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.