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.
• America can’t afford to retire• 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’
For more than a decade, Republicans have told the American people that Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran was a historic mistake.
I should know. I was the Obama administration’s senior official at the State Department working with the US House of Representatives to get that deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – done.
Not a day went by when Republicans didn’t haul up administration officials to Congress to demand answers about the negotiations. I organised those briefings and hearings. We gave answers, but it was never good enough for the Republicans. They believed that they could do it better.
