The 2002–2004 outbreak of SARS, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), infected over 8,000 people from 30 countries and territories, and resulted in at least 774 deaths worldwide. The outbreak was first identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002.
The United States Center for Disease Control issued another string of travel warnings as the chikungunya virus continues to spread across the globe with outbreaks in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and Indian and Pacific Oceans. Warnings for eight countries were announced by the CDC on Aug. 15
What is Chikungunya Disease?
Chikungunya disease is caused by the chikungunya virus and is spread to humans through mosquito bites.
"Most people infected with chikungunya virus develop some symptoms. Symptoms of chikungunya usually begin 3–7 days after a bite by an infected mosquito. The most common symptoms are fever and joint pain," the CDC said in a statement. "Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, or rash. Most people get better within a week; however, some can have severe joint pain for months to years following acute illness."
Death from chikungunya is rare, but the people at risk for more severe disease include newborns infected around the time of birth, older adults (65 years or older), and people with medical conditions such as diabetes or heart disease.
There is no specific treatment for the virus, though two vaccines are licensed in the United States.
Chikungunya disease is caused by the chikungunya virus and is spread to humans through mosquito bites.
Symptoms
Fever and joint pain
Headache
Muscle Pain
Joint Swelling
Rash
Per the symptoms I think I caught the virus about the time I turned 70. At 80 all the symptoms are still there so I think it lasts for more than a few weeks.
Dick - I guess you don’t watch the left news and Democrat speeches. They have been calling the Republicans liars, raciest, fascist, etc. for at least 8 years. I guess you are not aware that a few of the news programs are paying millions of dollars for the falsehoods they have printed and telecast.
We have had over 6" of rain in the last week here in North Carolina. Mushrooms are popping up everywhere.
Hurricane Erwin is out in the Atlantic Ocean running parallel to the coast. Hopefully it will stay there and our part of North Carolina will be spared the rain and winds from it. If we get any rain from Erwin, we will have enough mushrooms for everyone.
WORST OF THE WORST: ICE Arrests in Georgia Skyrocket under Trump Administration
367% increase in arrests of illegal aliens in the Peach State compared to Biden
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 4,500 illegal aliens in Georgia between January 20 and July 31. These numbers reflect a 367% increase of illegal alien arrests compared to the 963 arrests during the same period in 2021 under the Biden administration.
“Biden’s open border polices allowed Laken Riley’s killer to be in the country and gave him the opportunity brutally murder the young Georgia nursing student. President Trump promised to put Americans first and remove violent criminals from our country and that’s exactly what we are doing,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Thanks to his and Secretary Noem’s leadership, ICE is once again empowered to remove the worst of the worst—including murderers, pedophiles, gang members, drug traffickers, and terrorists. In Georgia alone, arrests of illegal aliens have increased by 367%.”
Below are some of the worst of the worst arrested in Georgia under President Trump:
Osvaldo Rodriguez-Padilla, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of importing 20.9 kilograms of mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine.
Flavio Delabra Rebollar, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of distribution of methamphetamine, drug trafficking, multiple weapon offenses, and illegal entry.
Jacob Aguillon-Martinez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, arrested for homicide-negligent manslaughter-vehicle and hit and run.
Juan Carlos Mendoza-Gonzalez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of statutory rape and child molestation/aggravated child molestation.
Eduardo Garcia-Gonzalez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, arrested for two counts of child molestation and two counts of sexual battery against a child under 16, and possession of a schedule II-controlled substance and possession of drug related objects.
Robert Edward Matos-Madueno, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, arrested for child molestation, sexual battery against a child under 16, and false imprisonment.
Luis Alfredo Betancourth-Euceda, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras, convicted of two counts of sexual battery against a child under 16.
Armando Garcia Ramos, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, whose criminal history includes attempted felony murder and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, a conviction for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and an arrest for driving without a valid license.
Matilde Romero Sanchez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, arrested for incest and child molestation.
Fernando Hernandez-Martinez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of two counts ofchild molestation
AND OLD ONE OUT FOR TRASH DAY. SOMEONE WALKING BY ASKED ME IF IT WORKED. I SAID YES GOT A POWER CORD PLUG IT IN AND WENT UP AN DOWN MY DRIVE. JUST ABOUT CAUSED AN ACCIDENT.
One of our former PhD students at U. of Wisconsin–Madison who recently retired as a professor at Australia's U. of Newcastle posed the following, provocative challenge on Facebook tonight: "Name a nation which part owns its major international corporations and uses the military to police the capital city…."
