I’m so tired that I just realized, oh right, it’s Wednesday and this is when the weekly magazines comes out. People Magazine put Donald Trump on their cover – they probably had two covers mocked up, one for Hillary and one for Trump. You can read the People coverage here –People Mag had a reporter “embedded” with the campaign in the final days, even though one of their reporters had been sexually assaulted and harassed by Trump. Which brings me to one thing that people haven’t been talking about too much so far today: how the media totally and utterly failed to cover Donald Trump’s campaign properly. There were some journalists and political commentators who did great work, but the “untold story” of this election might be the media’s collusion with a “celebrity” like Trump.
What else? There are some early names for President-Elect Trump’s cabinet. Allegedly, he wants Newt Gingrich for Secretary of State, Rudy Giuliani for Attorney General and possible RNC chairman Reince Priebus for chief of Staff. I don’t want to talk about it. Jesus Christ.
Hillary Clinton will be speaking shortly, at 9:30 am. Kellyanne Conway told ABC this morning that Clinton and Trump’s phone exchange was pleasant and complimentary.
I read half of Andrew Sullivan’s NY Magazine piece, “The Republic Repeals Itself” and it made me so depressed that I actually just had to stop reading it. And people keep comparing 11/9 to 9/11. I can’t. I think that’s in poor taste. Don’t get me wrong, I think we’re headed towards the apocalypse too. But… not today. Go and hug your kids, go play with your dog. Eat some ice cream and have a good cry. And then tomorrow we’ll get back to work.
Photos courtesy of Getty, cover courtesy of People.
I feel so sick to my stomach. I can’t believe I am living this reality. As a Palestinian American living in the USA right now all I feel is fear and any sense of security I’ve had is gone. I am afraid to leave my house, I am afraid of what people will say to me when I’m out my house because clearly more people than I thought hold the same values as Trump and that scares me.
I am so sorry.
I am very happy to have muslims, immigrant or otherwise, in our country. It scares me, too, just how many people hold racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, anti-muslim AND anti-semitic views. Oh, anti-gay, too.
One thing we can do is to get involved now in grassroots political or social justice groups.
Just not today. My soul feels drained.
Sam, we all feel sick to our stomachs. My husband is muslim. just dont forget that Trump did NOT win the popular vote. he is not representative of most americans. A disturbingly large swathe, yes, but not the majority. Shame on all the people who did not vote in their swing states.
I feel the same way you do which is fear as an African-American/Muslim, female. This is a scary time for all of us. Whats more scary is the people who supported him because he is hateful against everyone. How anyone can stand behind a man who has allegedly assaulted women, racist and a liar is just beyond disturbing. This country will never move forward toward positive things and God help all on what type of relationships he will have with foreign leaders. @Susanne I am drained too.
Sam, reading your comments brought tears to my eyes. I also agree 100% w/ Susanne’s remarks. I am White, and I also feel scared.
Sam, I’m a Palestinian Canadian and I truly do feel for you. I have family in California and Arizona and I can’t even imagine what they’re thinking right now. Hang in there, be strong, and try not to let hateful, fearful people bring you down.
You’re not alone. My immediate and honest reaction to “President-elect trump” was nausea. This is so, so bad… welcome to a national nightmare.
Me too. I thought I had a bug, but maybe it’s that.
I’m so sorry. I have no words. Please know that not everyone feels the hate.
Same black woman here and I’ve been crying since last night. Texted my family this morning to be safe. Spoke to my cousins who are 5 before they went off to school because they have no idea how things have changed.
This is a stain that won’t go away. I won’t ever get back a sense of security in this country.
Also another piece to blame for this fiasco is the media treating Trump with kid gloves and Clinton with vitriol.
He will never be my president!
If something happens to this 70 year old person, then Pence will take over. We are doomed.
Pence is worse, I agree. I hope they don’t have another chance 2020..
I refuse to call him President Trump. He doesn’t deserve the title. He’s not our president.
Exactly!
I refuse as well. How can one believe in America and be patriotic, but say no to the president and everything he stands for?
I am waiting for some really smart person to come up with a just say no kinda thing, only effective. Not no to Trump specifically (though I just want to trash him, that effing flaming dumpster) but saying no to hate, to exclusion, to this black and white (ha- don’t mean this in a racial context) thinking that it must be one way or another, one party or another.
Praying we can get a truly progressive voice among the people and find a good representative for that voice.
It’s got to start now.
