It’s a decade since Donald Trump announced his intention to run for President but it’s still no clearer what he stands for or why he does anything he does, says Eliot Wilson

Ten years ago today, property entrepreneur and reality television star Donald Trump descended a golden escalator in his palace of vulgarity, Trump Tower, and made a speech in which he announced that he would seek the Republican Party’s nomination for President. He had toyed with a Presidential bid before, potentially as a Reform Party candidate as well as a Republican, but the rest of the world took him less seriously than he took himself. When he made his declaration in 2015, Ladbrokes offered odds on his success of 150/1.

It seems like a lot more than 10 years ago. Since then we have seen Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, the global rise of Black Lives Matter, the end of coalition operations in Afghanistan, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the advance of the populist right in Europe, the Hamas attacks on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza and the fall of the Assad regime in........

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