Welcome to Trump’s America, The i Paper’s World Insight series presenting the sharpest, deepest thinking on an era-defining shift in history and politics, investigating how Donald Trump and his administration have changed the US and the world – and where we go from here.
• How America’s conspiracy theorists broke the US• The US is becoming impossible to live in• I told Trump over dinner he didn’t have my loyalty – it sealed my fate• This is how the world will look after Trump• Sin City has lost its shine. It shows how far America has fallen• The influencer who turned on Maga – claiming it has a dark secret• Inside America’s most loyal Trump town – where people still think he’s ‘a good man’
In 2023, I knew the odds were against me as I became a Republican candidate for President of the United States. Former President Donald Trump was running as well and he both motivated me to announce my candidacy – and made it near-impossible to win.
I was motivated because I could not support a candidate who refused to peacefully transfer power after the 2020 election loss. Trump’s failure in leadership during the January 6 attack on our Capitol reaffirmed to me that the GOP needed to go a different direction.
