Don Lemon recalls the "PTSD" of covering the Trump era: Never before "have I ever had to deal with the crap I've had to deal with the last four years"

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An emotional Lemon told CNN colleague Chris Cuomo how he was subjected to the N-word and the anti-gay F-word over the past four years. "I didn't expect to be overwhelmed" by Joe Biden's victory, Lemon said. “I didn’t realize the PTSD that many marginalized people, that African Americans, women, Latinos, people of color, white people — PTSD that people are feeling around this country because we have had whiplash from someone who only cares about himself and not uniting people. America needed a release valve at that moment. And they wanted to get it off their chests. It was like a third world country, people who have been oppressed. Finally, the relief came. That no longer did we have to live under this suppression. No longer did we have to live under people who are pretending that up is not up and down is not down, that one plus one doesn’t equal two. I can’t help but be emotional at this moment. I’m not quite sure what I’m going to say. So forgive me. I might not say all the right things tonight. I am very emotional. And guess what, I am speaking for everyone.”