The COVID-19 pandemic has been an event which has adversely affected people throughout the world. It has been asserted that in the United States, the extent of the devastation and disruption of life has been exacerbated by the response of the federal government, which was personified by former President Donald J. Trump. He was a leader whose unprecedented number of distortions, misleading statements, and frank lies resulted in a great erosion of trust in a time of great peril. Significantly, this propaganda was apparently believed by almost half of the electorate, as evidenced by the results of the 2020 election, where he lost to Joe Biden in a close race. As a result, there has been an intensification of a traumatically induced regression in the United States, characterized by increased divisiveness, dysfunction, and violence. This paper will psychoanalytically explore the author's contention that there has been a dual pandemic which has damaged the body and the mind—a highly contagious virus and a disinformation campaign gone viral.

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虚假信息、疾病和唐纳德·特朗普

COVID-19 大流行已成为对全世界人民产生不利影响的事件。有人断言，在美国，以前总统唐纳德·J·特朗普为代表的联邦政府的反应加剧了对生活的破坏和破坏的程度。他是一位领导者，他的空前数量的歪曲、误导性陈述和坦率的谎言导致在危险时期极大地削弱了信任。值得注意的是，几乎一半的选民显然相信了这种宣传，2020 年大选的结果证明了这一点，他在一场势均力敌的比赛中输给了乔·拜登。结果，在美国，创伤引起的倒退加剧，其特点是分裂、功能障碍和暴力加剧。