Mumbai: If you're an Indian salaried employee, the letters TDS trigger immediate heartburn. Tax Deducted at Source—the three most dreaded words after “we need to talk.” But fly westward across the Atlantic, and TDS has been diagnosed as something far more dangerous than a monthly nibble at your paycheck.

Behold, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)—a "terminal disease," according to the man himself, that "destroys the mind before the body, but the body eventually goes.” Move over, COVID. We’ve got TDS now, and it's going viral. Satirical ads, medical diagnoses, and now legislative bills—yes, actual American lawmakers (with functioning titles and possibly non-functioning logic) have attempted to classify TDS as a mental illness. Symptoms include uncontrollable eye-rolling at press conferences, muttering “not again” during his rallies, and........

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