I Have Trump Derangement Syndrome and So Should You

Peter McClard
4 min readJun 3, 2024
original art (not AI)

As an ex New Yorker, I know quite a bit about Donald Trump and frankly during my tenure there, he was pretty much of a tool and always an embarrassment but mostly simply to be ignored as an irrelevant piss ant preppy playboy poser uptown. You see, the Big Ass City that just convicted Donald chews people up and spits them out for breakfast. As E Jean Carol rightly noted upon seeing DJT in court, “He was nothing.” Others who had witnessed him in his last trial also noted how small he seemed. Not physically, but humanly, morally, spiritually tiny and insane, almost like a common derelict in NYC. Low energy too. Not entirely his fault. In New York, everyone is small. That very plain, musty, run down, non-gilded courtroom in lower Manhattan has seen it all over hundreds of years—the worst, the scariest, the toughest, the most corrupt, the exonerated, you name it. In this court there are no Presidents, just defendants, juries, lawyers, clerks and judges. Defendant Trump was no exception, now convicted criminal Trump with 34 unanimous guilty verdicts!

Normally I wouldn’t kick a man when he was down but this one man has kicked my country in the teeth for 8 years now. He’s done everything a real President would never do but worse, has convinced a certain type of gullible voter that we don’t need real Presidents anymore, we need the President from Idiocracy—a…

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Peter McClard

As a creative type, entrepreneur and philosopher, I write on many topics and try to offer solutions to, or useful insights into common problems.