What makes people say 'I couldn't believe anything to be wronger than Trump" is that the proud mission statements of the past proclaimed the US to be the land of the free for the huddled and oppressed masses, welcomed as they poured in from their "shitty countries" to the place of equality and opportunity where what counted was not where you came from but where you were going and how hard you worked to get there. Not that it always completely lived up to those high ideals, but the ideal was there.
Trump is working hard to pull those ideals down into mediocrity and worse, to bring the US into line with the countries who practise all the things Maddy mentions, the nepotism, the lies, the corruption, the cynical use of political expedients for private gain and power, the rejection of the experience of the judiciary, the increase in dependence upon the military, the jettisoning of all the improvements in the living conditions and dignity of his citizens that his predecessors had slowly achieved.
It is the contrast between the image of "America the golden" and reality.
"For fairest things turn foulest by their deeds.
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds"