He's U.S.-born and went to Washington University in St. Louis as an undergraduate.
Back in 1990, Gorbachev continued efforts he'd begun during Reagan's presidency to unravel the USSR's totalitarianism. Gorbachev's Foreign Ministry asked H.W. Bush's State Department to identify a leading center of educational research to meet with that country's leading educational researchers.
Long story short, in May 1990, I arrived at Moscow's Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences as the head of a five-campus U. of Wisconsin team. With KGB "minders" looming, Russian researchers held their tongues. They spoke eagerly and openly whenever the coast was clear. With armed patrols in Moscow and citizens always required to carry passports in their own country, it was suffocating. Once my Delta/Aeroflot flight back to Frankfurt and the U.S. was safely underway, the entire planeload of passengers erupted into spontaneous, relieved applause.
I was reminded of this experience by the Australian professor's allusion to the current climate in our country.
“Psychologists reveal Trump showing 'dead ringer' symptom of horror disease getting 'worse and worse'Photo VDr John Gartner and Dr Harry Segal noticed Trump swinging his right leg (Image: RA Media)
Donald Trump's psychomotor performance is getting 'worse and worse' as the president exhibits a 'telltale' sign of frontotemporal dementia, according to two clinical psychologists
Photo caption----Clinical psychologists Dr John Gartner and Dr Harry Segal have sounded the alarm over the president's psychomotor performance as they claim the 79-year-old is exhibiting clear signs of dementia.
Speaking on the latest episode of their Shrinking Trump show, Dr Gartner explained: "Some of the more evidence that we've been talking about recently has been his psychomotor performance, that we're seeing a deterioration in his motor performance, which also goes with dementia because with dementia there's a deterioration of all faculties, all functions." It comes as Trump ‘desperately’ tries to hide the back of his hand as fears for the 'thinned-out' president's health soar.
He continued: "The language and the verbal dysfunction is what we notice first and also what we notice in terms of his public behavior, but now his motor performance is starting to get worse and worse."
Dr Gartner revealed it's not just any type of dementia he believes Trump could be suffering from, as he claimed the president has recently been displaying a "telltale sign" of frontotemporal dementia. Frontotemporal dementia is an uncommon type of dementia that causes problems with behaviour and language.
Dick - It amazes me that the Psychologists, Dr. John Gartner and Dr Harry Segal didn’t sound the alarm on Biden mental decline.
“Psychologists John Gartner, Harry Segal, and their expert guests, conduct weekly sessions analyzing the psyche of Donald Trump, documenting his cognitive decline and plumbing the depths of his malignant narcissism.
Dr. Gartner is a former part-time assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and the founder of Duty to warn, an association of mental health professionals warning about Trump and Trump-ism.
Dr. Segal is a senior lecturer in psychology at Cornell University. “
It looks like they have been doing this for a long time. If their income is based on trashing Trump, do you think they might be a little bias?
Key words in your post are "sad, if accurate." I think Nova's post shows that this is NOT "accurate." However, what IS accurate is "Doctor" Evan's diagnosis, a couple of months ago, of your acute "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Please, for everyone on this site, get over it and accept this fact...Trump will be our/your President for another 3-1/2 years.
The origin of the term is traced to Charles Krauthammer, a conservative political columnist, commentator, and psychiatrist, who coined the phrase Bush derangement syndrome in 2003 during the presidency of George W. Bush. That "syndrome" was defined by Krauthammer as "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of George W. Bush".[10][11][12][13] The first use of the term Trump derangement syndrome may have been by Esther Goldberg in an August 2015 op-ed in The American Spectator; she applied the term to "Ruling Class Republicans" who are dismissive or contemptuous of Trump.[14] Krauthammer, in an op-ed commented that—in addition to general hysteria about Trump—the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" was the "inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and ... signs of psychic pathology".[13]
According to The Independent, "the highly-politicized term" was coined to dismiss criticism of Trump in his first term as liberal hysteria, suggesting that people abandon all logic and reason due to their dislike of the president.[15]
Definition
Fareed Zakaria defined the term as "hatred of President Trump so intense that it impairs people's judgment".[4][16] CNN's editor-at-largeChris Cillizza called TDS "the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those who oppose him and his policies as nothing more than the blind hatred of those who preach tolerance and free speech".[1]Pointing to previous allegations of Bush derangement syndrome and Obama derangement syndrome, Cillizza suggested, "Viewed more broadly, the rise of presidential derangement syndromes is a function of increased polarization—not to mention our national self-sorting—at work in the country today."[1]Bret Stephens has described the term as something used by conservative groups whenever someone speaks out critically against Trump, regardless of political affiliation.[17]
CNN political analyst John Avlon uses the term in a more generalized sense inclusive of positive emotions as well as hatred towards Trump, so that for example, TDS accounts for denialism about Trump's defeat in the 2020 election, as a "political diagnosis" of people who "simply can't accept the fact that he lost the election".[18] This new definition derogatorily describing the nature of Trump supporters rather than his deriders has been picked up by others and widely used
Politico co-founder John Harris wrote that TDS is related to gaslighting, "another psychological concept in vogue in the Trump era".[19]
The term has been widely applied by pro-Trump writers to critics of Trump, accusing them of responding negatively to a wide range of Trump's statements and actions.
