- Michael WalshMichael Moore called Trump’s victory. Now he has a plan.
Filmmaker Michael Moore expected Donald Trump to win the presidential election when many of his fellow liberal commentators were still laughing at him. Ahead of the election, Moore tried to warn progressives that they were in a liberal echo chamber that ignored the very real possibility that Trump could defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump,” he wrote Wednesday on Facebook.
- Dylan Stableford‘Heartbroken’ Hillary supporter goes for hike, spots Clinton doing the same thing
A “heartbroken” Hillary Clinton supporter decided to take her daughter for a hike in New York’s Westchester County on Thursday, a day after Donald Trump’s stunning victory over the former secretary of state in the presidential election. “I’ve been feeling so heartbroken since yesterday’s election and decided what better way to relax than take my girls hiking,” Margot Gerster wrote on Facebook. Clinton has not made a public appearance since Wednesday morning, when the defeated Democratic nominee gave her concession speech, holding back tears in front of devastated family and staff at a Manhattan hotel.
- Dylan StablefordActs of intimidation, violence and vandalism reported after Trump win
A Donald Trump piñata is burned in Los Angeles on Nov. 9, 2016, by people protesting his election as president. In the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning victory in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, there have been multiple reports of violence and vandalism tied to the inflammatory comments the president-elect made about women, Hispanics and other minorities during his divisive campaign. • In Philadelphia, graffiti — including swastikas, Trump’s name and the message “Sieg Heil 2016” — was found spray-painted on the windows of an abandoned fur store.
Yahoo News Photo StaffDonald Trump meets with Obama at the White House and visits the CapitolPresident-elect Donald Trump swooped into Washington, D.C., on Thursday for his first-ever visit to the White House since his historic election, huddling with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office for more than an hour and a half. The brash entrepreneur then headed off for meetings with leaders of the Republican majorities in Congress. Obama and Trump struck a conciliatory pose in brief remarks after the meeting, their first face-to-face conversation after years of doing long-distance political battle. They presented a united, bipartisan front by refusing to answer questions from reporters.
- Olivier KnoxTrump makes first White House visit as president-elect
Obama and Trump struck a conciliatory pose in brief remarks after the meeting, their first face-to-face conversation after years of doing long-distance political battle. Obama said he and Trump had an “excellent” and “wide-ranging” conversation about domestic policy and world affairs, and he urged Americans to rally behind their soon-to-be leader at a time when angry protesters have taken to the streets in several cities to reject Trump’s election. “I believe that it is important for all of us — regardless of party, and regardless of political preferences — to now come together, work together and deal with the many challenges that we face,” Obama said.
- Yahoo News Photo Staff‘I Wanted to be Rambo. I Wanted to be Lakota.’ – Native American veterans tell their stories
The Lakota Nation has a long warrior tradition to prove manhood in combat. Native Americans join the US military at a higher rate than any other ethnic group. This was true even before 1924, when the Snyder Act granted United States citizenship to all Native Americans.
- Dylan StablefordRussian deputy foreign minister says Moscow was in contact with the Trump campaign
Donald Trump’s spokeswoman says that if there was any contact between members of the president-elect’s campaign and the Russian government, she was not aware of it. “I do not know of any campaign official that was communicating with any foreign entity during the campaign,” Hope Hicks, Trump’s longtime spokeswoman, told Yahoo News on Thursday. “Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
- Colin CampbellApplying for a job in the Trump administration? Here are your financial disclosure requirements.
If you want to work in Donald Trump’s administration, you’ll have disclose more personal and financial information than Trump himself revealed during the campaign. Trump, who broke precedent by refusing to release his tax returns, requires job applicants to disclose “financial holdings and sources of income” and potential conflicts of interest. The requirement is posted on Trump’s new transition website, GreatAgain.gov, which also asks visitors to submit ideas for the new administration.
- Matt BaiPresident Trump: America chooses an antihero
Last May, after Donald Trump at last secured the Republican nomination for president, I wrote about what I thought was Trump’s best scenario for victory, and I compared the coming campaign to a movie theater. The answer, it turns out, is enough to make Trump the 45th president of the United States — and the least likely in our history. Like most everyone else, we’d been hearing all day that Trump’s late surge seemed to have fallen short (just as we heard, on Election Day in 2004, that John Kerry was easily sweeping George W. Bush out of office).
Evan ThomasLearning to live in Trump HouseIn trying to make sense of Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday, it helps to take the long view. A good place to start is with the tumult of the 1960s. Trump’s stunning election is the unintended — but actually unsurprising — consequence of a great and essentially positive revolution in society and politics that is still far from over. His rise to power carries great risks, but it is possible that his time in office will be part of a turbulent, sometimes traumatic process that we can still use to work toward a better future.
Michael WalshEnvironmentalists fear President-elect Trump’s climate change policiesPresident-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night rally, Nov. 9, 2016, in New York. Leaders of prominent environmental organizations are concerned that Donald Trump was elected president. Gene Karpinski, the president of the League of Conservation Voters, said Wednesday that it’s important to keep campaigning for the environment even though Trump has decried climate change as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.
Dylan StablefordCarson: Trump was 'quite somber' when he sensed victoryDr. Ben Carson says that when Donald Trump was starting to sense victory in Tuesday’s presidential election, the future president-elect was remarkably reserved. “He was quite somber,” Carson told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday, “I think really reflecting on the tremendous responsibility that was going to be on his shoulders. The retired neurosurgeon said the surprisingly tentative tone is a preview of what Trump’s White House will look like.
