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Despite having no entry in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which serves as the primary reference for mental health diagnoses in the United States, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a very real and serious psychotic obsession afflicting many millions of Americans – i.e., Democrats and Never Trumpers. This condition renders sufferers incapable of rational thought and perspective, and is marked by humiliating public displays of inarticulate rage, an inability to be civil to Republican family members at Thanksgiving, and kneejerk accusations of racism, Nazism, and fascism against Trump, his administration, and his supporters. There is currently no known cure for this tragic derangement. All we can do for the afflicted is pity them.
A recent example of TDS highlights just how detached from reality its sufferers are. In an interview with CNN host Elex Michaelson on his new show The Story Is with Elex Michaelson, corrupt octogenarian Rep. Nancy Pelosi slipped into a demented rant about her arch-enemy President Trump, whom she claimed is making himself king.
In a video clip going viral on the internet, a doddering Pelosi mutters about the President, “He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the Earth. But anyway…” she trails off.
Michaelson jumps in: “You think he’s the worst thing on the face of the earth?”
“I do, yes. I do,” Pelosi confirms.
There is more, but let’s pause there for a moment.
CNN played this repeatedly on Monday, not because it exposed Pelosi’s TDS but because CNN delights in fomenting the demonization of Trump and his followers. On CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the eponymous hostess introduced the video this way: “She [Pelosi] unsurprisingly had some choice words about President Trump.”
Choice words, indeed. A bad choice. “Vile creature” is hyperbolic enough in its dehumanization of Trump, but the worst thing on the face of the Earth? Seriously? Again, “thing” rather than “person” is dehumanizing language that makes Trump a monster, not just a human being whose policies you oppose. This is the kind of language that leads agitated Left-wing maniacs to try to murder people – like Trump – in order to “save democracy.”
How can any sane person claim that Trump is worse than, say, Hamas terrorists who rape, torture, and murder whole Israeli families? Worse than the genocidal Muslims rampaging in the Sudan and Nigeria? Worse than human traffickers? Drug cartels? Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK? The list of heinous perpetrators of evil stalking the Earth is endless. Trump is worse? This is simply unbridled TDS.
Asked by Michaelson why she considers Trump the worst thing on the face of the Earth, Pelosi unloaded the crackpot contents of her cobwebbed mind:
Because he’s the President of the United States, and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States. In fact, he’s turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court, he’s abolished the House of Representatives, he’s chilled the press – he’s chilled the press. He’s scared people who are in the country legally, by making them – smashing into their cars and the rest…
She trailed off again, unable to find the thread of her point.
Nancy, just go home and eat some ice cream…nobody cares about your opinion! 🙄
But I will share this video for comedic reasons… because we like to laugh,
right?! 🤣 Anyway, she calls Trump a “vile creature” and mumbles on about absolute nonsense. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/lbrKarJbyi— Jannine.. #MagaMemeQueen ™️ 👑🇺🇸 (@janninereid1) November 4, 2025
Where to begin? First, it’s always amusing when Democrats pretend to revere the Constitution. Second, just because the Supreme Court doesn’t always rule in alignment with the Progressive agenda doesn’t make it a “rogue court.” Third, Trump has “abolished the House of Representatives”? What the hell is she on about? Fourth, Trump has hardly “chilled” the mainstream press, which remains as venomously biased as ever. Fifth, Trump doesn’t scare people who are here legally, only the ones who are here illegally, because enforcement of the law is actually a thing a flourishing nation requires. And finally – smashing into their cars? Again, what is the 85-year-old insider-trading enthusiast on about? The Democrats need to keep Pelosi away from even the sympathetic media.
On CNN, Kaitlyn Collins played the clip and posed this question to CNN analyst and former Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield:
Do you think that’s the right message for Democrats? I mean, what did you – I don’t think it’s surprising that she feels that way to anyone watching, including probably people at the White House. But I wonder what you made of that – her saying that now.
No one expected the propagandist Bedingfield to say anything truthful or substantial, but she replied with a repetitive word salad that would make Kamala Harris proud:
Yes, look, I mean, I think Nancy Pelosi has earned the right to say that. She’s somebody who has gone up against President Trump many, many times…
So, I think she’s more than earned the right to say that. I don’t think anybody watching was surprised to see her say it. I think as she’s getting ready, potentially, to retire, she has more than earned the right to speak her mind.
How do incompetents like this get work as political commentators? No one was challenging Pelosi’s “right to speak her mind.” Her freedom of speech is not the issue here. The issue is twofold: 1) Pelosi is too damn old to be in political office anymore (and yet she has filed a statement of candidacy for the 2026 election), and 2) her unhinged comment is simply another in a mountain of examples of how Democrats are so consumed by fear and loathing of Donald Trump that they equate him with the Antichrist.
Ever since Trump announced his first presidential campaign run as a Republican, the New York real estate and reality TV mogul formerly beloved by pretty much everybody has been vilified by TDS-afflicted Leftists as Hitler 2.0, a more dangerous fascist than Mussolini, an existential threat to democracy, the very embodiment of evil – the worst thing on the face of the Earth.
As has been pointed out many times by myself and others on the Right, this kind of open, seething hatred that Democrat leaders and talking heads exhibit for the President and for everyone in the MAGA movement is toxic for our political discourse and for the health of the country. It has driven us into a hot civil war in which the Left views even “civilians” on the Right as legitimate targets for assassination. America as we know it cannot long sustain itself under such conditions.
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