President-elect says ‘USA is breaking down’ in bleak post seeming to wrongly pin two violent attacks on immigration

Even by Donald Trump’s standards, the message was darkly apocalyptic – evoking memories of the infamous “American carnage” image he conjured at his first inaugural address eight years ago.

“The USA is breaking down,” the president-elect intoned grimly in a message posted on his Truth Social platform at six minutes past midnight on 2 January.