August 1, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
It's one of the latest waves of criticism they've thrown at him. A Blue Wave.
They say he is making them physically and mentally ill.
Before that they called him a Clown, a Fool, and a Russian Colluder. And before that they said he was deranged.
"Donald Trump has a dangerous mental illness, and is not fit to lead the U.S.," Dr. John Gartner said at a Yale School of Medicine conference in 2017.
"We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness."
Gartner is the founder of "Duty to Warn," an organization of several dozen health professionals who think Trump is nuts.
None of them have met with the president, but nonetheless, they are convinced they are right. They are basing their medical opinion on Trump's statement that he had "the largest crowd" at his Inauguration.
They say that's delusional, and symptomatic of a larger problem.
And it is.
Theirs. It turns out that they are the ones who are sick. The No-Trumpers.
They're calling their disease TDS, Trump Delusional Syndrome.
The afflicted are mostly Hillary supporters, some faceless, some famous.
When Kathy Griffin came down with it, she said tearfully, "He ruined me." Meaning Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg became lumpy and angry when she contracted the disease, becoming even angrier than "The View" co-host, Joy Behar, if that's possible.
But Hillary Clinton's case was the most tragic of all.
After being exposed to TDS, the Twice-Failed-Presidential-Candidate began wandering through the woods near her home in Chappaqua, guzzling oodles of Chardonnay, falling down and generally looking poorly.
She even donned a shapeless mum-muu this week, instead of her trademark pants suit.
But did the Trump disease actually make any of them do what they did? Or did they do it to themselves?
Did Trump make them "failures?"
Griffin had a hit reality show back in 2007, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List." Fans loved her, and especially her parents, Maggie and John.
Could holding up a bloody, severed head of the president have played a part in her fall from grace?
Whoopi was a popular actress, starring in good movies, "Ghost," and "Sister Act." But now she only appears on the hate-laced TV show, The View.
Could she, not Trump, be the cause of her angry unhappiness?
Whatever the cause of this malaise, we have it on good authority, although it is, of course, an "Unnamed Source" authority, that TDS isn't a real disease after all.
The real disease is "HasBeen-Itis."
HasBeen-Itis makes its victims think a good economy is a bad thing;
That America should be last, not first;
And that you don't have to be a legal U.S. citizen to be a U.S. citizen.
It is mostly found among people whose careers were tanking before Trump ever came on the scene.
TinselTowners like Alyssa Milano and Chelsea Handler, using Trump to grab their Fifteen Minutes. And politicians, like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.).
Ryan is looking pretty ragged these days. You need only look at his face to know the depth of his angst. Against Trump. It has made him unable to do his job as Speaker, yet, as a current Lame Duck, unable to say good-bye.
Is that a TDS-related symptom, or it is related to Ryan's close ties to Trump Haters, the Koch brothers? The ones who gave him $500,000 not so long ago?
But there are some "Am-Is's" who could also end up atop the trash heap. Like yesterday's Daily News, the anti-Trump paper who cut its staff by 50 percent this week.
And like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Socialist/Communist winner of the New York Democrat Congressional primary.
This community activist, member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and former Bernie Sanders campaign organizer, is a graduate of Boston University, with a major in economics and international relations.
Yet she seemed stumped when appearing on PBS's Firing Line, and was asked why she believed what she said she believed, when she decried the occupation of Palestine. In answer, she could only say she was not "an expert on geopolitics on the issue."
And when asked, she posited the view that unemployment, under the Trump Administration, is at a record-breaking low, because everyone has two jobs.
Like kindly Uncle Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez never learned that there is no such thing as a "free dog," and that she, and Venezuela, are the real face of Socialism.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All.