talentless and suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
- Source type
- White House statement
- Source
- Independent / White House spokesperson
- Why labeled TDS
- Official deployment of TDS label against late-night host
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Executive-branch messaging
2025-06-08
Donald J. Trump · Elon Musk
Public diagnosis of Elon Musk with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” amid policy/relationship friction.
- Source type
- Social media / remarks
- Source
- WION / contemporaneous wire reports
- Why labeled TDS
- Label applied to former ally; expands TDS beyond traditional left critics
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Presidential social / remarks
2025-10-13
Frances Barber
British actress: “I had TDS and I’m now eating my words” after Gaza/Israel hostage developments linked to Trump diplomacy.
- Source type
- Social media admission
- Source
- X · Fox News media
- Why labeled TDS
- Self-diagnosis and public retraction after policy outcome
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Celebrity self-report
2025-10-08
Brandi Kruse · recovered TDS
“I’m living proof that you can recover from TDS… happier, healthier, more successful.” Trump: “Very attractive… glad you no longer have TDS.”
- Source type
- White House roundtable
- Source
- Yahoo / roundtable coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- Recovery narrative staged as political testimony
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Administration-friendly guest
2025-11-15
Donald J. Trump · Seth Meyers
Diagnosed Meyers with “incurable case” of TDS after Epstein-related monologue; called for NBC to fire him.
- Source type
- Truth Social post
- Source
- Mediaite · Truth Social
- Why labeled TDS
- Late-night criticism medicalized as incurable condition
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Presidential social post
2025-11-24
Jonathan Alpert · therapist backlash
NYC therapist described patient obsession with Trump; received death threats after Fox appearance on TDS as pathology.
- Source type
- Opinion / clinical claim
- Source
- Fox News / NY Post / WSJ op-ed cycle
- Why labeled TDS
- Clinical framing of political obsession triggered extreme hostile response
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Therapist self-report + media amplification
2025-12-15
Donald J. Trump · Rob Reiner
After Reiner’s death: suggested anger from “massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with… TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
- Source type
- Truth Social post
- Source
- Truth Social · NYT / USA Today / AP coverage
- Why labeled TDS
- TDS invoked in immediate aftermath of a non-political homicide; widely condemned even by allies
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Presidential social post; highly contested taste/ethics
2025-12-19
Whoopi Goldberg
“He always likes to say people have ‘Trump Derangement’… I feel like he’s got Obama and Biden Derangement.”
- Source type
- Daytime television
- Source
- ABC The View · The Hill
- Why labeled TDS
- Mirror-labeling: reverse diagnosis aimed at Trump’s predecessor fixation
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Daytime panel response to Reiner post cycle
2026-01-22
Donald J. Trump
NYT and others suffer from major TDS.
- Source type
- Truth Social post
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Unfavorable polling and coverage framed as corrupt pathology
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Archived social statement
2026-02-06
Donald J. Trump
Liz Cheney moved to Ireland to escape her TDS.
- Source type
- Truth Social post
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Anti-Trump Republican dissent pathologized
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Archived social statement
2026-03-11
Donald J. Trump
Democrats and Rep. Massie have TDS.
- Source type
- Presidential remarks
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Opposition to policy choices treated as incurable bias
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official remarks
2026-03-16
Donald J. Trump
Unnamed others have TDS.
- Source type
- Presidential remarks
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Catch-all explanation for motives and loyalties
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official remarks
2026-03-26
Donald J. Trump
Jerome Powell suffers from TDS.
- Source type
- Cabinet meeting remarks
- Source
- American Presidency Project
- Why labeled TDS
- Central-bank disagreement personalized as pathology
- Credibility
- High
- Bias note
- Official remarks
2026-04-23
APP approval analysis
Opposition President Derangement Syndrome.
- Source type
- Scholarly analysis
- Source
- American Presidency Project analysis
- Why labeled TDS
- Analytical reframing as affective polarization
- Credibility
- Medium-high
- Bias note
- Institutional analysis