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• The White House I worked for would have condemned this image. Trump refuses• Maga leaders want ‘traditional American families’ – but can’t stop having affairs• Sin City has lost its shine. It shows how far America has fallen• The Florida street that exposes America’s growing homophobia• Inside America’s most loyal Trump town – where people still think he’s ‘a good man’

“The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny,” Katie Miller, Maga influencer and wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, posted on social media in May, a month before giving birth to their fourth child, son Hawthorne.

“There is no greater blessing than motherhood. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who has just returned to work after giving birth to her second child in May, captioned a maternity photoshoot.