There is no doubt that the one news story which has made the biggest impact everywhere is the US Presidential Election.

Unless you have been hibernating, you will know that multi-billionaire Donald Trump has shocked the world and political landscape by being elected as the 45th president of the United States of America, beating the Democrats’ nominee and former first lady Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s vote.

Momentum had been gathering for Trump over the last few weeks of the bitter contest, which has seen both the Republican candidate and his opponent seemingly focusing on personal jibes towards each other.

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But despite this, his victory still came as a surprise in a year full of shocks (Brexit, Leicester City, various celebrity deaths, Honey G remaining in the X Factor among them).

His win has sparked outrage and protests, with many citizens across the Atlantic proclaiming that Trump is “Not my president”.

Many are pointing at his views of immigration, building a wall across the Mexican border, ethnic minorities, women and worshippers of Islam as reasons why he is unfit to lead arguably the most powerful country in the world. That and the fact he has no experience of serving in public office.

However, like him or not, we must accept the result and simply play the waiting game.

Ultimately, Trump is either going to be a good or bad president. The majority believe it will be the latter, but we cannot truly judge until November 2020, when the next election is scheduled.

There was a similar view of Ronald Reagan when he won his way into the Oval Office in 1980. Many felt this was a washed-up actor who didn’t know what he was doing. But in the end, he turned out to be a popular leader who helped reform the nation. Whether Trump does the same is yet to be seen, but time will tell.

In a similar vein to Reagan’s election, we also have to remember Trump was up against weak opposition. In 1980, it was Jimmy Carter, seen as a useless president. This time, it was Hillary Clinton, seen as untrustworthy.

Whether Trump actually goes ahead with the plans he has voiced during the campaign will be interesting to see. It will tell whether the 70-year-old was simply trying to grab votes or whether he is actually more level-headed, as his acceptance speech on Wednesday morning suggested.

The other important thing to remember is that once in the role, Trump will not have the carte blanche to drastically change everything as a swarm of legal and political advisors will be on hand to temper any radical views.

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And that’s before his ideas reach the Senate and House of Representatives.

Trump’s campaign tactics were masterful in the way he focused on middle America, the “forgotten people” as he called them. He has a knack of saying the right thing at the right time to the right people.

It paid off in this election.

They voted him in and they will either keep him there or dump him off in four years’ time.

When that time comes round, will we be saying “he was actually quite good” or, to use the catchphrase from a TV show he fronted, we will be saying “YOU’RE FIRED!”? We’ll see.