Trump’s USA: Reality Show or Reinvention?

The world spins into chaos every few decades, but few spin as fast as the United States is currently doing under Donald Trump, the director of what was once the top reality show in the US, now the country’s president.

The death of George Floyd, an African American man who died with a police knee to his neck while begging for his life, lit a fuse that blew up into the burning and looting of Minneapolis and rallies around the country, some violent. Simmering anger over dozens of killings of blacks over the years boiled over, these days often caught on mobile phone videos, showing beatings and shootings of victims not capable of harm. Trump initially warned the protestors that lootings would lead to shootings, and threatened mayors and governors that if they did not take a tougher stance, “I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.”