Minnesota Republicans introduce bill to classify Trump derangement syndrome as a mental illness

"We are simply trying to help those who don't realize they have a mental illness," said Sen. Nathan Wesenberg, one of the authors of the bill.

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President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in November 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Shutterstock)

A group of Minnesota Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to classify “Trump derangement syndrome” as a mental illness.

The bill, Senate File 2589, is being carried by Republican Sens. Eric Lucero, Steve Drazkowski, Nathan Wesenberg, Justin Eichorn, and Glenn Gruenhagen.

It would add the term “Trump derangement syndrome” to the definition of mental illness in state statute.

The bill defines Trump derangement syndrome as the “acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump.”

“Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior,” the bill states.

Trump derangement syndrome may be exhibited in “verbal expressions of intense hostility” toward President Trump or “overt acts of aggression and violence” against his supporters, according to the bill.

“Mental illness can come in all shapes and forms and an irrational fear of something is not healthy. We are simply trying to help those who don’t realize they have a mental illness,” Sen. Wesenberg told Alpha News.

President Trump’s campaign arm responded to the bill on social media by publishing “an image of [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz exhibiting a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly referred to as ‘TDS eyes.'”

The bill was referred to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.

 

Anthony Gockowski

Anthony Gockowski is Editor-in-Chief of Alpha News. He previously worked as an editor for The Minnesota Sun and Campus Reform, and wrote for the Daily Caller.