And the Star with Worst Trump Derangement Syndrome Is …
Plenty of viable candidates, but this celebrity has gone above and beyond the rest
There is a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. Just ask Michael Rapaport.
The actor/comedian slammed President Donald Trump for years via his podcast and social media posts. Few were as loud, or as harsh, as the “Beautiful Girls” alum.
Then, slowly, Rapaport had a change of heart. He began listening to different points of view. He questioned the media accounts flooding his smartphone screen.
One example? He apologized for believing the “very fine people” hoax. The Legacy Media, along with a certain former President, continue to promote that bald-faced lie.
Now, he’s not MAGA by any stretch, and he likely has reservations about the Trump agenda. He simply has a realistic, nuanced view of the complicated leader.
That hasn’t happened to the following celebrities yet.
They still rage against President Trump as if every absurd charge against him were 100 percent true. Their anger remains white hot, and it’s driven them to sad emotional states.
But who has the most severe case of TDS?
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Could it be Kathy Griffin? She’s the OG TDS sufferer, courtesy of her infamous Trump decapitation photo. The “D-List” alum apologized for the video before she un-apologized. Her career capsized at the time, a cultural moment when fantasizing about a dead president led to societal shunning.
She wouldn’t suffer as much professional blowback had she shared that photo today. Yes, the cultural decline is real.
Her career has yet to fully recover. Most recently, Griffin claimed that President Trump didn’t actually win the 2024 election. He stole it. She admits saying so aloud is crazy, but she went there all the same.
She’s a strong contender, but not the winner of this dubious contest.
What about Robert De Niro? He has spent a full decade shrieking about President Trump from every platform possible … even the Tony Awards.
He’s still profanely attacking the president, most recently on MSNBC.
“Trump does not understand anything about humanity, people,” De Niro said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” “He has no empathy. I don’t know where — what he is, but he’s an alien, and he wants to hurt this country.”
The Oscar winner is a strong contender, but he’s reading from the same tired playbook. He also continues to work at a steady clip.
What about Rosie O’Donnell? The former “View” host hates Trump so much she literally left the country. She now calls Ireland home, but her new address hasn’t dimmed her TDS.
Instead, it may have gotten worse.
She’s a possible winner, but her career hasn’t been impacted by her TDS. She isn’t the cultural force she once was.
Which leaves … Jimmy Kimmel.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host has cried on-air over President Trump’s re-election. That a former “Man Show” host would weep like that is beyond embarrassing.
Kimmel has turned his show into a one-stop TDS forum. Night after night. Monologue after monologue. Kimmel rages against all things Trump-related.
He’s more obsessed than even Stephen Colbert, and that’s saying something.
Most importantly, Kimmel nearly lost his career because of TDS. Last month, he tried to pin Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Trump’s MAGA movement, a claim so foul it sparked a week-long ABC suspension. He could have apologized the following night for his comments, and the matter would have been settled.
His TDS wouldn’t let him set the record straight like any responsible broadcaster would. He reportedly planned to double down on the misdirection before ABC briefly pulled the plug on his show.
And, when he came back on the air, Kimmel refused to take the lie back. Later, he claimed the Right miscontrued his comments to twist their meaning.
That was another lie.
He’s doubled down on his far-Left partisanship since returning to ABC. That has helped him shed all the new listeners he collected following his high-profile suspension.
Kimmel currently stands as the celebrity with the most severe case of TDS. We still have three-plus years of Trump’s second term ahead of us, so anything can change moving forward.
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Colbert, an Irish-American, was born with both cheeks of his butt branded with “D.” Like many people born into a tribe of sorts, his brain has been unable to look at anything he deems political from a pro/con point of view.
His sister ran for a House seat in Maryland, but she lost the primary.
Don’t ever expect reasonableness or fairness from people like him. His ego is entirely consumed by the propagandizing that began at birth.
As for Rappaport–he is an ego-centric person, as bad as the others. He does serve as a good example of one thing–some voters don’t bother to educated themselves on anything until danger and suffering hits home. Rappoport is Jewish. There is only one reason he changed his views: the slaughter of innocent Jews. Why did that change him? Trump stood by the innocents and the state of Israel. The Dem Party didn’t. True. Go back and read his comments up to and after that attack.
Until then, he would have tried telling you he was a voter who “cared about other people and their problems.” Oh, really? Why did he not care about the problems of so many Americans which Trump has and is still attempting to address?
DeNiro? Totally unhinged human being and living in a make-believe world of his own making. Actors have a tendency to do that any way. It’s their nature. I would imagine that as an octogenarian he also cared about continuing to get work.
Kimmel is simply a man who was living on borrowed time professionally, I’ve really never met a person who has said, “You know I make a point of watching Kimmel before I pull up the covers.” Low ratings, very low ratings. He saw the contract of his friend Colbert not be renewed. He is a grasper: “hold on to what you’ve got–you’re not likely to get anything better in life.” So, what to do? Hold on tight to the progressives schtick, and maybe the people with TDS will reward you.
A man died, a fine man was assassinated and Kimmel sold his soul for ratings to eek out a few more months of work.
Jimmy Kimmel has a permanent condescending smirk on his face, so not good, but De Niro gives off more of an unhinged foaming at the mouth vibe, so I go with De Niro.
Worst individual TDS? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
More of a concern to me is the escalating left wing violence immorally incited by large numbers of TDS celebrities and politicians against conservatives and law enforcement.
Mark Ruffalo and John Cusak would both be tied for second place in my book.
Who really cares what these foolish people think? Being famous and being stupid are not correlated, statistically, but I’m beginning to wonder. Three and half more years of Trump will see most of them dead and forgotten.
Oddly the only reason I’m aware of the unhinged comments from those you listed is because breitbart posts every stupid thing those people say – otherwise I wouldn’t know.