Trump supporters crammed at a window to get a glimpse of him, at a rally at Stephen Decatur high school in Maryland in early 2016. Still a political curiosity, drawing a few hundred people to his rallies, it was at Decatur that he pointed to the press box and called them the ‘enemy’. The rally was followed by a parade of Confederate flags and police dogs

A veteran pauses to reflect at the 2016 Republican national convention in Cleveland. His shirt refers to then secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s role in the Benghazi attacks in which four Americans were killed in supposed security lapses. Some Trump supporting veterans believe that Clinton herself was responsible for the security lapses

An anti-Trump protester holds up a ‘This is Hell’ sign during a march for George Floyd in 2020

A Trump supporter sports an AK-47 tie-clip at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2018. The conference represents a distilled conservative culture serving up rightwing kitsch such as children’s books, shirts, gun-shaped mugs and tie clips, to show support for the second amendment, giving citizens the right to bear arms

A Trump supporter at a rally

A supporter of Trump waves the flag of South Carolina during the insurrection on 6 January 2021, seen through the so-called Gadsden flag, which features the words ‘Don’t tread on me’, used in the American Revolution by the rebels. These flags were present inside and outside the Capitol during the riot

An anti-Trump protester yells at Trump supporters at a rally in Washington DC in 2020

A lone Trump supporter wrapped in the US flag and holding a gun stands before barricades at Trump’s inauguration in 2016

Riot police prepare to rush protesters after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Trump promised to declare martial law and use the military to quell the protests arising from Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police

Trump himself is unseen in the book, but his presence is implicit in every shot