16 March

The presidency is largely Trump watching FOX News in bed, while eating McDonalds and Tweeting. For Trump it’s like a new series of Celebrity Apprentice - “you’re fired!” - the country has become a reality TV show. But then America has often been led by its fantasies of film and TV, Ronnie Raygun was a movie star, and was adored. The old Wild West narratives still run deep too. A country without strong public institutions is inevitably led by populist fantasies, which it takes from TV and films.