Rosie O'Donnell said even her therapist doesn't understand her Trump Derangement Syndrome

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 September 30, 2025

Former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell told MSNBC's Nicole Wallace on her weekly podcast that even her therapist has asked her why she hates President Donald Trump so much and doesn't understand why her Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS, not that they call it that) has gotten so out of control.

She appeared on Wallace's "The Best People with Nicole Wallace" on Monday to continue spewing her invective against the president, referring to the small number of people who now appear to regret voting for Trump.

“When people say ‘I changed my mind,’ we have to say ‘Welcome back to reality. Let’s all be Americans together.’ Right? Because what’s happening is not only happening to Democrats,” O’Donnell told host Nicolle Wallace. “It’s happening to everyone. And when the Medicaid cuts go in, old people are going to start to die, to die.”

Before we go on to her therapist's comments, we need to address what she says here.

Just not true

As the Daily Caller pointed out in reporting on her comments, O'Donnell is wrong about the Medicaid cuts in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.

"Democrats framed the changes as an assault on the health care system, but they largely targeted a broadly exploited funding loophole and nonworking, able-bodied enrollees," the outlet corrected her after the fact.

But O'Donnell went on from there, saying, “What he’s done hasn’t even hit us yet. And if he’s not stopped now, we have lost our country. And I don’t know, Nicolle, how it is that some people cannot see it. My therapist said, ‘Why are you so upset?’ And I said to her, ‘Why are you not?'”

Clearly, O'Donnell is doing something that therapists term "catastrophizing," and it is very common among people with TDS. Furthermore, she lives in Ireland now, so why is she so focused on American politics?

All the comments about Trump being a "danger to democracy" fall under this umbrella of catastrophizing, which involves believing that the worst-case scenario is going to happen. It's very damaging psychologically because the worst-case scenario very rarely happens, but people react with the same fear, anger and resentment as they would if a catastrophe did happen.

"Maybe it is me"

Wallace seemed to agree with her comments, because pretty much everyone at MSNBC has TDS.

“I have that conversation too,” she said. “Because the gas lighting that I think you’re alluding to — if you’re a thoughtful, informed person, you do stop and say, ‘Well maybe it is me.'”

It is you, Nicole Wallace! And you, Rosie O'Donnell! Both of you and lots of others on the left have lost their collective minds over Trump.

Some are lying about what he is doing, and others are swallowing the lies hook, line and sinker.

It's actually really sad for the Democrats, who keep losing popularity while Trump gains it.

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