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Conservatives have joked about Trump Derangement Syndrome for years. I’ve used the phrase more times than I can count. Usually it’s about some cable news host melting down because Trump breathed, or another celebrity threatening to move to Canada for the twentieth time. But this isn’t funny anymore.
The Secret Service has opened more than 10,000 threat investigations this year. That’s a 40 percent jump from the same period last year. Director Sean Curran, a man with 24 years on the job, called the current environment “off the charts.” This is’t partisan spin. This is the agency responsible for keeping the president alive telling us something has gone very wrong.
Political rhetoric has always been rough. That’s not new.
What is new is the scale and consistency of the demonization. For nearly a decade, Donald Trump hasn’t just been called wrong or dangerous. he’s been called Hitler. A fascist. A dictator. A rapist. The end of democracy. An existential threat that must be stopped at all costs.
Cable news treated it like sport. Hollywood treated it like virtue. The more extreme the comparison, the more applause it generated. Somewhere along the way, calling the President of the United States the next Hitler stopped being hyperbolic and became ordinary language.
I’m not claiming every person who used that language wanted violence. But if you spend ten years telling millions of people that one man represents pure evil, you shouldn’t act stunned when unstable people decide they’re the ones who have to stop him.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was supposed to happen back in April, but we all saw what happened then. A man showed up with guns and knives, broke through one security checkpoint, and shot a Secret Service agent, with the intent to kill the president.
The rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner is happening tomorrow. After the April attack forced the original event to be shut down, they’re trying again at Trump’s insistence. It will be at the Waldorf Astoria, with tighter security.
U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran on a security briefing ahead of rescheduled WHCA dinner: “I think the environment has become very volatile, and that’s just across the board.” pic.twitter.com/umgOK3GjHD
— CSPAN (@cspan) July 22, 2026
Before predictable objections start flying: yes, free speech includes the right to call the president Hitler. Rosie O’Donnell has that right. Keith Olbermann has that right. Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, James Carville, Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen, and Hasan Piker all have that right. Nobody is arguing they should be silenced. Well, except for Hasan Piker. That little Tankie Maoist cosplayer treats politics like a holy war. So if his platform went away, I would not be upset.
(Killers of the fallen soldiers shown) pic.twitter.com/It23n831Dm
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 22, 2026
Rosie O’Donnell: “He does not look well, the POTUS, the orange administration. Everyone has to vote and if he tries to take away our right to vote, America has to say no fucking way. You have done enough damage, hit the road. The fact that he’s made billions of dollars in the… pic.twitter.com/efvLyRHvmE
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) July 23, 2026
Joy Reid says the attack at Butler and at the WHCD might’ve been staged, with Russia’s assistance pic.twitter.com/qawZtxjXWk
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 27, 2026
Deranged Democrat James Carville suffered from an embarrassing TDS meltdown.
He ranted about the Democrat Party’s “genuine visceral hatred” of President Trump for making America great again.
So much for the party of peace, love, and tolerance. pic.twitter.com/SURKpocjtI
— Lance Gooden (@Lancegooden) May 28, 2026
James Carville says Speaker Mike Johnson and Christian Nationalism are a bigger threat to America than al-Qaeda. pic.twitter.com/bF8TMEVhSd
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 4, 2023
Free speech has never meant freedom from criticism or from the foreseeable results of your own words.
If you spend years telling your audience that Trump is not a political opponent but the embodiment of evil, you have helped remove the moral restraints that normally keep political disagreement from turning into something darker.
10,000 threats didn’t just appear out of thin air. Trump has survived multiple assassination attempts. The director of Secret Servicce says this is the worse environment he’s seen in 24 years on the job.
And we’re supposed to believe this has nothing to do with a decade of relentless dehumanization?
When the agency responsible for protecting the president says the threats are “off the charts,” we are no longer talking about cable news meltdowns or celebrity tantrums. We’re now talking about a national security problem because of it.
For a long time, Trump Derangement Syndrome was just a punchline, a way to describe people who couldn’t cope with Donald J. Trump. It was an easy way to laugh at people who seemed to lose all sense of perspective whenever he entered the conversation. We rolled our eyes, made a few jokes, and assumed it would eventually burn itself out.
But now, apparently, it’s become a national security issue. As it turns out, there was more truth behind the joke than most of us realized.
Feature Image: AI-generated illustration.
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