Fox News Host Gets New TDS Diagnosis
for Derangement Caused by Texas Dem
Capitol Inside
July 2, 2026
A Fox News host was diagnosed on Friday with the first known case of a new mental malady that drives celebrities to the brink of madness when they get worked up about James Talarico as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas.
The state representative from Austin announced in a post on X this afternoon that Fox News' Emily Compagno had "Talarico Derangement Syndrome" after she issued a frantic warning that the Texas Democrat is a "demon in human skin" who must be stopped before he ever gets to Washington D.C.
“Every single voter needs to understand exactly who they would vote into office, which is an anti-business, anti-commerce, anti-capitalist, anti-Texas Texan,” Campagno said during a discussion with co-hosts on the show Outnumbered.
“So if they know what is good for them, it’s to permeate that messaging deep into the red state of Texas so that they know - oh it’s not just some Democrat,” Campagno contended. “This person is a demon in human skin and they need to make sure he does not go anywhere - to the nation’s capital - where he can actually do some real damage other than his horrible words that he keeps spewing."
Campagno appeared provoked by Talarico's characterization of the American as a "complicated" symbol in a nation that's historically divided. Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton and his allies have sought to portray Talarico as a radical vegan socialist who's grooming children to be transgender while pitching mutilation surgery for them to their parents. The caricature is a composite of statements that Talarico made early his career as a lawmaker when he was speaking to liberal groups in his hometown that's the state's most progressive city without rival.
The Republicans have claimed that Talarico hates Christianity based on a literal interpretation of comments from the past without the context of the points he was trying to make. But Talarico's detractors haven't tried to explain why someone who despises the Christian religion would decide to attend the seminary so he could become a Protestant preacher in a Presbyterian church. Talarico was trying to say that he's no fan of Christian nationalists who sees as polar opposites from Jesus Christ.
As Paxton vacationed in Europe on the eve of America's 250th birthday while his campaign touted comments that he's made at a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference last week, Talarico responded to the breathless Campagno rant by giving President Donald Trump a dose of his own medicine.
Trump put up a video on Thursday that he'd made with AI that featured him as a medical doctor who shared testimonials from famous entertainers who he claimed to have treated for Trump Derangement Syndrome - which he often refers to TDS. Trump was dressed in a physician's smock with a stethoscope - and he referred to himself as Doctor Trump while claiming to have discovered a cure for TDS.
The president's artificial intelligence video had an all-star cast of Trump TDS patients who are actors in movies and television including Rosie O'Donnell, Robert De Niro, Julia Roberts, John Leguizamo and Edward Norton. The images that look exactly like the stars they portend to be all admit to being in bad shape from the suffering they had to endure before discovering Dr. Trump's special treatments.
Trump says he wasn't sure if he could help the patients that have come to him with TDS because they were so far gone when the treatments began. The video is pretty funny for an amateur production - and it raised the specter that the president has more free time to try to kill than the men who held the job before him.
Thanks substantially to Campagno, Talarico has an convenient way to dismiss the more outlandish criticism that's dished his way. As the nominee for a party in a state where the Democrats haven't won statewide in 32 years, all publicity for the Democrat is good at this point, regardless of whether it's believable or not.
Campagno is a former criminal defense lawyer who served as the captain of the Oakland Raiders cheerleaders. She signed on with Fox News in 2018 to work as a legal analyst. She hosted a Fox News show about true crimes and tackled the subject in a podcast on Fox News Radio. Campagno has been a co-host on Outnumbered for the past five years.
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