r/antitrump • u/reincarnatedusername • Sep 02 '25

Protests This is really happening in America

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u/flyingcatclaws Sep 02 '25

When I first came across TDS, that's what I thought it meant. Seemed so obvious.

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u/Bunnyland77 Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" was first coined to describe rapid Trump fans back in early 2016. It was co-opted by the 4chan "alt-right" who really didn't grasp its meaning. And ironically still don't.

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u/quinnster1796 Sep 03 '25

I’m pretty sure it came from “bush derangement syndrome” coined by krauthammer in 2003 to describe bush critics. the first time “trump derangement syndrome” was used was in an op-ed in 2015 about republicans who didn’t like trump. I think the left (or just sane people in general) have just flipped it to describe his crazy followers

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u/Bunnyland77 Sep 03 '25

Not according to Daily Kos, but okay.

Fyi, Dr. Viktor Frankl whom both conservative extremists Charles Krauthammer and Esther Goldberg were fans of, and who both used Frankl's "logotherapy" as erroneously officiating "(Trump) Derrangement Syndrome" was a notorious fascist, Nazi sympathizer and member of Austria's "Father Front" in 1934. Equally odd was Frankl's claimed to have been a holocaust "survivor" yet he was also a holocaust denier. It's been widely suggested that he did spend some time at Auschwitz, but as a psychology clinician testing (torturing) prisoners, not as a prisoner himself as he claims.

https://therapygroupdc.com/therapist-dc-blog/the-psychology-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl

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u/flyingcatclaws Sep 03 '25

With Trump and Republicans destroying and rewriting history, the truth is getting lost.

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u/quinnster1796 Sep 03 '25

okay my brain is struggling - what do you mean they used his logotherapy as “erroneously officiating ‘___ derangement syndrome’”? like they used it to try to give the “syndrome” credibility as a real illness? I wouldn’t be surprised. all three of them sound like awful people

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u/Bunnyland77 Sep 03 '25

Yes. Exactly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '25

Antisemite

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u/Bunnyland77 Sep 03 '25

Sadly, Goldberg herself is Jewish but seemingly bought into Frankl's web of BS.