{"id":69405,"date":"2026-03-19T05:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/fetterman-says-democrats-lack-leader-claims-party-driven-by-trump-derangement-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:58:09","slug":"fetterman-says-democrats-lack-leader-claims-party-driven-by-trump-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/fetterman-says-democrats-lack-leader-claims-party-driven-by-trump-derangement-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman says Democrats lack leader, claims party driven by Trump Derangement Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/john-fetterman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Fetterman<\/a> of Pennsylvania said during an appearance on the &#8220;All-In Podcast&#8221; that the Democratic Party does not have a leader, but then opined that &#8220;TDS&#8221; controls the party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TDS&#8221; is an abbreviation for Trump Derangement Syndrome, a term often used by Trump supporters to describe strong opposition to the former president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who do you think leads the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a> today?&#8221; David Friedberg asked the lawmaker during the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman said, &#8220;we don&#8217;t have one,&#8221; but added that he believes &#8220;TDS&#8221; is &#8220;the leader right now,&#8221; saying &#8220;our party is governed by TDS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fetterman-condemns-democrats-refusing-put-country-over-party-iran-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FETTERMAN CONDEMNS DEMOCRATS FOR REFUSING TO PUT \u2018COUNTRY OVER PARTY\u2019 ON IRAN STRIKES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The senator highlighted his strong support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/defense\/wars\/war-with-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Epic Fury<\/a>, the U.S. attack against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman said that he is &#8220;literally the only Democrat in America, uh, in Congress, that I&#8217;ve come across that&#8217;s saying, I think it&#8217;s a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime. I think it&#8217;s entirely appropriate to hold them accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/hannity-tells-fetterman-i-had-you-all-wrong-candid-public-apology-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HANNITY TELLS SEN FETTERMAN \u2018I HAD YOU ALL WRONG\u2019 IN CANDID APOLOGY ON NEW PODCAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later during the podcast, Fetterman brought the issue up again, saying, &#8220;You asked me earlier, what&#8217;s the leader of the Democratic Party right now. I would say it&#8217;s TDS.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The senator suggested that Trump &#8220;could come out for ice cream and lazy Sundays and now, suddenly, Democrats would hate it. We would wanna vote it down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has consistently remained an ardent supporter of Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fetterman-opens-up-about-near-death-experience-he-says-changed-his-approach-politics-new-hannity-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FETTERMAN OPENS UP ABOUT NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE AND HOW IT CHANGED HIS APPROACH TO POLITICS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Democrat, I\u2019m deeply proud to stand with Israel through the horror of 10\/07,&#8221; he declared in a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenFettermanPA\/status\/2034031140990816399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a> on X. &#8220;I\u2019m deeply proud of our military and what they\u2019ve accomplished in Epic Fury. Picking country over party is never wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said during an appearance on the &#8220;All-In Podcast&#8221; that the Democratic Party does not have a leader, but then opined that &#8220;TDS&#8221; controls the party. &#8220;TDS&#8221; is an abbreviation for Trump Derangement Syndrome, a term often used by Trump supporters to describe strong opposition to the former president. &#8220;Who &#8230; <a title=\"Fetterman says Democrats lack leader, claims party driven by Trump Derangement Syndrome\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/fetterman-says-democrats-lack-leader-claims-party-driven-by-trump-derangement-syndrome\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fetterman says Democrats lack leader, claims party driven by Trump Derangement Syndrome\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}