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One Arizona Lawmakers introduced a bill this week directing state health officials to study so-called “trump derangement syndrome(TDS), an invented medical condition chairman And his allies have accused him of harassing his strongest critics.
Senate Bill 1070, introduced on Monday by state Senator Jane Champ, gives the Arizona Department of Health Services one year to study the so-called “origins, manifestations and long-term effects on individuals, communities and public discourse.” SituationWhich is not recognized by mainstream medical organizations.
Far from simply directing a study, this bill would establish a series of legislative findings, including the claim that “irrational hostility” tds caused the Two assassination attempts against Trump last yearWhile other findings praise the President’s “contributions to America’s prosperity”, such as “ending harmful mandates and affirming biological truth in federal policy to protect family values.”
Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs unlikely to sign Champ’s bill, a registered nurse Strong Trump Supporter,
Will Humble, former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, told arizona’s family The proposal is “silly”.
“You’re ordering a state agency to do a lot of work that has no purpose, no meaningful results,” he said. “And, by the way, that’s outside their mission – they’re not social scientists.”
Independent Champ has been contacted for comment.
Arizona effort follows Republican efforts in minnesota and at federal level Codifying or studying invented syndromes.
Word “trump derangement syndrome“The term was coined during Trump’s first term, and since then, the president and his supporters have often used the term to dismiss the president’s strongest critics as mentally ill.
recently, The President claimed that TDS was responsible The murder of director Rob Reiner and his wife led to widespread outrage. Renner, a lifelong progressive, was a frequent public critic of the President.
The President used a similar strategy last year, He claimed that his former chief of staff John Kelly suffered from TDS After Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
Individual psychological providers have claimed that some of their patients suffer from TDS.
“Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Real? No serious mental-health professional would offer such a biased and insulting diagnosis,” Jonathan Alpert wrote In a November op-ed wall street journal“Yet I have seen it in my psychotherapy practice,”