Listen, I’m sure it’s true, too, this raging paranoia they all seem to be suffering from.
Now, I’m no shrink – I don’t even play one here at HotAir – but my professional cynical opinion, bolstered by years of detailed and exacting Scientific™ observation, have led me to conclude there are two possible explanations for the phenomena we are currently witnessing.
- A mass psychogenic illness manifestation (You didn’t think I knew that, did you? HAH!)
- A whole lot of shallow, insecure celebrities are worried they may NOT be important enough to cart off to The Detention Camps and are posturing to make everyone believe they are at serious risk of confinement.
This is where I am with this.
If you all think back, it started kind of quietly before the election. Suggestions that there were ‘going to be camps,’ and lists of Democratic icons – those vaunted ‘Defenders of Democracy’ – hauled off to God knows where before our very eyes.
Joy Reid insists that if Trump is elected, “there will be camps,” “there could be arrests of people like Adam Schiff,” and “there could be Nancy Pelosi being hauled off to jail.”
What is wrong with leftists? pic.twitter.com/OD0K3PZXZL
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) October 18, 2024
The harpies on The View were some of the first to float the idea that the Bad Orange Man was coming for them, especially the comedians among them.
As they haven’t been funny in years, okay. I can see them worrying.
ABC’s The View co-host Joy Behar fears that former President Donald Trump will put comedians like herself in jail if he is re-elected, with guest Wanda Sykes adding, “it could really happen.”
Joy Behar expressed her narcissistic fantasy on Thursday’s show, asking Wanda Sykes how she feels about the potential of Trump targeting comedians like them.
“Well, I mean, maybe we can share a cell,” Sykes joked. Behar didn’t appear to find the joke funny, glaring at Sykes before saying, “I don’t think so.”
Sykes added: “It’s ridiculous. I mean, it is. I know you’re making a joke about it, but it could really happen. He could. He wants to be a dictator.”
Kathy Griffin of the dripping Trump head fretted about her freedom, too.
…“He’s going to pick us off, one by one, like bowling pins, and I’m not kidding and I’m not being paranoid,” the 63-year-old Griffin recently said.
If he gets re-elected, he’ll go after Jimmy Kimmel, he’ll go after Jon Stewart, all the name ones, but he’ll go after Rosie O’Donnell. That’s all he’s going to do all day. He’ll have press conferences about it. He’s so much crazier than he was the first go-round.”
Rosie O’Donnell actually fled to Ireland to escape Trump’s clutches, but it’s been hard to do as he lives rent-free in her head.
So from the safety of the Emerald Isle, she’s been indulging in her wildest Trump fantasies and fever dreams uninhibited. She sits on the couch in her Irish safehouse and spews into Instagram.
Or, like the other day, cranky Rosie called into a sparsely attended, cringeworthy Jim Acosta town hall – himself a candidate for The Detention Camps, you know – and ranted away without any fear of her door being kicked in at three in the morning.
I’m late to this story but a few days ago Jim Acosta and the force ghost of Rosie O’Donnell hosted a 90 minute resistance orgy in front of a crowd generously described as three hobos and a squirrel and the videos are very much worth your time. https://t.co/9ISOSkfZMr
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) June 5, 2025
Only because O’Donnell had fled the United States was she safe to do so. Safe from Trump.
By the way, please take note – insisting that elections were stolen is now all good.
The fantasies of being a chosen target of Trump’s as he plots and wreaks his revenge on a large and ever-widening pool of ever-ready, willing, and supposedly terrified supplicants are reaching ridiculous proportions.
You can almost hear whoever is being interviewed chomping at the bit, straining to be asked that all-important question:
ARE YOU IN DANGER OF BEING CARTED OFF TO THE DETENTION CAMPS?
Invariably, the answer is a somber and reflective, ‘Why, yes. Yes, I AM.’
Even if you’re only ‘fairly prominent.’ You still must be afraid.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour compares traveling to the United States under Trump to visiting North Korea.
“I must say I was afraid. I’m a foreigner. I don’t have a green card. I’m not an American citizen.” https://t.co/uNC3h2E78v pic.twitter.com/ihPSipXDmL
— Zachary Leeman (@WritingLeeman) June 5, 2025
Imagine if you really thought you were ‘somebody.’
Like, for instance, George Clooney.
Clooney worries about Trump instead of the actual president and supposed ‘friend’ he shivved in the back like a thief in a dark alley.
George Clooney thinks everyone is worried about being targeted by President Trump:
Anderson Cooper: “Do you worry about, I mean, personally being targeted by the administration?”
Clooney: “Sure. Everybody worries about it.” pic.twitter.com/971WPPrRj3
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) June 5, 2025
These people need more therapy or to stay away from reporters for a while.
#ElectionNight: Hollywood reacts to Donald Trump’s win https://t.co/3laidRbvZe pic.twitter.com/vDNmGB2AwO
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 9, 2016
Oh, wait. That’s from his first term.
Neil Young is standing with Bruce Springsteen, telling Trump in a new statement: “I am not scared of you. Neither are the rest of us” → https://t.co/cE2eoGGmm2 pic.twitter.com/SRWCRMX4gG
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) May 20, 2025
Oh, Neil Young. Very nice.
YAWN
This one’s new, too.
Hollywood has #TrumpDerangementSyndrome. Actresses Rosie O’Donnell and Kyra Sedgwick spent this week trashing the President. While Broadway singer Patti Lupone wants to see the Kennedy center “blown up”. @NBSaphierMD says this is a “weaponization” of their platforms. pic.twitter.com/y63WCf4vSE
— The Big Weekend Show (@BigWeekendShow) June 1, 2025
That’s a big change from four years ago, no?
Come to think of it, maybe these pathetic freaks need both – the therapy and some time away from the cameras.
Maybe, like, a couple of weeks of summer camp?
