A year ago, no one took Donald Trump seriously. He was called a "jester" and a "clown." In Russian political journalism, it was fashionable to compare him with Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Meanwhile, Donald Trump turned out to be a classic “black swan”. A “black swan” is an event that is unexpected for the observer, has significant consequences, but can be easily explained, so it is not clear why no one could predict it after all. Russian writer and political scientist Kirill Benediktov in his new book explains both the pattern of Donald Trump’s appearance on the stage of the US political theater and the reasons why the American establishment overlooked the rise of this “black swan” of the White House. Will Big Donald return the American dream to Americans? Will America become great again? How will US relations develop? and Russia, if President Trump sits in the Oval Office? All the ins and outs of the future US president are in one book...