Miranda Divine: Trump Derangement Fever Is Breaking

I don't believe this, but what do you think?

It's early days, but there are signs that Trump Derangement Syndrome is on the way out. And the Middle East peace deal that President Trump pulled off through sheer force of personality is part of the reason.

No, Trump's energy and success makes the mentally-ill even crazier. Mentally-ill people do not ever say, "You know, upon further reflection, you made some good points, and I think you're probably right."

No, mentally-ill people get box cutters and come looking for payback.

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European leaders took a back seat and meekly kowtowed to Trump.

On the sidelines in Egypt, Trump gave weaselly Emmanuel Macron a bone-crusher handshake that lasted an excruciating 26 seconds, as the French president tried not to wince.

Trump also delivered one of the most humiliating political moments ever captured on video to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

"Where is the United Kingdom? Where's my friend? Come here," Trump said as the delighted PM bounced forward to join him at the podium. But Trump just shook his hand and said, "It's very nice that you're here," before turning his back and continuing his speech as Starmer slunk back to his seat in shame.

That humiliation of Starmer is big news in the UK. Treating Starmer as a second-rater confirms the UK's status as a second-rater country (and fading fast).

It may have been an inadvertent snub, or it may have been one of the calibrated social maneuvers that Trump plays like a Stradivarius while acting oblivious.

An inadvertent snub is much worse than a calculated one. At least with a calculated snub, the person snubbing you thought about you ahead of time.

With an inadvertent snub, they never thought of you at all.

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Trump's dominant energy is a welcome shield to ward off the circling sharks salivating over the recent enfeeblement of the United States by a string of weak and feckless leaders.

How far this country has come in just a year. It used to be when we saw these Eurofops confabbing with an American president, that was Joe Biden, chronically tardy, forgetting photo ops (or faux-humbly standing in the back row), getting lost, tripping, wandering off and telling tall tales.

How they must have laughed when he kept repeating the brag, "America is back, stronger than ever."

Biden billed himself as a foreign policy expert, yet he made a mess of everything.

By the time he left, two major wars had exploded, China was emboldened, and he had left the Taliban $7 billion in military equipment after his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In eight months, Trump has upended the old world order, in trade, in war and peace, and in telling the Europeans to start paying for their own defense.

No lies detected.

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One sign was Brandi Kruse, a social media "citizen journalist" invited to the recent Antifa roundtable at the White House, who described herself as a recovered TDS sufferer.

Covering left-wing riots in Seattle the past five years had flipped her.

Now she says she is "happier, healthier, more successful," and even "a little more attractive."

Let's hope shrugging off Trump Derangement Syndrome proves the same for the country.

Read the whole thing. I think they're going to get crazier and crazier until they encourage another assassin. Only after a huge wave of national revulsion will they begin attempting to hide their insanity.

It won't cure them, of course. But they'll be less eager to show their florid mental illness publicly.

posted by Ace at 02:20 PM

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