The social, economic, and political context of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency provides a fertile opportunity for the examination of the social and political life of shame in the United States. Trump’s transfer of the shame of poor and lower middle-class Whites to immigrants, refugees, and people of color was an ingredient in his ability to build a base of support to help engender his electoral success. Deserved shame is differentiated from undeserved shame. Confrontation with feelings of shame is necessary in working and living across normalized social, economic, and racial borders. Psychoanalytic contributions on the metabolization of deserved shame are needed at social, political, and psychological levels of organization. Psychological practitioners need to cultivate a willingness to work with their own deserved shame so that psychosocial accompaniment can become a more common form of practice.