There’s a remedy for Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. Simply ask Michael Rapaport.
The actor/comic slammed President Donald Trump for years by way of his podcast and social media posts. Few have been as loud, or as harsh, because the “Stunning Ladies” alum.
Then, slowly, Rapaport had a change of coronary heart. He started listening to completely different factors of view. He questioned the media accounts flooding his smartphone display screen.
One instance? He apologized for believing the “very effective individuals” hoax. The Legacy Media, together with a sure former President, proceed to advertise that bald-faced lie.
Now, he’s not MAGA by any stretch, and he seemingly has reservations in regards to the Trump agenda. He merely has a practical, nuanced view of the sophisticated chief.
That hasn’t occurred to the next celebrities but.
They nonetheless rage towards President Trump as if each absurd cost towards him have been 100% true. Their anger stays white sizzling, and it’s pushed them to unhappy emotional states.
However who has probably the most extreme case of TDS?
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May or not it’s Kathy Griffin? She’s the OG TDS sufferer, courtesy of her notorious Trump decapitation picture. The “D-Checklist” alum apologized for the video earlier than she un-apologized. Her profession capsized on the time, a cultural second when fantasizing a few useless president led to societal shunning.
She wouldn’t endure as a lot skilled blowback had she shared that picture right this moment. Sure, the cultural decline is actual.
Her profession has but to totally get well. Most just lately, Griffin claimed that President Trump didn’t truly win the 2024 election. He stole it. She admits saying so aloud is loopy, however she went there all the identical.
She’s a powerful contender, however not the winner of this doubtful contest.
What about Robert De Niro? He has spent a full decade shrieking about President Trump from each platform potential … even the Tony Awards.
He’s nonetheless profanely attacking the president, most just lately on MSNBC.
“Trump doesn’t perceive something about humanity, individuals,” De Niro mentioned on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” “He has no empathy. I don’t know the place — what he’s, however he’s an alien, and he needs to harm this nation.”
The Oscar winner is a powerful contender, however he’s studying from the identical drained playbook. He additionally continues to work at a gentle clip.
What about Rosie O’Donnell? The previous “View” host hates Trump a lot she actually left the nation. She now calls Eire house, however her new deal with hasn’t dimmed her TDS.
As a substitute, it could have gotten worse.
She’s a potential winner, however her profession hasn’t been impacted by her TDS. She isn’t the cultural pressure she as soon as was.
Which leaves … Jimmy Kimmel.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” host has cried on-air over President Trump’s re-election. {That a} former “Man Present” host would weep like that’s past embarrassing.
Kimmel has turned his present right into a one-stop TDS discussion board. Night time after evening. Monologue after monologue. Kimmel rages towards all issues Trump-related.
He’s extra obsessed than even Stephen Colbert, and that’s saying one thing.
Most significantly, Kimmel practically misplaced his profession due to TDS. Final month, he tried to pin Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Trump’s MAGA motion, a declare so foul it sparked a week-long ABC suspension. He might have apologized the next evening for his feedback, and the matter would have been settled.
His TDS wouldn’t let him set the report straight like every accountable broadcaster would. He reportedly deliberate to double down on the misdirection earlier than ABC briefly pulled the plug on his present.
And, when he got here again on the air, Kimmel refused to take the lie again. Later, he claimed the Proper miscontrued his feedback to twist their that means.
That was one other lie.
He’s doubled down on his far-Left partisanship since returning to ABC. That has helped him shed all the brand new listeners he collected following his high-profile suspension.
Kimmel at the moment stands because the movie star with probably the most extreme case of TDS. We nonetheless have three-plus years of Trump’s second time period forward of us, so something can change transferring ahead.
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