‘Building for decades’

Even for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump’s departure won’t address.

It is “a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,” says one commentator in Poland’s conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.

“Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about ‘the best country in the world’ lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.”