Some Americans see a golden age dawning under Donald Trump, others fear their democracy is dying
US president Donald Trump will turn 79 this summer. He has never been more powerful. But his time is finite. Photograph: APDemocrats could take consolation from the thought that if he was on the golf course, then at least he couldn’t be signing executive orders.
Then came a question, from an unseen reporter, that hauntingly caught the mood of the opening month of the 47th administration: utter mystification and bafflement. For many among the slender majority of US voters who voted for Trump, the spectacular and expertly choreographed programme of sweeping, provocative change – the bureaucracy ransacked; the DEI culture obliterated; the mass lay-offs of federal workers; the threatened acquisition of Greenland and the casual insults and tariff threats towards Canada - are signs that the new golden age of American prosperity and strength is upon them.
What both sides share is a lack of certainty as to where all of this is going to leave the US. An odd moment happened during the Air Force One exchange. The big jet went through a spot of turbulence. The president grimaced and grabbed hold of the doorway. “That was a nasty bump,” he said, ever alert to his image in front of the camera. But it was a glimpse of ordinary human vulnerability; a flicker of a reminder Trump will turn 79 this summer.
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