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’
A UFC cage on the lawn of the White House to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States. It is so tacky that Aaron Sorkin, arguably one of Hollywood’s best screenwriters, couldn’t dream it if he tried. But that is the very real state of affairs under Donald Trump, the President who has single-handedly made America, well, decidedly uncool.
There was a time every girl around the world wanted to emulate “The Rachel”, Jennifer Aniston’s layered, shoulder-length bob haircut from Friends, and American exports from Steven Spielberg to Cindy Crawford and Michael Jackson to Muhammad Ali seemed like the coolest people on the planet. Name a millennial journalist who didn’t envy Carrie Bradshaw’s $4-per-word rate to write for Vogue and main character energy. I’d hazard we were all, at some point, captivated by the American dream.
