A bad day for the world

Let's hope that the rest of his government can keep him in check. As has been shown in this country over Brexit you cannot just steamroller through policies without the backing of all members. A sad day for all sane, liberal, free thinking people everywhere in the world. I haven' t heard any mention of LGBT people will he pick on us next?

Why don`t we just give him a chance and see what happens. I prefer him over Hilary Clinton any day.

Yes I live in a world where economies have to grow to keep the population in work and feed them. Continually dipping willy nilly into communal coffers soon depletes the national income - see the former USSR as a prime example. Far left ideologies and communism don't work. Help the poor but you have to have money generated by business to do it.

Above... quote from a friend

I can only assume that mocking those with disabilities; groping women; bragging about your power over them; crass insults; corporate deviance and toddler-like petulance will soon be on the American school curriculum. It's what the nation admires and has put into the highest office in the land... these are clearly the qualities that are most esteemed over there. These and the freedom to blow away kids in schools on a weekly basis.

God bless you, America!

(Again, apologies to all Americans who are as appalled as many others are with this outcome. Unfortunately, there's going to be more of this stuff flying about for a while, as I suspect you already know. Feel free to dish it back at Britain if you like: I think that as a nation, we're just as dumb.)

I'm stunned! the World can only hope that his advisers can rein him in.

Americans have my sincere sympathy, A good man like Obama doesn't deserve someone like trump to follow him .
We should all be very worried

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Politicians and the so-called financial and political elite have completely ignored this and ordinary working people for years, and not just in the USA either. This elit has cotinued to grow richer and richer despite the devastating events of the crash just as they have here. They at least have an alternative - we just have Corbyn! "Trumpism" is the result. I have friends in the USA, both working, not in the bottom income group but not rich either and I know they were planning to vote for Trump as a slap in the face for the shafters and troughers at the "top". As to what sort of President he will be, well that remains to be seen but he is the President now whether anyone likes it or not.

Le Pen in France next. Putin's hands must be quite hot what with all the rubbing they are doing.

Horrified and scared. Feel even less secure after Brexit. Even greater need for United States of Europe ?. My NATO colonel friend says security is the biggest worry since Brexit.

Happy birthday, Jane - though I don't know how you can achieve that. Oh woe is us. If only Michelle had been standing......
I feel sick.

May has sent a very friendly greeting

Dreadful day for the world but the Democrats should have chosen a better candidate. Not sure what Trump is for but we all know he disrespects women,is racist and will be for the rich people like him- very sad

2016 - Brexit, Grammar Schools and now Trump - back to 1970 and then 1950 and now 1930.

Lindill49 So now the fanatical right-wing replaces the very-slightly left-wing that the US have had under Obama? Official presidential policy will be every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost, with women and non-wasps an expendable underclass?

Heaven help America.

Take heart, jordana - you will never have to welcome him or his wife to your home. Our poor Queen will, and the very prospect of that would have me haring off to Windsor to pull up the drawbridge and post snipers on the battlements!!!

Beammeup I agree with your posts, hopefully those around Trump will moderate the sort of things he has been promising ( we all know how hard it is to stick to a manifesto from any party.)
wobblybits and any others, can we have no more talk of assassinations, this is the sort of thing better left to weirdos on Twitter.
Most of us are shocked by this win, but as his speech showed this morning, he is capable of normal rhetoric when not grandstanding, and although he is popular because of a tv show (Apprentice) He has always been a successful business man worth billions ( Ronald Reagan was an actor after all.)
Am guessing he will only have a few years as President, due to age and the fact that he won't deliver on what people want.
It's not neccessarily Armageddon ( we have to hope!)

It does feel like the 1930s. I must speak to my mother who was there!

Lindill49...do you live in the real world?

Well given that they may well have been a factor in his winning!!!!!

The FBI will probably be going through all his past with a fine tooth comb. I have no doubt whatsoever that there must be stuff buried in there at least as bad as what he accused HC of, that would get him impeached or whatever they do to presidents. He is not a man to have got through his life so far without making some intersting moves.

Like all the remoaners - get over yourselves and accept it. People are obviously sick of fanatical left wing politics which don't work!

Sat up in bed with a cuppa. Might not bother getting up! If I pull the bedclothes up over my head, will it all go away? ?

Nothing we can do about it. Brexit is being challenged but in the end we have to live with the final result. Trump being made President is the same as the U K voting for Brexit. I just wish they would leave God out of it.

Was watching this most of the night. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. He just doesn't seem to have a self control button. Hopefully his advisors have a bit more political acumen and can rein him in. Some lessons in diplomacy required.

One upside: Katie Hopkins says she will go there to live if Trump wins. Hope she keeps her promise!

I'm off to bed!

quite agree...can't bear to look at news...the thought of seeing his triumphant expression is too much. The world seems to work in cycles and my friend aged 93 just said to me that today is the worst day in history since 1939