The examples of the irony found in the current administration in Washington are numerous, egregious, and ever-expanding.

The list of transgressions is too long to elaborate so I’ll do my best to prioritize by starting at the top. I find the invocation of Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, the most galling example of irony. With this pejorative term, the president’s supporters and sycophants disparage those of us who find constant fault not only in Mr. Trump’s policies, but in his personal behavior.

The irony is found in the fact that anyone who defends his abhorrent behavior, as his minions constantly do, are the truly deranged ones — not us! 

Let’s continue. There are the excuses for his mocking a disabled reporter, the Billy Bush sexual comments tape, the Epstein files, and now the war with Iran (remember the No More War candidate?).  

Finding anything positive in any of those scenarios takes a deliberate kind of ignorance to the point of, yes, derangement. Some will say that my language here is incendiary and divisive. But there seems to be no other explanation, unless it’s the type of behavior you accept in your own life. I do not.

I could go on. But not because I want to. I have to! 

I’d rather be writing about the imminent return of baseball, barbecues, and the other rites of spring. And I’ve tried. 

However, I simply cannot look away from the damage being done by a man who has vowed to “Make America Great Again.” Yet for a majority of Americans, he is doing the opposite: making us weaker, crueler, and uglier, and making our lives more expensive (another broken promise). 

This is the very height of irony! The real “derangement” here belongs to the people who simply refuse to see the obvious signs that right now in this country we are being run by a megalomaniac supported by his cadre of ill-informed, underqualified mafiosi who form the most incompetent Cabinet in American history.

Unfortunately, this column will not change the minds of those determined to support an obviously diminished president (by the way, more irony here – think of what he and his minions say about former President Biden). 

But I will not remain silent while we are in danger of losing the very principles that really make America great. 

Now, that would be deranged. 

Frank LoBuono is a Nyack resident, photographer, blogger and retired CBS News journalist.

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