“Trump derangement syndrome” Introduced in MN Senate Mental Health Bill, Leader Calls It “Tongue in Cheek”

ST. PAUL (KVRR/FOX9) — Minnesota Republican lawmakers want the state to add “Trump derangement syndrome” to its definition of mental illness.

The bill was introduced by five Republican lawmakers in the Minnesota Senate.

The bill defines the syndrome as “acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump.”

It goes on to say, “Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria”.

Minnesota DFL issued a statement in response saying in part, “every time they get an opportunity to try to improve Minnesotans’ lives,” Republicans “instead double down on an agenda that caters to their party’s most extreme right-wing activists.”

Sen. Mark Johnson, Republican Minority Leader from East Grand Forks told reporters, “Senate Republicans have always supported mental health funding, trying to make sure that there are resources available for that. There was a bill that was drafted that was a little bit tongue in cheek.

What you’ve seen in our committees has been really, they’ve been railroading our committees by talking about Trump more than they have been talking about the deficit and the problems that we have here in the state of Minnesota.”

The proposal is unlikely to be approved in the split legislature.