The election of Donald Trump confronted patients and analysts with a shared trauma reminiscent of 9/11. Session after session, in the midst of our anguish, we were faced with patients who were emotionally flooded themselves, struggling in ways which sometimes complemented and sometimes threatened our own coping skills. There was simply no place to hide. In this paper, I utilize trauma theory to examine some of the clinical dynamics that ensued in the days following the election, as each member of the dyad’s trauma history, coping style and dissociative mechanisms created sometimes destabilizing enactments. I offer several clinical examples in which my tendency to cope through dissociation and withdrawal was threatened by—and threatening to—my most emotionally vulnerable patients. In such a fraught time, how does each member of the dyad profoundly impact the other?