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 heavy price America has paid for Jeff Bezos’s ambition• 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’
While America pondered how enthusiastically to celebrate its 250th birthday, in Springfield, Ohio, there were more immediately important events taking place.
If that city’s name rings a bell, that is due to President Donald Trump. His entirely false claim that Haitian immigrants were “eating the dogs and cats” became one of many appalling hallmarks of his successful 2024 campaign to return to the Oval Office.
Repeated on multiple occasions, not a single reporter dispatched to the city by any American news organisation was able to unearth any evidence to support the President’s accusation, which had originated from a hoax Facebook post.
