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DAVID MARCUS: Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't mental illness, it's mass hysteria

Article argues the phenomenon is classic mass hysteria that can only be addressed by fixing media messaging, not individuals

By David Marcus Fox News

Published May 23, 2026 10:24am EDT

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. raised some eyebrows last week by telling podcaster Adam Corolla that not only is Trump Derangement Syndrome a real thing, but that he has considered officially giving it an ICD (International Classification of Diseases) code.

While the secretary's remark may have been somewhat in jest (he was responding to a joke about a hypothetical TDS vaccine), he has been clear that the phenomenon that has torn apart so many Americans is indeed happening, including in his own family.

And it isn’t just Kennedy sounding the alarm. Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert argues that Trump Derangement Syndrome is not only genuine, but that it infects 75% of his liberal Manhattanite patients.

"This is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far to call it the defining pathology of our time," Alpert........

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