Executive summary This report by the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the
Trump Era assesses the repercussions of President Donald Trump's health-related policies
and examines the failures and social schisms that enabled his election. Trump exploited low
and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise
racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income
people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion …