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• I’ve seen what ICE has done to Minnesota. Farage wants to import that to the UK• The men who want to stop women voting• Trump isn’t damaging America. He’s reinventing it
You know the look. You can’t miss it. The big lips, taut cheeks, heavy brows, dark lashes, hair extensions, flashing teeth and lashings of make-up announce at 100 paces the arrival of a would-be friend and intimate of Donald Trump – a pneumatic, loud and proud Maga woman.
“Mar-a-Lago face” was ridiculed at first, just like Trump’s bouffant hair. But now it’s become a defiant way for women to flaunt their wealth, status and access to power on their face, the most visible part of their anatomy.
Dr Shervin Naderi, a plastic surgeon who caters to Washington society, describes the look as “a modern aristocratic mask – surgically sculpted to convey affluence, precision and control”. He tells me the discomfort and artificiality is the point.
