Trump is presiding over the most reactionary US government in well over a century. From swingeing cuts to global aid to his plan to destroy total government departments, Trump's America is going to destroy the lives of millions of people around the world. Domestically he is just as brutal, violently evicting immigrants and throwing trans kids to the wolves. All of this alongside greater tax cuts and incentives to US corporations. While many of his policies are controversial, the capitalist class effectively backed Trump's return to the White House, as did the "opposition" Democrats who paved the way for it in the first place. The core of Trump's agenda - industrially re-equipping the US in the lead up to a war with China, and driving up the profits of US capitalists - is supported across the board (even if there are objections to how far some of the tariffs go). And although Trump's rule so far has been one of shock and awe, many of his proposals build on the existing brutality of US society ravaged by neoliberalism and endless attacks on workers. This session will look at Trump's presidency in the context of the last few decades of class war in the US.