The Independent has never been under any illusion about this American president. As our world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes, Donald Trump’s “infantile” folly in the Middle East has strengthened outlaw nations Russia and Iran, while “locking America into another forever war”.
The United States, and the world, survived Mr Trump’s first term in the White House in reasonable shape. Although he revels in his unpredictability, it was hard to imagine quite how perverse he would be in his second.
