American carnage revisited as Trump plays president of permanent emergency

The president declined at Fort Bragg to hum a tune of virtue and valor - instead it was a tour of his darkest horizons LA protests - live updates Donald Trump was hundreds of miles away from the White House on Tuesday, visiting one the country's most venerable military bases, Fort Bragg in North Carolina, partly to big-up Saturday's forthcoming celebration of America's armed might in Washington - a parade spectacular ostensibly held in honor of the US armed forces' birthday. But also his own. Wi...