Maybe these people should be venting their anger at Hilary, who appears to wasted a golden opportunity by being odious and generally s***.

I watched his acceptance speech this morning and as I say his body language and tone was very different to that of the rallies. He was grandstanding there and saying what the crowd wanted to hear, what got them going and what got him the publicity he wanted. This morning he was uite ifferent. He probably ever expected to win if he was honest Half of it won't happen as someone else said the republicans will probably be disappointed and the democrats surprised because by go's they will be watching his every move and listening to his every word.

It does make things quite difficult when you are raising children and trying to install values of respect, not speaking ill of others and having a decent moral compass and they see trump becoming undoubtedly one of the most important powerful men in the world after some of the things he has said and done. Quite at odds with what I am trying to instill.

As for it being farage 2 Obama 0 . Quite childish. I used to like farage. Now I see him as someone who is a trouble maker. He thinks it's funny to set the cat amongst the pigeons and upset the apple cart. He has made a career out of it all the while pretending to be a man of the people which when you scratch the surface he most certainly is not. Drinking a pint in your local does not mean you are one of the people. Very cleverly marketed if you like.

As for Trump - he will be judged at the end of his term of office.... but he hasn't got a hard act to follow in Obama.

The Brexit Trump double!

Nigel Farage 2 Barack Obama 0.

2016 is one of the most exciting years I have ever experienced (born 1954).

Lots of knee jerk reactions expected today from the usual suspects - but give it time and the world will probably see a better USA in 4 years time than the one Obama will hand over.

Talk of assassination is a bit premature and disingenuous... Trump is only President elect right now.

When he does get into power though it will be interesting to see which of Trump's pre-election promises he achieves first....

Locking Up Hilary?

Building the Wall and getting the Mexicans to pay for it?

Banning Muslims from entering the USA?

i suspect they were tongue-in-cheek, grandstanding boasts as is typical of his on stage persona.

I reckon he will turn out to be a pragmatic achiever and with the Republican majority at all political levels in Washington should get things moving.

His appointment will also be good for us if he keeps his promise to put The UK ahead of EU for trade negotiation once we have formally left the EU.

The dawn of a new era.

Really shocked. I thought the popular vote would be close, but the electoral college shouldn't have been.

Fair play to him. He has turned politics on its head, by tapping into an anti-establishment undercurrent as well as a racist, bigoted, misogynist undercurrent separately.

If that's what the people want, then that's what they get.

I suspect he will be much more pragmatic as actual President. He is relatively socially liberal, just fiscally conservative.

But it is going to be fun seeing him try and apply his most outrageous policy suggestions - banning Muslims from entering the country (which he admittedly backtracked on), getting Mexico to build a multi-billion dollar wall, deporting 11.5m "illegals".

As well as the shock horror around the world he no doubt had a word in his ear that those crazy policies would never go through congress and even if they would, they're unconstitutional anyway so tone it down Hill Billy Boy.

For anyone who remained unconvinced by Gazza’s Raol Moat chicken episode, this proves empirically the notion of Infinite Universes. There can be no other explanation. Just a pity we’re in this one. Still, it’s a laugh. A ha ha ha ha. Laugh through the tears – it’s the only way.

Maybe it’s all just a massive wind-up. Perhaps the President Defect will be sworn-in by the reanimated corpse of Jeremy Beadle. f***ing idiots. If you’re pissed-off with endemic hierarchical corruption, you set fire to and cut the heads off s***; you don’t choose to be led by someone able to be outwitted by a donkey. Leader of the Free World. How embarrassing. Imagine being envious of the North Koreans for their leader’s credibility. Ye gods. Still, progress of a sort – no female Potus but we do have the first retard. George W., now Klump - how the hell do Republicans top that? Get your money on their next winner in 2028 being a bag of rotting fish guts.

The Garbage-Man can...

How anti-establishment is a rich white business man, from a rich family? The anti-establishment candidate lost out on the Democratic Nomination.

Don't worry Michaela. We lost he won. That's all it boils down to for Hoof.

I don't particularly care one way or another for any of the senior US political figures, so my opinion is quite balanced and my questions aren't loaded. I don't think Obama is in any way cool, nor do I dislike him. You're obviously an Obama fanboy hence you've got defensive when I've questioned him. I think it still stands though - if Obama had united a country, or at least seen the green shoots of something like that happening, there wouldn't be such an appetite for change from the American people. It's not the only factor at play I know.