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’
As the long, hot summer gets underway in California, the first wildfires of the season are beginning to attract significant public attention. Within the last month, dozens of blazes have erupted, and in Los Angeles alone, more than 30 thousand people were forced from their homes when one fire struck hillsides north of the city.
Following last year’s Palisades Fire that killed 12 people, destroyed vast areas of Pacific Palisades and Malibu and erased more than 6,800 buildings from the landscape, the state is understandably on edge over what might follow in the months ahead.
