Yale psychiatrist tells Joy Reid that it's fine to disown relatives who voted for Trump

A Yale psychiatrist told MSNBC host Joy Reid that it's fine to disown family members who voted for Trump.  

Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a child psychiatry fellow at the Ivy league school, made the comments during an interview on Reid's show The Reid Out Friday, while discussing coping strategies for people upset by Trump's election win. 

'There is a societal norm that if somebody is your family that they are entitled to your time and I think the answer is absolutely not,' Calhoun said.

'So if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends, who you know have voted in ways that are against you, against your livelihood, it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why.

'To say, "I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood and I'm not going to be around for this holiday. I have to take space for me.'

Reid had asked the psychiatrist for advise on how to interact with Trump supporters.

'If you are an LGBTQ person and you know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights, or you’re a woman knowing, you know, that this man was calling people the b word,' Reid said.

'JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris "the trash." He said, "We’re going to take out the trash."

'I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that.'

Calhoun previously made headlines last year when she doctors should be forced to wear body cameras to catch the racist ones.

'I have witnessed countless racist behaviors toward Black patients, often coupled with conscious and cruel statements,' Calhoun, who is black, wrote in a piece for the Boston Globe in 2023. 

'I have heard White nurses joke that young Black children will probably join gangs and doctors describe the natural hair of Black people as “wild” and “unkempt.”' 

Calhoun has spoken out before about being a black, female doctor and claimed she has received death threats over what some perceive as controversial statements. 

Meanwhile ultra-progressive Reid has been dealing with Trump's election live on air since the Republican's win last week.

Reid had a meltdown on air on Tuesday, calling the state of Florida 'fascist.'

After Florida was called for Trump early in the evening, Reid said: 'It's a pure Project 2025 in miniature in Florida.

'That extremist sort of right-wing, fascist type government in Florida, does that make it more of an attractive place?'

When Texas was called for the former president, Reid described black voters in Houston as 'deeply suppressed' and went on to blame 'white women' voters after North Carolina became the first swing state to plump for Trump.

She also suggested that an endorsement from actress and singer Queen Latifah should have helped power Harris to victory.  

Trump was elected the 47th president on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked violent riots at the US Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.

He won Michigan on Wednesday afternoon, sweeping the 'blue wall' along with Pennsylvania — the one-time Democrat-leaning, swing states that all went for Trump in 2016 before flipping to Biden in 2020.

Black voters — men and women — have been the bedrock of the Democratic Party, and in recent years, Latinos and young voters have joined them.

All three groups still preferred Democrat Kamala Harris. But Trump made significant in-roads. 

About 8 in 10 black voters backed Harris, down from the roughly 9 in 10 who backed Biden. More than half of Hispanic voters supported Harris, but that was down slightly from the roughly 6 in 10 who backed Biden in 2020.

Trump’s support among those groups appeared to rise slightly compared to 2020. Collectively, those small gains yielded an outsize outcome.