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.

• The death of cool America – and the cringe that killed it• The US is becoming impossible to live in• I ran for president against Trump. When he fails, America will rise again• Maga leaders want ‘traditional American families’ – but can’t stop having affairs• 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’

Candace Owens – a Catholic Maga podcaster who has called her Jewish critics satanic, suggested Charlie Kirk was killed by Israel and claimed the First Lady of France was a man – was at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum last week, to extol Russia as a bastion of family values.

A delegation from the Taliban and one of Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian associates also attended, just as the Tate brothers, indicted in Romania and the UK for rape and human trafficking (allegations they deny), were mugging it up in Moscow.