

David Reiss, a psychiatrist who contributed to the book " The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President," told Salon that although many of Trump's policies could be characterized as traumatizing, there were two areas which "crossed partisan boundaries."įirst, he pointed to Trump's intentionally divisive rhetoric ( policy-wise he was not that different from other recent Republican presidents) and noted that it has traumatized his supporters as well as his opponents. Several psychiatrists who spoke with Salon used the word "trauma" to describe the lingering impact the last four years have had on many Americans, particularly those from marginalized communities most at risk from Trump's rhetoric.ĭr. He was the first president to lack any previous political or military experience, one of only five presidents to win an election without the popular vote (and the first to also later get impeached) and the only president to reject an election loss outright in order to promote a Nazi-esque Big Lie.įor millions of Americans, the end of Trump's presidency came as a relief - but for some, the break from normalcy has lasted far longer than they anticipated. Donald Trump was an unprecedented president in many ways.
