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 White House I worked for would have condemned this image. Trump refuses• Trump isn’t damaging America. He’s reinventing it• The US is becoming impossible to live in
In his second presidential term, Donald Trump is imposing a new kind of segregation. This time, however, there are no Jim Crow laws creating a second class of citizenship. Today’s divide is about money.
It’s apparent in the option to fly private or economy, attend public or private school, drink ceremonial-grade matcha or $2 coffee from a cart. It’s even apparent in access to beaches.
With the wealth divide becoming starker, the richest individuals in the US are steadily building their own America, in which access is limited to the privileged few.
