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Donald Trump becomes 45th US President

During campaign, Trump called US a dark America knocked to its knees'; people cheered him for saying what everybody's thinking'.

By :  sadhguru jaggi vasudev
Update: 2016-11-09 10:34 GMT
Donald Trump has stunned America and the world, riding a wave of populist resentment to defeat Hillary Clinton in the race to become the 45th president of the United States.
Activists of Hindu Sena celebrate victory of US Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump in the US Presidential elections, in New Delhi.
During a bitter two-year campaign that tugged at America's democratic fabric, the 70-year-old bombastic tycoon pledged to deport illegal immigrants, ban Muslims from the country and tear up free trade deals.
It was his first run for public office and Trump, a real-estate developer, reality television star and self-confessed owner of a big ego, called it a movement, not a campaign.
It took Trump, 70, little more than 10 months to vanquish 16 other Republican candidates and win the party's nomination, becoming the first major party nominee without government experience since General Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. He drew a record number of votes in primary contests but in so doing created a rift in the Republican Party.
Donald Trump's successful campaign for the White House broke every tradition and upended the political establishment with the same bluster, hyperbole and media mastery that made him one of the world's best-known businessmen.
Surrounded by family members, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks at his Election Night party at the Oshkosh Convention Center in Oshkosh.
I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans, he declared.
Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division, Trump told a cheering crowd of jubilant supporters in the early hours of Wednesday in New York, pledging to work with Democrats in office.
The Republican mogul defeated his Democratic rival, plunging global markets into turmoil and casting the long-standing global political order, which hinges on Washington's leadership, into doubt.
During campaign, Trump called US a dark America knocked to its knees'; people cheered him for saying what everybody's thinking'.

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