'Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America,' Reid wrote

Reid, having served since 1987, has 'never seen anything' like the present

Senator Harry Reid slammed Donald Trump on Tuesday, telling in a searing statement how the president-elect's victory has left those around him terrified.

Reid, 73, who has been a Nevada senator since 1987 and has held some form of public office since 1969, said the president situation resembled nothing he had ever seen before.

'White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump's victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear – especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans,' Reid, now the senate minority leader, wrote.

'Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.'

Senate minority leader Harry Reid (pictured) slammed President-elect Donald Trump in a searing statement Friday, saying Trump's victory has left those around him terrified

Reid, who endorsed Hillary Clinton in February, had at the time expressed dismay at Trump's success in the primaries. Trump had just won the Republican primary in Nevada, Reid's state.

'I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America,' Reid wrote in his statement Tuesday.

'I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics.'

Reid described Hispanic American families fearing their families would be 'torn apart', African American citizens being 'heckled on the street', Muslim Americans not daring to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples being harassed and too afraid to hold hands on the street, and American children 'waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away'.

Reid's statement came three days after Trump won the presidential election. He is pictured with President Barack Obama at the White House Thursday

Some young girls, Reid wrote, have been left 'unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president'.

Reid, a Democrat, ended his statement by urging Trump to 'roll back the tide of hate he unleashed'.

Parts of the country have plunged into chaos since Trump's victory.

Oregon on Thursday filed a petition for a ballot initiative enabling the state to secede from the United States.

California residents have topped the list of citizens looking up the word 'secession' on Google after Trump's victory.

A protest in Portland Thursday night became a riot and 25 were arrested. About 4,000 people had begun a peaceful protest but masked anarchists disrupted the event and among other things smashed store windows using baseball bats.

A reporter covering an anti-Trump protest in Oakland, California was left with a fractured cheekbone and abrasions Wednesday night after four men, whom he said were masked anarchists, assaulted him.

In North Carolina, a student at Elon University wrote 'Bye bye Latinos hasta la vista' on a classroom whiteboard Thursday.

A senior Al-Qaeda figure celebrated Trump's win on Twitter, calling it an 'important step' for the terror group.

Trump will officially become president on Inauguration Day on January 20, 2017.