Trump’s legacy: A divided America, unsettled world
MATT SPETALNICK, ANDREA SHALAL, JEFF MASON and STEVE HOLLAND 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. Trump didn't create the bitter differences that have come to define American life. Still, he seized upon many of them as tools to build…
