James Carville, a Democratic strategist and DC insider famous for leading Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, said on the Monday episode of his “James Carville Explains…” podcast that he is happy to be diagnosed with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“I got Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Carville explained. “I hate the motherf—–. And you know what? I don’t want to get rid of it. I don’t want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more.”
He continued, “I pray to God in heaven, God, reign the righteous reign of Trump Derangement Syndrome on me. Pray for me, Lord. I’m your vessel on this earth. Pray for the people that listen to this. We want more. We want to hate the son of a b—- so much that we can’t see straight.”
He argued that all of President Donald Trump’s critics should “pray together” and work together to end Trump’s presidency.
“So we’ve prayed together tonight,” Carville argued. “We will pray together more. But the one thing we’re not gonna do, we’re not gonna f—— back off. Not any time ever. We are not gonna back off.”
He later continued, “And you fat s— Trump, you understand that. You understand how many f—ing people in this country agree with me and are praying to have the strength to even hate you more than they hate you now. And I know you think you can’t, but I’m telling you, if you work hard enough at it, you can hate him even more.”
In response to Carville’s statement, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said that Carville “is a stone-cold loser who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
Carville has repeatedly called for the end to Trump’s presidency. In February, Carville argued that the scandal involving Trump’s link to the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old in the 1980s must persist in the news.
"It's never gonna go away, and if you think about it, it can't go away," Carville told Al Hunt on their Politicon podcast at the time.
Also in February, Carville argued that Trump’s attempts to build a ballroom and rename the Kennedy Center will never make people love him.
“You can knock down the East Wing. You can s — — all over the Kennedy Center. It is not gonna do any good, because the country hates you,” Carville said. “They literally cannot stand you.”
He later concluded, “We’re not just gonna win, people. We’re gonna win in ways that you can’t imagine. And not only are we gonna win, we’re gonna watch these sorry, slimy people in an effort to try to save themselves — disgrace themselves, disgrace their families, disgrace their children, their grandchildren, their great grandchildren and everything else.”
In January, Carville said that people who worked for Trump and Trump himself must be “humiliated” to both set an important precedent and redeem America’s standing in the eyes of the world.
"I think the world wants to return, with the United States as being part of the world," Carville argued. "And I think the way that that happens is Trump has to be humiliated."
He added, "He has to be electorally humiliated, and I think there's a good, good chance that's gonna happen this November in our elections. It's not enough that he just walk away, and the Democrats take over the presidency."
In July, Carville also urged Democrats to focus on the bread-and-butter issues in which Trump has hurt ordinary Americans.
"We demand a repeal to protect Medicaid," Carville said. "Trump’s law will slash roughly $1.1 trillion from health care programs, stripping coverage from an estimated 11.8 million people over the next decade. This will lead to a shuttering of rural hospitals and facilities, leaving people in red and purple states without vital health care. A vast majority of the public support Medicaid. This is a unifying issue. We demand a repeal."
