Wednesday 9 November 2016

Donald Trump's victory: Anger and grief outside White House

At 2.30am on Wednesday, a young man in a red Make America Great Again hat climbed a tree by the White House gate and shouted: "Donald Trump is the next president of our country."

Around him, loud boos rang out from the crowds as breaking-news alerts confirmed what the man had just announced.

"F*** Donald Trump, F*** Donald Trump," then came out in a united chorus from the hundreds of mainly young people who had gathered outside the president's home, many of them in anticipation of celebrating the election of the first female president of the United States.
But from state after state, the numbers that came in were disappointing for the Clinton camp. What analysts and pollsters had considered unlikely, slowly came to pass.

Source: Aljazeera

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