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On Thu, 22 May 2025 13:18:53 +0000,  Mitchell Holman says...  

> 
> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote in
> news:100n3dc$3er20$1@dont-email.me: 
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> >     <https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-m
> >     ideast-is-donald-trumps-safe-place> 
> > 
> >     After I noted the model airplane, Trump launched into a fond and
> >     factually questionable recollection of how he had bargained Boeing
> >     down from $5.7 billion for a two-plane deal to provide an updated
> >     ride befitting America�s Commander-in-Chief. ⤽I said, �It
> >     has to have a three on the front,� ⤝ Trump recalled of the
> >     negotiations. ⤽ �It has to have a three.� ⤝ The final 
> >     agreed-upon price with Boeing, which the Pentagon signed off on in
> >     2018, was $3.9 billion.
> > 
> >     But why, I wondered, did he feel so strongly about the upgrade?
> >     The answer, it turned out, was simple, and it had nothing to do
> >     with national security: Trump had a bad case of plane envy. ⤽Air
> >     Force One is now thirty-one years old,⤝ he said. ⤽People come
> >     in from, especially the Middle East countries, with brand-new
> >     747-800s, the brand-new super-duper-new one, and we have planes
> >     that are thirty-one years old.⤝ He recalled going to global
> >     summits and looking out his window at the airport tarmac: ⤽I
> >     would say, �Whose plane is that?� �That�s Saudi Arabia�s
> >     plane.� �That�s U.A.E.�s plane.� And you�d see a
> >     brand-new 747, and I�d say, �Well, the United States should be 
> >     properly represented.� ⤝
> > 
> >     This wasn�t just a passing twinge of jealousy...
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>     Trump needs to shit on a gold
> plated toilet. And who are we to 
> deny him that?
> 
> 
> 
> Inside Trump's private jet: The staggering 
> cost, gold-plated toilet
> May 12, 2025

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."