The use of the term has been called part of a broader GOP strategy to discredit criticisms of Trump's actions, as a way of "reframing" the discussion by suggesting his political opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world. However, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson of Annenberg Public Policy Center, the term could backfire on Trump supporters because people might interpret it to mean that Trump is the one who is "deranged", rather than those who criticize him.[2] Some Trump supporters have asserted that he plays a form of "multi-dimensional chess" on a mental level his critics cannot comprehend, which they say explains why critics are frustrated and confused by Trump's words and actions.Fox News anchor Bret Baier and former Speaker of the U.S. House of RepresentativesPaul Ryan have characterized Trump as a "troll" who makes controversial statements to see his adversaries' "heads explode".
The term has been used by journalists critical of Trump to call for restraint.[4][5][6] Fareed Zakaria, who urged Americans to vote against Trump calling him a "cancer on American democracy", argues that every Trump policy "cannot axiomatically be wrong, evil and dangerous".[4]Adam Gopnik, who takes a strong anti-Trump position, responded to these assertions that it is a "huge and even fatal mistake for liberals (and constitutional conservatives) to respond negatively to every Trump initiative, every Trump policy, and every Trump idea". Arguing that Trump's opponents must instead recognize that the real problem is "Deranged Trump Self-Delusion", Gopnik defined the "Syndrome" as President Trump's "daily spasm of narcissistic gratification and episodic vanity".[22]
According to Newsweek, Trump and his top communication advisers, including current White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and communications director Steven Cheung have repeatedly accused many critics of having a "severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome". The phrase has also been used by Republican politicians and talk show hosts. Newsweek was also accused of suffering from TDS by Cheung. Democrats and others have contended that it is not a legitimate condition, and no clinical data supports its existence and that instead, it is a label used to dismiss criticism of him. Some point out that TDS may also apply to die-hard Trump supporters who defend him unquestioningly without any regard of facts or consequences.[30]
Examples of use
Senator Rand Paul has cited the so-called syndrome several times. In a July 16, 2018, interview he said investigators should simply focus on election security and stop "accusing Trump of collusion with the Russians and all this craziness that's not true"—accusations which he said were entirely motivated by "Trump derangement syndrome".[31]
Trump used the term in a tweet following the 2018 Russia–United States summit in Helsinki: "Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome!"[32][33] He also used it in a tweet about Alan Dershowitz's book The Case Against Impeaching Trump: ".@AlanDersh, a brilliant lawyer, who although a Liberal Democrat who probably didn't vote for me, has discussed the Witch Hunt with great clarity and in a very positive way. He has written a new and very important book called 'The Case Against Impeaching Trump', which I would encourage all people with Trump Derangement Syndrome to read!"[34]
Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative term used to describe negative reactions to U.S. President Donald Trump that are characterized as irrational and disconnected from Trump's actual policy positions.[1] The term has mainly been used by Trump supporters to discredit criticism of him, as a way of reframing the discussion by suggesting that his opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world,[2][3] thus making TDS a logical fallacy. Some journalists have used the term to call for restraint when judging Trump's statements and actions.[4][5][6] The term has also come to be used to describe the nature of Trump supporters in their unwavering support of the president.[7][8][9]
In July 2018, Jeanine Pirro was a guest on The View to promote her newly published book. While she was responding to a question about how the "deep state" really works, she accused co-host Whoopi Goldberg of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.[35] That same month, Eric Zorn wrote in the Chicago Tribune that the syndrome afflicts Trump's supporters more than his critics, as "what Team Trump is calling derangement is, in most cases, rational concern about his behavior and the direction he's taking the country.... The true Trump Derangement Syndrome loose on the land is the delusion suffered by those who still think he's going to make this country a better place for average people."[3]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary in the first Trump administration, made use of the term online.
