Un-American

Guardian UK: Donald Trump is the most un-American president in living memory - Where his predecessors reaffirmed US values, Trump has surrendered them with his words, thoughts and actions on immigration by Richard Wolffe

But in his own words, thoughts and actions, Trump is surely the most un-American president in living memory. It is no small irony that he wraps his un-American activities in the flag.

Where his predecessors saw it as part of their job to reaffirm the American idea, Trump has entirely surrendered this position. Even in the darkest days of the war on terror – with an administration that justified waterboarding and indefinite detention at Guantánamo Bay – former president George W Bush cast his worldview as fundamentally American: “Stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty,” he said in 2003.