Jim Acosta says journalists dealing with 'post-Trump stress disorder'

Published April 4, 2021 4:41pm ET



CNN’s Jim Acosta said reporters are experiencing “post-Trump stress disorder” following the former president’s exodus from the White House.

“When you’re asking me if I was run down, I thought you were referring to how I felt during the Trump era,” Acosta told CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter when he was asked about how he was feeling so far in President Joe Biden’s term. “I think we’re all dealing with some post-Trump stress disorder, other than that ‘Happy Easter’ he was saying in those statements a few days ago.”

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