The liberal resistance to Trump is already dead
In 2017, the left raged and organised – and lost. And there’s no room for losers in the new America.
ByDonald Trump
Donald John Trump, born in 1946, is president of the United States, after beating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. His previous term in office was from 2017 to 2021. His first presidency was marked by drama and controversy. Find our latest news and comment here.
The British public was wise to Labour’s deportation videos
Also this week: Rupert Murdoch charms the White House, while the Maga-sphere’s assaults on US media intensify.
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The myth of a noble America
The US’s lofty rhetoric has long been at odds with its sordid practice.
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Trump’s hostile takeover of religion
He has realised that the Almighty is the perfect marketing tool.
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Trump’s tariffs in numbers
Levies on the US’s biggest trading partners could mean average American incomes are hit by $400 a year.
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How to handle Trump’s tariffs
Britain is vulnerable – but there are reasons for cautious optimism.
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A trade war with China won’t help Trump
His tariffs could hurt Americans as much as the countries he is targeting.
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Donald Trump is planning ethnic cleansing in Gaza
This imperialistic “Riviera” project could have been dreamt up by the Israeli far right.
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The British media goes bendy bananas over Europe (again)
Also this week: Trump’s Pentagon press purge and a new mission for Toby Jones.
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The plot to asset-strip American government
Even the radical architects of Project 2025 didn’t propose what Elon Musk is doing to US democracy.
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Is Trump actually serious about tariffs?
The US president pushed Canada and Mexico to the edge of a trade war and pulled back at the last…
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Trump doesn’t need TikTok to win with Gen Z
Even before the election, the young US cohort was already shifting right.
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Donald Trump’s Florida project
How the Sunshine State, once America’s dead end, became its new seat of power.
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Trump’s America is a gangster’s paradise
He has stripped the country naked and revealed the ugly secret beneath our idealism: money and corruption.
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Will Donald Trump’s confidence trick work?
The US president’s self-belief cannot overcome the contradictions of his economic policies.
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The Nazis and us
The Holocaust continues to haunt our politics. But slurring our opponents as Hitlers is not the way to defeat them.
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Donald Trump’s gladiator politics
The president knows most of his executive orders will be challenged in court. He wants the fight.
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Donald Trump’s disaster capitalism
Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.
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Donald Trump can stay popular
There is goodwill for the president in the US, and it isn’t just because he’s not Joe Biden.
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Labour in the age of Trump
For Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the return of the Maga regime is a grave challenge.
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