With his brows furrowed, jaw clenched and eyes glaring into the camera, Donald Trump became the first former US president to have his mugshot taken. Of course, Trump is no novice to making history — also being the first to face criminal charges not once, but in four cases.
American politics has always been, like the country itself, big and brash. But it now more closely resembles a travelling circus, with an ever more ridiculous cast of characters. Meanwhile, the rest of the world, particularly those treaty allies reliant on the US for their security, begin to wonder how dependable those guarantees really are.
