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• The Golden State is being left to burn – because it voted Democrat• Maga is not just divided over Trump. Now it’s split on Putin
Minneapolis is a city of memorials. On Nicollet Avenue, flowers and picket signs line the fences marking where Alex Pretti – an intensive care nurse and proud trade unionist – was gunned down by border patrol agents in January.
Just weeks before, Donald Trump’s paramilitary-style Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) forces had killed Renee Good – a 37-year-old mother of three who was monitoring their activity as a legal observer. And five years earlier, police in the city had unlawfully killed George Floyd, sparking protests around the world. Flowers, banners and messages of solidarity bear witness to their murders.
