This is just getting weird

From Bibi Trump and Donald Netanyahu by Thomas L. Friedman. I fully understand that Friedman is no fan of either Trump or Netanyahu and that Trump's election in 2016 followed by Netanyahu's fourth reelection in 2019 have been profoundly frustrating to him.

But this is getting pretty weird.

There are two countries that I’ve been professionally, emotionally and intellectually involved with my entire journalism career — the United States and Israel. I’ve never been more worried about both, because President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are essentially the same person, and they pose the same threat to their respective nations.

They are both men utterly without shame, backed by parties utterly without spine, protected by big media outlets utterly without integrity.

Trump is protected by big media outlets???? That is news to me. And I suspect virtually everyone on both sides of the aisle.

While I may be caustic in my assessment of some (many) arguments, I do genuinely try and see how the other person would believe the argument they are making. There is no way that I can find a path that a mainstream media pundit working for one of the most profoundly anti-Trump (and anti-Netanyahu) outlets in a mainstream media sector which runs 90% negative commentary on Trump could genuinely make the argument that big media outlets are protecting both Trump and Netanyahu.

It is easy and fun to toss around the pejorative "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) but this sounds like an actual real sighting of TDS.