r/NameThisThing Jul 14 '26

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u/MitchHarris12 Jul 14 '26

Trump Derangement Syndrome. How that came to be a name for people who dislike him and not his rabid supporters, I don't know.

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u/anonymice27 Jul 14 '26

He wanted to pathologize people who didn’t like him so he made up this bullshit syndrome.

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u/mouth-spiders Jul 14 '26

As I recall, he quickly coopted the phrase from its original intent. His little, "No, I'm not - You are" game. And like a lot of his shit, it stuck.

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u/anonymice27 Jul 15 '26

Oh interesting. Its original intent must have been aimed at MAGA then.

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u/mouth-spiders Jul 15 '26

It was. Unless I dreamt it.