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The US administration appeared willing to put aside such concerns and hand over the nuclear codes to the property developer turned reality TV star for the second time.
Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, in a stunning political revival that sent shockwaves across America and around the world.
Trump becomes the first convicted felon to win the White House. At 78, he is also the oldest person ever elected to office.
The result will set off alarm bells in foreign capitals, given Trump's chaotic leadership style and overtures to authoritarians like Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-un. He was branded a threat to democracy and even a fascist by his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and some of his former White House officials.
However, the American electorate proved willing to put such concerns aside and hand over the nuclear codes to the property developer turned reality TV star for the second time.
Trump defeated Harris, a Democrat who had sought to make history herself as the first woman, the first black woman and the first Asian-American to become president in the 248-year history of the US. At 5:37 a.m. ET, The Associated Press called Wisconsin for Trump, with the state's 10 electoral college votes bringing Trump's total to 277 — well short of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
Her loss represents a devastating, anxiety-inducing blow to supporters who remember Hillary Clinton's crushing defeat in 2016.
But for Trump, the most unlikely comeback is now complete. Many analysts assumed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 spelled the end of his political career, especially when an angry mob of his supporters – fueled by his lie that the election was stolen – stormed the US Capitol on January 6 2021, resulting in the second impeachment.
But while Trump's grip on the Republican party was briefly shaken, he stood strong. The three-times-married New Yorker convicted of sexual abuse remained an unlikely hero of evangelical Christians and the white working class, and polls suggested he gained small but significant traction among African-American and Latino voters. .
Four criminal cases — including a conviction on 34 felony counts of concealing hush money payments to adult movie star Stormy Daniels — would have been devastating for any other politician, but only seemed to strengthen Trump's position with His "Make America Great Again" (Maga).
Throwing out scathing insults, Trump brushed aside challengers to claim the Republican presidential nomination for a third consecutive term. Just before the party's convention in July, he survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, an escape that many allies took as a sign from God (another would-be assassin was caught at one of Trump's golf courses in Florida in September) .
Trump's victory suggests that his voice, often crude and muddled, deceitful and racist, still resonated with voters disillusioned with the political establishment. It was also a repudiation of Biden's productive legislative presidency and his dire warnings about the danger Trump poses to American institutions and global security.
The election result threatens mass convulsions and protests across the country. Trump ran on a now-familiar campaign theme of nativist populism that promised the largest-ever deportation of undocumented people, whom he called "animals" with "bad genes" who were "poisoning the blood of the country."
He complained that the US was "like a dustbin" to the rest of the world.
Trump got a big boost from the world's richest man, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who gave millions of dollars to voters in swing states who signed a petition linked to his political action committee.
The former president also cast his criminal charges as a political attack, vowing "retaliation" against perceived enemies and embracing increasingly dystopian rhetoric. He made ominous comments threatening to deploy the military inside the country against "enemies from within" and promised to pardon jailed supporters of the January 6 uprising.
Trump will be the first president to serve non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland, who served from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897./ Adapted from The Guardian
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