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December 4, 2025 15 mins
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has announced plans to visit New York City, though it remains unclear whether he will meet with Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. The ongoing debate around “Trump Derangement Syndrome” taking over anti-Trumpers’ minds is being highlighted deeper and deeper as the weeks go on. Manhattan psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert is reportedly receiving death threats for speaking out on the topic.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone show on wo R.
Where was that? Uh, Jimmy Faylea, we will be with
us a little later this hour. Lots to talk to
him about. We'll get to Trump, derangement syndrome and more.
Net Yahoo says he will come to New York City.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who mom Donnie has threatened to arrest, says

(00:23):
he will absolutely come to New York City. Uh will
he meet with mom Donnie? He said, only if mom
Donnie acknowledges Israel's right to exist. Well, all right, that's
a good h that's a good point. If Ma'm donnie
will acknowledge Israel's right to exist, he will meet with

(00:44):
him now when he comes to New York if Mom
Donnie has said he will arrest him. But we're starting
to notice that Mam Donnie says a lot of things.
But it's just a charming campaign rhetoric to his wacko crowd. Uh,
but he doesn't really fund up on him. He met
with Trump. That was quite a friendly meeting. In fact,
Mamdanni revealed this week that he continues to talk to Trump.

(01:08):
They've continued the relationship. They talk on the phone, he's
called Trump a few times. Mam Donnie has been called
by Trump also after the National Guard shooting. Mam Donnie
said he called Trump to express his sympathy. So they
they've become friends. So that's a good sign. Maybe Trump
can help keep this guy in line. And maybe a

(01:28):
lot of that crazy wacko campaign stuff was just a
lot of Democrats. They run like that. They just tell
this ground whatever the hell they want to hear, and
then they don't do it. But we'll see if Netanya
Who does come to New York, there's no he has
nothing to fear about being arrested no matter what Mam
Donnie does. Trump has said he will protect him with
federal troops, law enforcement, FBI, federal agents, whatever he has

(01:53):
to do. They will be with Netanya Who the whole
time to make sure he is not arrested. A great attorney,
Alan dersh Schwitz has said he will be with every
second of his visit. In case he needs a lawyer,
he'll be right there to take care of him. Hey,
if you take the subway, there's no more Metro cards.
December thirty first, that's the last day of Metro cards,

(02:17):
those yellow cards. I think I still have one or
two somewhere with some money on him. I better go
use him. But the Metro cards disappear final days December thirty. First,
you have to use the Omni card, which is strictly digital.
I did go on the subway the other day and
he just held me. If you just hold your phone
up to the turnstile, it works. I'm looking at my wallet,

(02:38):
my digital wallet. But what does that mean? Did I
download the Omni card at some point? I must have.
I don't remember doing that. I don't you know what.
I don't think you have to. I think if you
have Apple Pay, it also takes Apple Pay, because I
know I don't remember ever downloading an Omni card. You
just if you have Apple Pay in your cell phone,
just hold it up to the turnstyle. It'll let you

(02:59):
write in. It will charge you, but it will let
you right in. So there's no more Metro card. This
is going to confuse a lot of people that are older,
people that aren't tech savvy. Now, it should also save
the MTA a lot of money. Those cards, I imagine
costs a lot of money to print up those cards,
and you have to have the big machines that dispense them.
There's usually two or three in every subway station, so

(03:21):
you get rid of all of that, and that's a
big savings, a lot of cost savings. Waiting to see
if that gets passed down to the subway consumer, I
wouldn't count on it. So there's gonna be if you're
down there in the subway, there's gonna be some old
people who don't know how to hell to get on
the subway. They don't know what an omni card is.

(03:42):
They got a flip phone, they can't download anything. So
you just try to help them. If you're down there,
there's some people that just just don't keep up with
the text. You know. I was talking to a friend
of mine in Florida, one of these guys that moved
to Miami, and he said, you know, I talked to
a lot of people down here. They listen to your

(04:03):
show every morning here in Miami, a lot of people.
And then he says, I can't get it on the radio.
I said, no, you're like three thousand miles or you
have to listen online or on the phone. And he said,
a how do you do that? And I'm trying to
explain it to him, and I'm trying to explain to
him the I just download the iHeart app on your phone.

(04:24):
You can listen to wor you can listen to every
station in the country. You can listen to everything on
the iHeart app. Well, he doesn't know how to do that.
And he said, by the way, this is a major
CEO of a big company. You'd know. But some people
just can't figure this stuff out. I actually know one woman,
very successful woman, who said to me, I didn't know this.

