Contemporary · North America · Politics

2016

Trump elected president

November 8, 2016

A real estate developer and reality TV star with no political experience defeated Hillary Clinton, winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by nearly three million. Coastal newsrooms gasped. The polls had been wrong, the assumptions had been wrong, and a kind of American politics no one had a name for began.

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Before and after in North America

Before: December 21, 2015: Falcon 9 lands itself
After: January 20, 2017: Trump's first inauguration

Before and after in Politics

Before: December 12, 2015: Paris Climate Agreement
After: January 20, 2017: Trump's first inauguration

Era

Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.