In August 2018, Trump White House Press SecretarySarah Huckabee Sanders used the term in a tweet: "Trump Derangement Syndrome is becoming a major epidemic among Democrats. Instead of freaking out about the booming Trump economy why not celebrate it?"[36]
In September 2018, Fox News personality and Trump supporter, Sean Hannity, criticized The Washington Post as having Trump derangement syndrome for stating in an editorial that Trump, because of his attitude toward climate change, is "complicit" in hurricanes battering the United States;[37][38] Hannity said, "it is now a full-blown psychosis, it is a psychological level of unhingement I have never seen."[37]
In March 2019, Bill Maher on Real Time with Bill Maher noted that while most statements by Trump were worthy of contempt, on occasions he had made perfectly sensible comments which were pilloried without justification. A case in point was Trump's criticism of the overengineering which led to the Boeing 737 MAX crashes and his preference for products to be simpler to use, which some commentators interpreted as evidence of conservative leanings.[39]
In September 2019, Sean Hannity characterized as "Trump derangement syndrome" the continuing press coverage of Trump's days-long insistence that he was correct to state on September 1 that Hurricane Dorian posed a danger to Alabama, asserting "pretty much every newsroom in America screwed this up and lied to you", adding there were "a lot of psychotic jackasses in the media mob".[42]
The term resurfaced in 2024 concerning reactions to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and eventual defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris. In October 2024, Bill Maher, expressing his concerns regarding a second Trump term stated, "It's not deranged to fear this! It's not deranged to find this alarming!"[43] A House Democrat stated following the election that the Democratic Party needed to "get past this idea they call 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'".[44]
In February 2025, Elon Musk revived the term and told Fox News host Sean Hannity he used to be "adored by the left" until they were infected with TDS. He added that when he mentioned the president's name at a dinner party before his return to the White House, "it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies".[15]
During the Signalgate scandal, Trump angrily criticized U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, calling him "disgraceful" and accused him of suffering from a "MASSIVE" Trump derangement syndrome, among other things, after the judge was assigned to oversee the case involving the chats which according to him is statistically impossible.[45][46]
Trump severely criticized four "disloyal" Republican Senators Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul who indicated they will join Democrats in voting for a joint resolution to end the national emergency declared by him to undo Trump tariffs on Canada, calling them "extremely difficult" and implored them to "get on the Republican bandwagon" and remain loyal to their party. He so wrote, "Why are they allowing Fentanyl to pour into our Country unchecked, and without penalty. What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS?" in the overnight Truth Social post.[47]
In June of 2025 during the height of President Trump's feud with his ex-DOGE chief, Elon Musk, Trump suggested the Musk "is suffering from 'Trump derangement syndrome.'"[48]
Proposed laws
A group of Minnesota Senate Republicans introduced a bill[49] in March 2025 that seeks to classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness and incorporate it into the state's legal definition through amended statutes.[30] The bill has proposed that the "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" which should be recognized in legal and medical contexts.[50][15] The bill also states that the 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 Trump's behavior" which can manifest as "intense verbal hostility toward Trump" and "overt acts of aggression and violence" towards Trump and MAGA supporters.[30][15] The Minnesota bill uses the same wording that Krauthammer used to describe Bush derangement syndrome.[15] A day after the bill was introducing in Minnesota, Justin Eichorn, one of the five senators who introduced the bill, was arrested for soliciting a minor.[51]
U.S. Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio introduced a bill in May 2025 that would require the National Institutes of Health to study Trump derangement syndrome and report annually to Congress. Davidson said "TDS has divided families, the country, and led to nationwide violence — including two assassination attempts on President Trump. The TDS Research Act would require the NIH to study this toxic state of mind, so we can understand the root cause and identify solutions."[52]
In several ways, RFK Jr. scares me even more than DJT, and that is saying a lot. I worry for my kids and grandkids' health. K Jr.. is a fool. His Dad would be ashamed and embarrassed.
From Dr. Gary Price
6 hours ago)
Susan Monarez, who just weeks ago became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has abruptly left her job after a tumultuous month that included dramatic shifts in vaccine policy and layoffs of the agency’s work force.
People familiar with the matter, who spoke anonymously for fear of retribution, said Dr. Monarez appeared to have run afoul of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by objecting to his changes to the panel of experts who advise the agency on vaccine policy."
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