We can’t believe we’re writing this sentence, but Donald J. Trump has been elected as the 45th president of the United States of America.
The billionaire businessman/former star of The Celebrity Apprentice today secured his seat in the oval office, after surpassing the required 270 college votes.
The Republican’s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton was clinched by razor-thin wins in crucial battleground states including Ohio, Florida and North Carolina.
While Clinton won’t be conceding publicly tonight at her New York HQ, Trump told his supporters that she had telephoned him to congratulate him on his victory.
Delivering his victory speech in his home state of New York, Trump thanked Secretary Clinton for “a hard-fought” campaign.
“We owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country,” he said. I mean that very sincerely.”
President-elect Trump called for Americans to “come together as one united people” and begin “the urgent task of rebuilding the nation”.
“America will no longer settle for anything less than the best,” he said. “We must reclaim our country’s destiny and dream big and bold and daring. We have to do that. We’re going to dream of things for our country, and beautiful things, and successful things, once again.”
Widely dubbed an “unpopularity contest”, the 2016 race is set to go down as the most divisive and controversial in US history.
While Clinton failed to overcome the tidal wave of discontent caused by the FBI’s 11th-hour revival of an investigation into her professional use of a private email server, allegations of criminal conduct against Trump weren’t enough keep him out of the White House.
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"Good luck America we're thinking of you."
Isn't this what you term 'concern-trolling'?
What a surprise the left leaning media got it wrong. It's called democracy. America voted and the majority won. It's time to move on and get over it.
..except Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, so the majority did not win.
Less than 50% of America voted. On individual votes, HRC actually received more, but because of the way they are tallied, lost in the electoral colleges.
So less than 25% of the US voted for Donald Trump.
It's a crock of shit.
Actually, 56% of eligible voters turned out.
By that way of thinking, Obama 2012 had fewer votes than Trump, call the cops, there is an intruder in the Whitehouse, it's a crock of shit Obama calls himself president.