I will never call him President. And to all you racist, sexist, xenophobic people who voted for him, middle finger up to you. I don’t give a shit if I offended anyone on this site or anywhere else. If you voted for Trump you showed your true colors.
Even though I thought it was a possibility that he could win, I still can’t fathom it. I am so ashamed and embarrassed by this country that I live in. It’s a sad day to be an American.
@V4Real You express my feelings exactly. I knew that there was a possibility he could win, I just believed in America so much that I thought we would never actually elect him. I thought decency and reason would win. Obviously I was wrong.
I will never use the words President and Trump together in a sentence. This pig does not represent me, ever.
It may seem petty, but I refuse to capitalize his name. He is a small, small man.
I’ve been crying all morning. I’m an elementary school teacher and I don’t know how I’ll get thru this day. I feel like we’ve failed future generations. Thank god for great friends and Xanax.
We did failed our nation’s children. We have set a precedent that can not be undone. This is going to be worse then any of us can imagine.
Olivia Wilde tweeted “gutted.” That is exactly how I feel.
I’m also an elementary school teacher. A lot of my students are so upset. I’m saddened beyond belief. It’s unreal. I’m in California, so I plan on being stoned for the next 4 years.
I’m in Alabama. I have a xanax prescription and a great weed connection so I’m right there with ya! 😘
But you don’t feel like you’re failing future generations by taking Xanax and going to teach children? Sickening.
Stay strong.
I am so so so sorry for all of you. I thought argentine politics were bad but this takes the cake. People like Trump and Pence in the Whitehouse scares the shite out of me. I was thinking of taking my money and time to the US and getting a MBA but after last night I am now looking at Canada, Australia and Europe. I don’t feel the US would be a safe place for me, a double minority. I lived in the US and I loved it, I loved the people, their friendliness. It seems I only met the “nice” people.
I also hope Trump is able to finish his term because Pence is way worse. And even though I would love to see the Republican party implode, I don’t want the world to deal with the consequences of the american economy being broken again.
One silver lining I hope to see? No one can now mock a person who speaks with an accent. Your First Lady has been in the US since the 90s and her english and accent is terrible. Hopefully this will happen.
Well that’s definitely been photoshopped…..a lot!! Its terrible; you can just feel the narcissists, monstrous ego expanding.
Yes, I thought so too… he suddenly looks less orange and about 15 years younger. Ugh. That’s how I’ve felt all morning. Just UGH. I’m saddened that so many people responded to his disgusting, divisive message.
He looks like an exploding sponge.
One advantage of being Canadian and American: the marriage proposals have begun. Not how I ever expected to get a date, to be honest.
We had one task…ONE TASK…and we failed.
hey there…we should chat sometime (wink)
Oh gawd, Bearcat. One of the few legitimately funny things to read today. Thank you.
I guess it would be the same for me too … except I’m taken. By another Canadian American.
One of my friends posted this on Facebook:
“Sooo…have you ever watched “Big Love?”
Had to laugh through my pain!
Rudy Giuliani for AG? So Chris Christie for SCOTUS? God please wake me up from this fever dream.
Even worse Massive Turd Jeff Sessions in SCOTUS. He’s our Senator and one of trump’s biggest lapdogs. He’s a noted racist.
Ugh, cant WAIT for Time’s Person of the Year cover. 🙁
I’m going to learn to play darts.
I bought our local paper and was going to do exactly that with the front page!
Crazy thing- it had this advertisement half-cover over it, so all you see is trump’s face and a huge (yuuuuge) headline reading ANGER. Take the ad thing off (for medicare, ironically) and you see the full front page: clinton and trump facing eachother, and the caption is actually CLIFFHANGER.
Actually, I ripped off the front page and put it in the bathroom. I’m getting low on TP.
Tungsten. They’re more accurate. I want you to have all the satisfaction.
Canadian here. I just feel deeply, deeply sad. I’m so sorry this is happening to you guys.
Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump – I’m so frustrated, angry and disappointed. The next four years are going to be horrible.
Don’t forget Kellyanne.
And we thought moose woman would finally stay in Alaska.
Trump kept saying the process is “rigged.” Evil forces.
They should have put Vladimir Putin on the cover. He’s the real winner here.
That Op-Ed is fear-mongering at it’s worst. That’s how people are frightened into voting against their own wishes and fostering the very thing it was touting everyone should be afraid of.
Fear-mongering is how Brexit happened, irrespective of the 30yr Brexit project.
Fear-Mongering is how Trump won.
