The New York businessman’s anti-elite, anti-system, and anti-immigration discourse seduced a lot of white, less-educated voters in deindustrialized states. His campaign was characterized by an abundance of outrageous, even dishonest, claims. The United States has fully entered an era of “post-truth politics”.

Laurence Nardon is Researcher, head of Ifri's North America Program.

Article published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 82, No.1, Spring 2017.