How Trump has already taken us into full-on 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' territory

When we started the Dystopia Project two weeks ago, with the aim of writing a story on every dystopian novel that might apply to the Trump presidency, we figured it would be a while before we had reason to cover the heavyweight champ of the genre: Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell's 1949 classic is about a state that is totalitarian in the extreme. Trump, we thought, would at least start out appearing to be more like a regular president than a Big Brother type. This week the plan was to explore how he resembles a smooth-talking manipulator in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. But that was before Trump and his team spent their first weekend in power insisting that, when it came to crowd size, two plus two equals five.