(04:47):
She was, I don't have a cell phone. I never
had a cell phone. No, you don't have a cell phone. No,
well how do you? She said, I don't need one.
But I was trying to explain to her. As a landline,
it's not long before they take away your landline. You know,
Verizon has already pretty much done that. If you had
an old fashioned Verizon landline, they're gone. Once they die,

(05:10):
that's it. They won't fix them in every phone company's
going to there's gonna be no landlines in a couple
of years. So if you're one of the few people
without a cell phone, you better get one and start
learning how to use it. Do you ever read Drudge anymore?
That used to be the biggest website in the world
for news. Now, I go to Drudge and I love

(05:31):
the guy who's a friend of mine for years. I
haven't talked to him in a while, but I go
to Drudge Now. This site is completely nuts. It's completely insane.
It's to the left of MSNBC. It's absolutely crazy. You
see these headlines. They're the most awful anti Trump headlines
in the world. Yeah, I don't want to read some

(05:56):
of these. They're so outlandish, and he's posting things from
the the worst lowest people on earth. They're not even
close to being legitimate. I mean, Michael Wolfe, Mary Trump,
those kind of lunatics. Hey, you know who I really like,
Lucy Arnez. Lucy Arnez is the daughter of Lucille Ball.
Lucy Arnez a very nice woman, a very talented Broadway star,

(06:19):
TV star, and I love reading her Facebook page because
she talks about politics. And it's not just her. There's
a lot of people out there in Hollywood, great people.
You'd love spending time with him. They're fun, but when
they start posting about politics, they are completely deranged. They
are totally insane. So she's a very nice woman. Lives

(06:40):
in Palm Springs. Puts up pictures of fun things. But
then every you know, fifth post is political. Here's one
from yesterday. This is a long essay she puts up there.
Trump is an instrument of this country's dark side. He
thinks he can do better than democracy. This group of

(07:00):
individuals is resculpting America to suit their vision, their greed,
their need for control. They think they know how to
run us better than laws and courts. They distrust higher learning.
Trump's the Ivy League graduate. He sent all his kids
to Ivy League schools. They distrust higher learning. They don't

(07:23):
want equality. It's a group effort to dumb down and
christianize the country to their backwards beliefs. Corporations will be
in charge. A handful of multimillionaires will run this great
country as if it were a corporation. They truly believe
this will work better. This is happening right now as

(07:43):
we eat our leftovers. But if you look at her Facebook,
she live in a mansion of Palm Springs. Mix in
the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, you'll get a
clearer picture of what's going on right under our noses.
Trump is a pawn. They need an idiot to puppet.
The bigger the fool, the bigger the ego. This is

(08:04):
more serious than just putin. We cannot solve this or
fight it until we truly understand it. Now, again, she's
a very nice woman. Talk to her about anything. She
sounds very smart. Talked to her about politics and not
just her, it's all these people talked to her about politics.
She sounds like a deranged lunatic. Now, this is what
they call Trump derangement syndrome. It's an actual thing. It's

(08:31):
well here Now, Wikipedia is very slanted left wing. Wikipedia
says Trump derangement syndrome. It's a pejorative used to describe
negative reactions to Trump. It's used to dismiss criticism of Trump. Well, no,
not really. It's an actual thing. Just this Lucy Arnetz

(08:52):
thing I just read you. This is Trump derangement syndrome.
This is not normal. It's if you don't like Trump,
that's fine. If a guy said I I don't like him.
I don't like the way he talks. He's too crude
for me. Why does he have to insult people? Okay,
I can get that, but he's not tearing down democracy
threat to the world. That's Trump derangement syndrome. So there's

(09:13):
a great psychologist, Jonathan Albert, who wrote a piece for
the Wall Street Journal. They got a big psychiatrist, a
top psychiatrists, could you write about this Trump derangement syndrome.
So he wrote a column explaining it that it's an
obsessive political preoccupation. It resembles an obsessive compulsive pattern in

(09:37):
which one political figure becomes the center of intrusive thoughts.
It creates heightened arousal compulsive monitoring that takes over a
person's mental band with We goes on to explain it
in psychological terms, how it's a real thing, this Trump
derangement syndrome. So this guy writes the column and then

(09:58):
a lot of TV shows have him on to talk
about it, and he's on TV a lot. Well, now
he's getting death threats left and right. He's getting death
threats all over the place. So now he writes another
column saying, they just proved it's true that there is
a Trump derangement syndrome. You know, if you don't like
my column and you're going to write me a nasty letter, fine,
But he's getting death threats so he said, in trying