- Michael WalshDistraught Clinton supporters feel shock, grief over Trump victory
Some liberal Americans were so ill prepared for the possibility that Donald Trump might actually be elected the 45th president of the United States that they are having trouble coming to terms with their new reality. For many, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had a wealth of public service experience with a positive, diverse vision of the United States. On the other hand, Trump, a political newcomer, never had held elected office before and was hounded by a string of controversies that would have buried other campaigns.
Yahoo News Photo StaffProtests after Donald Trump’s victoryAs Donald Trump took the stage at the Hilton in Manhattan to deliver his presidential acceptance speech early Wednesday morning, protesters from New York to California took to the streets. See FULL STORY by Caitlin Dickson /Yahoo News See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr.
- Olivier KnoxObama urges unity after Trump victory
President Obama promised on Wednesday to ensure a smooth handover of power to Donald Trump come January. “We are now all rooting for his success in uniting, and leading, this country,” Obama told a crowd of roughly 150 bleary-eyed aides in the Rose Garden of the White House, with Vice President Joe Biden standing next to him. Obama, who said he had spoken to the president-elect at around 3:30 a.m., said his administration would work hard to make Trump’s Jan. 20 assumption of his duties smooth — as hard as then President George W. Bush did when the former Illinois senator won his historic race in 2008.
- Liz GoodwinHillary Clinton: We owe Donald Trump an ‘open mind’
Hillary Clinton asked her supporters to accept the results of the 2016 election and keep an “open mind” about Donald Trump’s presidency in a concession speech at a midtown Manhattan hotel Wednesday morning. “Donald Trump is going to be our president,” Clinton told several hundred supporters in the New Yorker hotel ballroom. Clinton said she hoped Trump “will be a successful president for all Americans” and that he would bring the country together.
Yahoo News Photo StaffWorld reaction to Trump’s stunning victoryDonald Trump’s stunning performance in the U.S. presidential election triggered shock and angst around the world, where observers fretted over the implications for everything from trade to human rights and climate change. (AP) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr.
- Michael WalshAfter Trump victory, ‘not my president’ becomes liberal rallying cry
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States ignited angry protests from left-leaning Americans online and elsewhere — with the phrase “not my president” echoing throughout.
- Jon WardTrump’s big win masks deep divide in the Republican Party
Last Thursday, conservative writer Andrew Sullivan was convinced that Donald Trump would win the presidency, and he was beside himself. “I think the shock will be how big his margin will be,” Sullivan told me. “Comey made this a referendum on the Clintons,” he said, referring to FBI Director James Comey, whose Oct. 28 letter to Congress about Hillary Clinton’s private email server reset the presidential race.
Yahoo News Photo StaffNewspapers around the world react to Donald Trump’s victoryDonald Trump’s victory on Election Day was notable not only that it contradicted the polls, but that it defied the entire newspaper opinion-page consensus that the Republican nominee was not fit for the presidency. Newspapers that had historically only endorsed Republicans and publications that had never endorsed anyone before slammed Trump’s candidacy. But the defiant developer, who accused the media of somehow rigging the election, was not harmed by the criticism.
Yahoo News Photo StaffDonald Trump’s America, Part 2After officially claiming the Republican presidential nomination in July, Donald Trump's campaign has ebbed back and forth between momentum and controversy, leading pundits to more than once to declare the celebrity businessman's White House aspirations dead. As the most unpredictable election in a generation wound its way towards a wild end, Trump unveiled a series of stunning attacks on Clinton — including a surprise appearance with women who have accused her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of sexual harassment and assault.
- Yahoo News Photo StaffTears and cheers as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton supporters clash at the White House
Tensions ran high with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump supporters in front of the White House. Donald Trump was elected president of the United States after capturing Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, putting him over the 270 threshold. Voters eager to shake up the nation’s political establishment picked the celebrity businessman to become the nation’s 45th president.
Caitlin DicksonProtests erupt over Trump’s presidential winAs Donald Trump took the stage at the Hilton in Manhattan to deliver his presidential acceptance speech early Wednesday morning, protesters from New York to California took to the streets. Pitt student protesting against Trump still going strong on Fifth Ave more than an hour after the protest began. @ThePittNews pic.twitter.com/VuNX5Qje95
- Jerry AdlerTrump’s stunning campaign rewrote all the rules. What about his presidency?
With virtually no on-the-ground organization, lackadaisical support at best from the leaders of his own party, and outspent by a large margin in advertising, Donald J. Trump won the presidency with a campaign built around raucous rallies and a visceral appeal to a shrinking slice of the American electorate, the rural and small-town white working class. Historians will debate how much damage was done to Hillary Clinton during the week that the FBI kept the country in suspense over a renewed investigation of her emails, but her troubles with the electorate began long before and ran deeper. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in New York, on Nov. 9, 2016.
- Jon WardTrump’s victory stunned even GOP digital team
The best data inside the Trump campaign and the RNC had Donald Trump’s chances of winning the presidency as a one-in-five proposition. Last Friday, the RNC gathered a handful of reporters inside its Capitol Hill headquarters in Washington to share what its most up-to-date election model showed. RNC staffers thought Trump would win 240 Electoral College votes, 30 short of the 270 needed to win.