Michelle Obama’s call to take the high road is how to read and act on this Op-Ed.
THIS^All day long.
My younger daughter asked
What about LGBTQ people, will her older sister be safe?
What about Papa’s job?
What about the stock market, are we poor now?
What about abortion?
Will there be a war with Mexico?
We discussed it all and she didn’t cry until she asked if this means Donald Trump will be in the Hall of Presidents at Disney World.
God help us all.
…I blame Jessie Ventura…he started a trend for crazy voting…
I thought of him too.
This just proves to me that if Arnold Schwarzenegger was eligible for president, he would absolutely win. Celebrity over competence every time.
Nope, Ronald Reagan started it.
My People should arrive in my mailbox tomorrow. I’ll make sure to eat a lot of Taco Bell, so when I gets the explosive poops, I can wipe my ass with that cover photo.
be good to yourself. Find a taco truck, run by a mexican family. Your bum will thank you. I think fun trump memes will be an outlet for me.
Mine will arrive Friday. Luckily I live in Houston which has taco trucks everywhere. And Houston was deep blue on the map last night, btw.
Can you blur his big ugly mug on his stories? I can’t stomach seeing his face today.
I second this idea. It’s for the collective good and for the sake of decency.
Agree. Think of the children. And all of the adults who knew better and tried to save American from itself.
I couldn’t sleep tonight, I feel worn out.
I know many people are unhappy and angry, that’s why they voted for Trump but I still don’t get it.. he’s an orange reality TV celebrity, he knows nothing about politics (e.g. didn’t even know that Russia invaded Ukraine).. I just don’t get it. I feel like crying when I think about the next for years.
*four
I stayed up ’till 6 AM waiting for the results. I feel like a zombie right now and not because I didn’t sleep.
I am so SAD.
I know how you feel, Cee 🙁 I don’t know what the future brings but it won’t be pretty.
It needs to be our goal to make this farce a one term “president . ” we need to get smart and organized , yes the next 4 years are going to be awful. I cannot wrap my brain around that we went to an amazing 8 years with Obama and now this . Horrific
I’m with you. I want to do something. I want to help this country get back on track. This is horrifying.
Here’s a place we can all start:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/if-youre-overwhelmed-by-the-election-heres-what-you-can-do-now_us_5822c7d0e4b0e80b02cdf133?
I have a feeling most of the sorry asses that voted for him, including women 20-35, uneducated Blue collar workers and educated young White college men will come to regret their decision.
Biden 2020. If there is a 2020.
I’m wishing the worst for Trump.
If nothing else those who voted for him will see how wrong they were. His catchphrases and double talk/denials won’t hold up as president. His undoing will happen. Silver lining? Comedic gold! But, yea. We’re all losing here.
I’m an American and I’m really sad over this.
Educated white men will be just fine. Unfortunately.
Great. Now we have to see the Trumps and their smug faces almost daily..
What will melania’s cause be? Illegal immigration?
She already said – online bullying.
Bizarro world.
I’ve spent the last 2 hours laying on my bed cuddling my dog and crying. He has made sure to try to lick away all my tears. He can tell i’m really upset and has brought me all of his toys (he has lots of toys) and won’t leave my side. Pitbulls are just the best.
I had to let my mom know morning that Trump won. She was silent for a minute, then broke down crying. I’ve never seen her cry like that. Not ever.
I don’ have words to express how i’m feeling. I’m both utterly repulsed and completely hollow.
I have been planning to rescue a dog for some time, and it’s all I want to do today. I’m going to get applications in for some rescues. That will help. Glad you have pitty love….
That’s such a good and sweet idea!!! Good luck in your search for a new best friend!
I’ve been on pinterest looking at Faith in Humanity Restored posts so I can remember that not everything is awful.
My pittibull baby girl is doing the same today. They are such empaths; I need to remember that so I can keep myself in check emotionally and spare her from feeling bad just because I do. It’s a beautiful autumn day in the PNW and we are gonna do our best to enjoy it and pretend the last 24 hours didn’t happen. Sending love and light into all the spaces that need it today.
2016 you suck.
I seriously Hate this year. 2020 couldn’t come fast enough. ☹️
I’m just grateful to be alive, to see another day with my family and my kids. This is terrible, but I could have not woken up this morning, which would have been worse. Just got to keep pushing forward.
Yes, we still have our pet kids and food on the table. We lived through the long aftermath of Gore 1.0 (so similar). We’ll keep the focus on what’s good and right.
