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• Barack Obama is sick of being America’s saviour• 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’
In the 2016 US Presidential election, Rihanna Teixeira voted for Donald Trump because she had been told all of her life that Democrats were evil and supported murdering babies.
Raised in an evangelical home in Arizona, she was shown videos of “prophets” saying the President was being called by God to restore Christianity to America. But as the years went by Teixeira, 40, began to have doubts about the former real estate mogul.
White evangelical Christians have been vital for Trump’s presidential wins, backing him by margins of between 75 and 85 per cent in his presidential campaigns.
