He's Hired!

A jubilant Donald Trump gave his signature thumbs up as he returned home to Trump Tower this morning as the president-elect of the United States of America.

Alongside his wife and First Lady to be Melania, the businessman and reality TV mogul was met by a crowd of well-wishers, many wearing his signature Make America Great Again baseball caps.

Meanwhile, Hillary supporters at home and abroad woke up shocked and dismayed at the decisive result which confounded the expectations of analysts, pollsters and election experts. Wall Street also had a shaky start Wednesday morning.

Dow Futures initially plummeted by 800 points overnight but the DOW index was up by 0.23 per cent minutes after the bell ringing at 9.30am. It slipped moments later and remained down by 30 points for the next half hour before steadying at around 10am to be up some 50 points.

Earlier in the evening, Trump marked his world-shaking victory over Hillary Clinton with a dramatic peace-making gesture for the rival he had called ‘crooked’ before promising that America would ‘come together as never before’.

After he sensationally won the White House race, Clinton phoned him at 2:30 a.m. to concede she had lost and in the first words of his victory speech he said: ‘We owe her a debt of gratitude and I mean that very sincerely’.

She made the private call shortly after sending her campaign chairman to give her supporters exactly the opposite message, that it was not over – a humiliating and bizarre end to a political career which had put her on the verge of being the first female president.

Instead, a jubilant Trump Election Night headquarters party erupted in cheers as the news broke.

President-elect Trump waved to the cameras as he returned home to Trump Tower early Wednesday morning

Trump accepted the mantle of leadership with uncharacteristic humility nearly three hours after the West Coast polls closed.

‘Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division,’ he began his victory speech just before 3am.  ‘I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans – and this is so important to me.

‘For those who have chosen not to support me in the past – of which there were a few people – I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help, so we can work together and unify our great country.’

‘I promise you that I will not let you down,’ he said.

He went on to reiterate his promise to ‘Make America Great Again’.

‘I’ve gotten to know our country so well. Tremendous potential. It is going to be a beautiful thing. Every single American will have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.’

He added: ‘America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our country’s destiny and dream big and bold and daring. We have to do that. We’re going to dream of things for our country, and beautiful things and successful things once again.’

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