A bill introduced in Minnesota seeks to revise state law to include “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a form of mental illness.
The bill, introduced by five Republican state senators, would add Trump Derangement Syndrome — or “TDS,” as President Trump and his supporters frequently refer to it — to the state’s definition of mental illness.
The bill defines “TDS” as “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,” it reads.
The legislation specifies that “TDS” can be expressed by “verbal expressions of intense hostility” toward Trump and by “overt acts of aggression and violence” against Trump supporters or against “anything that symbolizes President Donald J. Trump.”
The president has long invoked the fabricated diagnosis as a way to label his political opponents as mentally ill when they criticize him or express outrage in response to actions he has taken.