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Trump's legacy: A more divided America, a more unsettled world
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2017. PHOTO | SAUL LOEB | AFP
When President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on January 20, 2017, he promised an end to “American carnage,” a bleak and dysfunctional nation he had promised that he alone could fix.
Closing out his presidency exactly four years later, Trump leaves behind an even more polarized America, where thousands are dying daily from the Covid-19 pandemic, the economy is badly damaged and political violence has surged.