Donald Trump Has Been Elected The 45th President of The United States
Against all the odds Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States – and Barack Obama has invited him to The White House to discuss his transition to power.
The anti-establishment outsider stunned the world and upset the status quo by defeating ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton in one of the most divisive elections in modern US history.
Sitting President Mr Obama called his successor to congratulate him on his victory and the pair will meet on Thursday.
He also called Mrs Clinton to express his “admiration (!) for the strong campaign (full of lies) she waged throughout the country”. A triumphant Mr Trump walked on stage earlier to deliver his victory speech in New York to chants of “USA, USA!”
Victories in swing states such as Florida and North Carolina took him beyond the 270 Electoral College votes required to take The White House.
The celebrity businessman pledged to bind the wounds of division and called on Republicans and Democrats to come together after a “nasty” presidential race. Mr Trump paid tribute to his rival for a hard-fought campaign and promised to be “president to all Americans”.
“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” he said. “I promise you I will not let you down.”
Mr Trump will not be inaugurated until 20 January – but thoughts are already turning to how his presidency will unfold after his at-times inflammatory rhetoric, as well as promises to build a wall at the Mexican border and to ban Muslims from entering the US.
There were some anti-Trump protests although insignificant it has to be said, on both US coasts from Pennsylvania to California, Oregon and Washington as hundreds of people marauded through streets.
Mr Trump said his most important task will be to unify “those who turned away from one another as he defied conventional wisdom and played to fear and suspicion”. In a message to the world, Mr Trump said “while we will always put American interests first… we will get along with all other nations… willing to get along with us.”
After declaring his love for America, the reality TV star left the stage to the song, You Can’t Always Get What You Want – despite repeated requests from the Rolling Stones not to use their music.
Shortly afterwards, Mick Jagger tweeted: “Just was watching the news… maybe they’ll ask me to sing ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ at the inauguration, ha!”
Mrs Clinton’s supporters were left stony-faced and in tears at what was supposed to be her victory rally, a short distance away in New York, before being sent home by her campaign manager. I guess it was bad luck to buy her ‘victory celebration’ fireworks two weeks earlier.
While waiting for the results, supporters at the Trump rally shouted, “lock her up, lock her up”.Early exit polls had provided the Democrats with optimism, but shortly after 2am UK time the momentum began to shift as it emerged Mr Trump was edging ahead in a number of key states.
The first swing state to be called for Mr Trump was Ohio at around 3.30am, before others followed and Pennsylvania clinched it for the billionaire Republican just after 8am.
Exit polls also showed he triumphed by winning the backing of white, working-class voters, particularly non-college-educated men, trumping Mrs Clinton’s coalition of mainly women, minorities and young people.
However, Mr Trump INCREASED the Republican share of Hispanic voters – 29% versus Mitt Romney’s 27% despite the mainstream media falsely claiming he was ‘racist’. Canada’s main immigration website allegedly crashed and New Zealand reported an increase in traffic to its website for residency visas. Although it is most probably nonsensical political ‘spin’.
Hopefully, the Hollywood ‘stars’ like Oprah, Katy Perry, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and other similar lemmings will keep their word and emigrate to Canada as they threatened if ‘The Donald’ won. Funny how NONE of these ‘luvvies’ wanted to emigrate to Mexico. Oh, what delicious irony.
Great to see biased mainstream media like Sky News, BBC, CNN, ABC and the vast majority of the liberal media paying the price for chronic misreporting, lies and exaggerations. No one ever asked Hillary any searching questions. The elephant in the room.
Elle Magazine, Vogue, and other pathetic ‘sister’ titles that think having a ‘vag’ is ‘de rigueur’ for being the next US president as opposed to qualification. These lot were supporting a CRIMINAL for the presidency. Half the world read her corrupt emails.
In fact, I am sure they helped swing the vote as the reporting was utterly infuriatingly biased towards ‘Crooked Hillary’.
One study by Newsmax stated that Mr Trump got more news coverage during the presidential campaign, but 91% was hostile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first world leader to congratulate Mr Trump, saying he hoped for the two nations to engage in “constructive dialogue” on international issues. British Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK’s “special relationship” with the US remained “strong and close”.
The 70-year-old will be the oldest person ever inaugurated as US President.
Within hours his Twitter profile had been updated to “President-elect of the United States”, with an image of him with Vice President-elect Mike Pence against the backdrop of The White House.
On what turned out to be a dream night for the Republicans, the party also RETAINED control of the Senate and the House of representatives.