I don’t think DT understands what he now has on his plate. This is far from a reality show where filming ends and he can disappear into his own world. Some of his supporters may not be the only ones sorely disappointed.
I’ve decided to help as many people as possible and to be kind as possible to all. I am not going to let his nastiness get to me or make me do the same nastiness to his supporters. Hopefully, I will brighten my small part of the world a little bit!
YES.
Do it! Love & kindness is a powerful thing and your part of the world will be better for it.
Here’s a place we can start:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/if-youre-overwhelmed-by-the-election-heres-what-you-can-do-now_us_5822c7d0e4b0e80b02cdf133?
This is horrifying.
I couldn’t sleep.
Oh, and I’m never reading People again or clicking on their site.
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
By David Remnick
Editor of the New Yorker
much better read than the NYT one
call to arms people. we have a lot of work to do.
have your representative’s (on all levels) contact info available and COMPLAIN about each bad idea and every mis-step. email phone and write.
and vote Democratic in the mid-term election in 2018! We can take back the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate. Do to him what Boehner did to President Obama.
We don’t have to sit by and wait for 2020.
Right on. Do NOT wait another 4 years.
I want an investigation of Paul Ryan’s emails. Just because.
This has really been a terrible year in every single way possible!
Like honestly eff 2016.
I don’t agree that it is in poor taste to compare 9/11 and 11/9. I feel it is incredibly accurate. Just because something is slow to unfold does not mean it is not cataclysmic.
Usually i think comparisons to 9/11 are in poor taste, but in this case it just seems apt in explaining the inevitable devastation we are sure to face.
I was so positive and hopeful about America’s future. Now i feel like every bit of hope and positivity has been sucked out of my body.
This day is actually 9/11 in Europe.
And everywhere else except America and the way they write down dates,
We will lose all friends, except Russia.
Oh My God. I can’t believe this, the miserable trolls will be part of head of office. GOOD LUCK, AMERICA, YOU ARE GOING TO REALLY NEED IT.
Keep us in your prayers.
Forgive them, for they know not what they did.
I still can’t believe this shit.. I’m so shocked. It’s like a bad nightmare. What’s wrong with some people?!
We’ll all suffer the next 4 years but I hope the people who voted for him or Johnson suffer the most. He only cares about himself and other rich people.
wtf. Between Trump and Johnson it was the ‘who is more erratic, clueless, and downright creepy’ contest. Who are these people?
Don’t know – but I can’t understand the people who voted for Johnson because a Johnson vote = a Trump vote
He and Pence will do so much damage that will affect the next 20/30 years simply by choosing several judges for the Supreme Court.
Fu*k all those Susan Sarandons who voted for Trump/Putin.
Those who voted for independent parties indirectly voted for Trump. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Yep, I’m so angry at them.
* deep and heavy sigh *
I can’t imagine being Hillary Clinton right now. To be an actually qualified, competent candidate and then to lose to …Trump, that must be infuriating as f.
I had the same thought this morning. How devastated she must feel as an educated, qualified, experienced candidate. To lose to this f-cker. I’m heartbroken.
I think one thing the Trump supporters were right were liberal bias in the media. Or there were huge flaws in polling systems and other ways to measure support. Otherwise Trump would not have been seen a underdog the way he was. Or maybe Hillary supporters just assumed she would win anyway and did not vote?
So, this morning my aunt/cousins/sis/mom Family Chat is us having to have this conversation with the children (18-16) , who are by the way INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED ( my cousin typed, so…Better School Shootings for all?) simultaneously with also least woke/more religious family members (my aunt who thinks they are white and my sister devout Xstian) and I’m just smoothly sliding off my cracker to be honest, my mom called me to vent cause she wants to talk to someone that she can go off on and i was Instantly bawling, Which she called for me to give her some sort of breakdown of why this was happening but she ended having to console me the whole F*cking way work. This is all of our rights about to be trampled at every turn with full cooperation of the courts the senate and house… for at least a generation if they manage to appoint themselves well, I can’t even imagine what the LGBT community, the Muslim American communities are going thru.
I fear most for our muslim americans. I think we have to come together and say that this is not okay. This is America. This is how we came about, religious freedom. And genocide and slavery, but the religious freedom and equality for all stuff is really good.
I’ve been crying all morning. This is awful:(
This is so fucked up. I’m Canadian and scared. I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like for Americans right now. Stay safe.
I’m truly truly sad and shocked … How can this get to this point?
The world seems to be entering a new alarming era… as in a nightmare.
