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We used to live in Los Angeles. I had flown back to visit friends and hang out for a few days. Several of us met at our favorite Mexican restaurant in Pasadena and were enjoying a perfect Southern California afternoon. After drinks arrived, I asked the guys what they thought about Trump. I asked out of pure curiosity, from total innocence, simply wondering what my friends of many years thought about this new political development. I anticipated the normal, logical, and rational conversation we had grown accustomed to. 

Kevin, an executive with a large entertainment company, blurted out, “Fu@k Trump!” I was like, “What?” Confused and surprised, I thought Kevin was kidding and so I asked again, “No, seriously. What do you think about Trump?” Again, the same response came with even more emotion, “Fu@k Trump!” Now I was really perplexed. I had no frame of reference for this kind of unhinged response. I glanced around the table looking for backup, but everyone was frozen in place. Quickly assessing the situation and observing Kevin’s reddening face and bulging veins, I changed my approach. I asked what three policies Trump was promoting that caused such a visceral response. I figured, OK, checkmate. I though he couldn’t possibly be so childish as to have an emotional outburst without proper thought going into it. Clearly, I was wrong. His response was the same. 

Trump had barely come down the escalator. It was in the early days of his candidacy, and I was simply making conversation. Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS hadn’t even been popularized yet. Nobody in media was freaking out. There were no protests on street corners. It was all just starting. I was fully unprepared for the events of that day, but it put me on a journey investigating this new cultural phenomenon of intense and irrational hatred aimed at Donald J. Trump. Kevin didn’t know Trump. It's not like Trump did something bad to him personally. Kevin had never met him. Yet, there he was, a grown man acting like a sullen and irrational child throwing a temper tantrum. It was bizarre to say the least. 

I was at a total loss at this new reality that sadly would be repeated hundreds of times. Over and over again, I encountered adults who would in every other way, be perfectly rational and logical, but when it came to Trump, an unhinged, primal element emerged. 

In the years since, I began writing about the topic because it fascinated me. In my adult life I have never experienced anything like it. I catalogued specific reasons for the hatred that I observed and wrote a chapter on each one. The more I observed, the more I wrote, eventually emerging as a three-volume work. There is just that much hatred out there! Volume one available now on Amazon.  

Chapter 1 - Man, they hate Trump!

Chapter 2 - They hate him because he used to be one of them.

Chapter 3 - They hate him because he ignored the narrative.

Chapter 4 - They hate him because he is brash.

Chapter 5 - They hate him because he called them Fake News.

Chapter 6 - They hate him because he is a businessman.

Chapter 7 - They hate him because he put America First.