(10:20):
to disprove the phenomenon, these people have demonstrated it dramatically.
The way they're all behaving is absolute proof, scientific proof
that there is such a thing as Trump derangement syndrome.
As they're all trying to have the guy kill their assassinated.
So it's a real thing, this Trump derangement syndrome. And

(10:42):
you got to remember when you with your friend who's
a left wing coop Trump hater, don't get mad. Just
don't talk to him about it. Just change the subject.
It's a symptom, it's an actual mental illness they have.
Just don't even engage with them. I'll tell you how
bad it is. You know, they're yelling and screaming about
the ballroom, Trump rebuilding parts of the White House. Well,

(11:04):
across the street from the White House is the Eisenhower
Executive Office Building, And if you've seen it lately, it's
kind of bad looking. The White House is white and
all the buildings are white, but this building is dark gray,
and it turns out it's the same kind of white
limestone or whatever it is that the White House is.
It just got really dark and dirty over the years.

(11:27):
So Trump is the expert on this stuff. And he
looks across the street and he says, you got a
powerwash that you know, you've seen this happen every now
and then they powerwash a building and then the outside
the stone comes back to the gleaming white or whatever
it was light gray when it was first built, instead
of the dark, dirty looking gray. So he told them

(11:48):
the powerwash the building. It's a nice thing to do.
Every building should do it. The building's one hundred and
thirty seven years old. It's government. You know, they don't
take care of things. So Trump said, you know, you
got to powerwash that building. They're about to start. The
crazy left wing cooks, the leftists Trump derangement syndrome started

(12:09):
yelling and screaming, how dairy powerwash the eyesen our office building.
They went to court, the swamp went to court. They
found a DC left wing judge who had to put
up block a restraining order. They're not allowed to powerwash
the building. Trump team was forced to agree not to
take any steps to beautify the building for the rest

(12:31):
of the year while the court proceedings continue. It's just
dirt and grime, you gotta wash it off the building.
But the left wing went to court block this. I mean,
this is absolutely insane. This is Trump derangement syndrome. They'll
fight this legally in court till they can get permission
to clean the side of the building so it's not

(12:52):
so gray and dirty and ugly anymore. Unbelievable. I mean,
they're just nuts, these people. Anybody remember the comedian Jackie Vernon.
This is way before our time. I mean, this is
like you remember him. He was kind of big, heavy
guy and he talked looked us, and he talked in monotone,
and he was he was in a lot of so

(13:12):
he's on the Tonight show Ed Sullivan, the Dean Martin Show,
the famous comedian back then. It's the quiet that was
his whole routine. That he was a quiet, nerdy monotones
and apparently as a son who's just revealed he's all
a lot of people know him. He's the voice of
a Frosty the Snowman, of course, from the nineteen sixty

(13:33):
nine classic Frosty the Snowman. Everybody knows the voice. So
his son, David Vernon revealed this dull guy that was
his whole act. By the way, about how dull he was,
he come out and do jokes about how Dolly was.
Turns out the guy was a hell of a womanizer.
The guy had three separate families. The main family finds
out about these other kids they didn't know about. The

(13:54):
guy was like a multi not a big a mister.
What do you call this, a trigger mister or whatever.
He had a multiple live, multiple families, all sorts of
children nobody knew about. So so hey, you can never
judge a book by its cover. Hey, Jack Smith, the
disgusting weirdo Bizarro prosecutor, the bug eyed guy with the cape.

(14:15):
He has been subpoenaed house. The Republicans want to grill him.
He's the one that did the disgusting, awful, you know
raid on mar A Lago with their guns drawn. They
got the shoot to kill order if they needed it. Seriously,
Biden gave him the okay to use deadly force the Turk.
It a war crime. Biden gave him the okay to
use deadly force in mar A Lago where all the

(14:38):
old ladies are having dinner. And they didn't just go
and looking for documents. It was the most disgusting raid.
They went through Baron's room, They went through Malania's closets.
They looked in her underwear drawer like poly walnuts going
through Adrian's underwear and it was absolutely disgusting. But he's
going to be asked about all of this. Jack Smith

(14:58):
will have to testify. He's been subpoena. Jack Smith says,
I look forward to meeting with the committees to discuss
my work and clarify the various misconceptions. I think this
is going to very badly for him. It's not going
to go well for him. Hey, we'll take a break
and then we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten is the number. Give me
a call. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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