If anybody suffers from a derangement linked to President Donald Trump, it is not the opponents who viscerally object to our current president’s malignant narcissism, unending lies and determined manipulation of what is un-American in us.

Actual Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is among those who so blindly support our current president. They imagine that opposition to him arises not from simple decency but from conspiracies hatched against him simply because he is Trump.

In one manifestation of real TDS, Trumpers discerned a sinister plot at work when longtime Obama strategist 71-year-old David Axelrod was granted an April 9 audience with Pope Loe XIV at the Vatican.

Axelrod is Jewish, but he feels a bond with the Pope as a fellow son of Chicago and dedicated White Sox fan.

Axelrod is also the father of a developmentally disabled daughter who found secular salvation and happiness in a remarkable residential facility founded by a nun on the city’s North Side and run under the auspices of Catholic Charities.

The photos of David Axelrod's meeting with the pope are out Axelrod's mysterious 'entourage' were just his family and Axelrod can be seen giving the pope some White Sox related photosAxelrod's daughter lives in a residential community run by the Catholic Church in Chicago pic.twitter.com/qVGA3dGzxV— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) April 16, 2026

The photos of David Axelrod's meeting with the pope are out Axelrod's mysterious 'entourage' were just his family and Axelrod can be seen giving the pope some White Sox related photosAxelrod's daughter lives in a residential community run by the Catholic Church in Chicago pic.twitter.com/qVGA3dGzxV

“For the first time, her days were rife with activities and her life was filled with friends,” Axelrod wrote in The New York Times in 2021. “While she has........

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