Trump’s shattered ‘mirror world’: American voters roundly reject president’s alternate reality

President claimed to have ushered in a ‘golden age’ even as prices soared and war dragged on – and midterm voters did not buy his looking-glass narrativeA new “golden age of America” is under way, Donald Trump repeatedly declared in his final pitch to voters before the US midterm elections.The war in Iran was not really a war, because “we’ve done very little fighting”, the US president stressed. The stock market had hit 88 all-time highs. “They’re saying,” he said, that on his watch the US has become “the hottest country anywhere in the world”. Continue reading...