Election provokes global anxiety
Trump stuns in upset Donald Trump elected president
POLITICAL novice and former reality TV star Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton to take the US presidency, stunning America and the world in an e x p l o s i v e upsetfuelled by a wave of grassroots anger.
The Republican mogul immediately pledged to unite a divided nation. But global markets had plunged into turmoil and the long-standing global political order, which hinges on US leadership, was cast into doubt.
Around the world, as the oncefeared prospect of a Trump presidency settled in as cold, hard reality, the November surprise was greeted with warnings that America has lurched into a national crisis, its leader “an unstable bigot, sexual predator and compulsive liar”, in the words of Britain’s Guardian.
Trump called for national reconciliation in his first comments after Clinton conceded defeat
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DONALD Trump’s stunning election victory on Tuesday night rippled way beyond the nation’s boundaries, upending an international order that prevailed for decades and raising profound questions about America’s place in the world.
For the first time since before World War II, Americans chose a president who promised to reverse the internationalism practised by predecessors of both parties and to build walls both physi cal and metaphorical. Trump’s win foreshadowed an America more focused on its own affairs while leaving the world to take care of itself.
The outsider revolution that propelled him to power over the Washington establishment of both political parties also reflected a fundamental shift in international politics evidenced already this year by events like
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