In the space of one year, US President Donald Trump has signed hundreds of executive orders. He has ordered mass deportations, cut thousands of federal jobs, launched a trade war and withdrawn the US from major international institutions and agreements. How has his first year back in power been perceived at home? Are his Republican Party and his MAGA base still fully behind him? Our correspondent Matthieu Mabin reports.
In the capital Washington, thousands of people regularly denounce Trump's authoritarian tendencies: attacks on democracy, concentration of power and systematic polarisation of public debate.
But just three hours away, in the rural Pennsylvania that helped secure the US president's election victory, the outlook is radically different. For many people there, Trump remains the only person who has spoken to the forgotten America, the America of closed mines and relocated factories. His supporters herald him for his implementation of tariffs, for his attempts to bring about world peace and for just telling it like it is.
Our reporter went to meet these two Americas, which appear to no longer have anything in common with each other.
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