In one US, he cuts a diminished, humbled figure. “He seems considerably older and he seems annoyed, resigned, maybe angry,” said broadcaster Rachel Maddow of MSNBC after seeing Donald Trump up close in court. “He seems like a man who is miserable to be here.”
But in the other US – that of Fox News, far-right podcasts and the Maga (Make America Great Again) base – the trial of the former president over a case involving a hush