(FILES) Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on September 13, 2024. For Donald Trump patriotism is chief among virtues, yet his love of country is tempered by an apocalyptic vision of a nation plundered by criminal migrants, beset by rampant inflation and brought low by the forces of liberalism. "We are a nation in decline," he declares with metronomic regularity as he vies to lead a country experiencing plunging crime and an economic boom, having led the world in the recovery from the pandemic. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)