President Trump it is..

1. Unsurprising from a narrow point of view, having read the superforecasting methodology where events are assigned probabilities based on leading events, the election of Trump was never an impossibility that it was made out to be by the pundits, pollsters, and yes late night show hosts including the likes of Trevor Noah and Colbert. Trevor was so laughably off the mark with his day before sketch, and whilst Colbert visibly maintained his preference, he was also careful to cerebrally show that he fully understood the possibility of Trump winning the election was real.
2. Coming from the last posting on Podesta and the complacent liberal stance of not gonna happen, it also shows how the US electorate seemed to decide that Trump, could be their leader for any of the following reasons -

• that fulfils their economic self-interest, even if it includes putting up barriers against immigrants, and those not like them,

• to help regain their hardhitting "international policeman" state position, and abandon the diplomacy that was Obama's stance, and make the world safer for them
• restore the lost white pride, after 8 years of black man leadership, and hell no way will they allow a woman to lead them another 4 years
• and just plain xenophobic, fear that drives their decision to vote Trump.

3. Can't see how the choice was a rational one. It was an emotional one, driven by fear, hate, insecurity etc.

4. Now that you have the ticket, Trump needs to regain the trust and credibility lost during the campaigning. Malaysia has endured over 50 years of shitty campaigning followed up by sometimes very strong leadership, albeit that being absent in the past decade or so. For the sake of the rest of the world, Trump's policies must be credible and rational not just for them, but the rest of the world too.

5. A final word about democracy - Overrated. Leadership succession decision when placed in the hands of the knowledgeable and sincere, and guided by God, "trumps" leaving that most important of decision in the hands of the majority. American voters join their British voter brethren in failing to vote the most rational decision possible and allowed emotions to sway their minds, perhaps thinking 4 years isn't too long. Guess what, it bloody is.