Four years of conflicts: State Governors and President Trump

Abstract

Abstract: Quattro anni di conflitti: Governatori statali e presidente Trump – The four years of Donald Trump's presidency have been characterised by a deep conflict between him and state governors, including Republicans. A situation that the covid pandemic has amplified but that had already emerged in other areas (from environmental to migration policies). In this sense, the aim of this contribution has been to retrace the main lines of direction within this confrontation, to highlight the most critical moments and to underline the progressive increase in the role that the Governors have assumed in the American federal system, all the more so when it comes to protecting and safeguarding the system itself against a very divisive President, and who has progressively no longer been fully recognised as such (all the more so after the events of 6 January on Capitol Hill).