All my empathy to American people, Stay strong! From Canada
Melania and Barron (is that his name?) look shell-shocked by the news as well.
Canadian here…stayed up most of the election because I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears.
I am so sad and depressed and crying to day, in sympathy for our American neighbours and what just happened and will happen,…… this is going to affect the entire world and I am afraid the trump is in so deep and has no clue about how the world runs…. and his cronies are no better….. a lot can happen in four years….. a lot of bad,,,, i truly worry about global devastation, environmentally-wise and friction with other countries…. sorry rambling, sad…. sad… hopeless.
I dont think the story about the presses collusion with a celebrity is the story here, I think it is just arrogance from the press. The used him for ratings because they thought he was a joke. They saw this guy as a court jester that could be joked about all day and used to cause havoc in the republican primaries. Then they saw him as a court jester that could be joked about all day and would never be taken seriously when compared to someone like Clinton. Once they did realize he had a legitimate chance after the emails and her campaigns daily “We cant even protect ourselves from Russia” reminder did not work in her favor the press ATTACKED almost at once. I know a couple Johnson supporters that flipped to Trump just because they hated the way the press acted towards him and felt bad for him. If the press had treated him like they should have (professionals) they would have destroyed him and Hillary would have been up against ratface or Jebzzzzzzzzz.
The MSM failed America and the world because they got cocky.
They are complicit in this mess.
I will never call this man my president. He disgusts me and the ppl who voted for him disgusts me. The fact that we elected Obama twice, had Hillary on the ticket and to now elect this man is so ass backwards and a disgrace!
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I subscribe to people. When it comes I’m throwing it in the trash without even reading it.
Cancel your subscription and tell them why.
There is so much work to do.
Sometimes I’m reminded of how heavy that burden is, how hard it is to fight against the onslaught of ignorance and hatred. How overwhelming and omnipresent it seems, how it seems that a change of public opinion is only possible when a generation dies out.
I’m not American, I’m not a person of colour, I can’t feel this as strongly as many of you do, and I’m devastated. It’s horrifying that so many people support this egoistic ignorant buffoon.
We still need to fight. We can’t give up. This just proves how easy it is to backslide.
If suffragette’s lived through being denied a vote, being denied safety, being denied personhood, we can push through this.
We have so many miles to go before we sleep.
Suffragettes didn’t have to contend with nuclear weapons.
Sorry. You were offering a positive message of hope and encouragement. Thank you. I just need to vent a bit.
No need to apologise, I get at least a tiny bit of that feel. When Canada elected Harper again in 2011 I felt this way. It was core shaking to realize most people support well worded xenophobia and sexism. That most people hate what is the slightest bit different. That was half a decade ago, and I thought with Obama the US would never have to deal with someone so backward and hateful. It turned out worse than anyone could have imagined.
The stakes are higher than ever, and I think that’s why this is so painfully disappointing. I don’t know about you, but I had hoped we, as humanity, as educated first world nations, had come farther than this.
It feels personal. It feels like America hates women. Hates gays and lesbians. It feels like America hates my black friends, my latin friends, my asian friends. It feels like America hates the people I have chosen as my family. I wish I could say something to take away the pain, but there’s no silver lining here. It’s just the reality of what we now have to deal with.
It doesn’t stop me from being incredibly sad though. I’m so sorry Lilac =(
Comet Sophie or two? You can have my last octopus if it helps.
Ok, I will probably get flak for it even here, but I feel like it’s the only place where I can even venture this, and at least it will be intelligent flak.
I’m a naturalized American, and I feel like this is not in the least bit surprising and that it is something that is the logical continuation of the very core American values, as many Americans, even Democrats, see them.
I think that your/our individualism and self-reliance worked great as long as you had virtually unlimited land and resources (there was an excellent blog post on that a few days ago), but now that resources are running out and land is all taken, you/we need to be a community, we need to think beyond our immediate and individual interests and we suck at that. And I think that, at the very core, THAT is the reason for everything: racism, xenophobia, misogyny. They can all be traced to the fact that people still think that to be a “good” American is to be self-reliant, and since that is getting harder and harder, the only way they know how to deal is by pushing down and out every Other, in order to keep what they have and their bragging rights.
I really feel like in order to bring real change, America needs to take a hard look at its very basic values: individualism, success at all cost, disdain for sharing (because communism)… Until we do, we’ll be stuck in a loop. We might scare up enough votes in 4-8 years to take back the White House, but what good does it do? Obama just spent 8 years of his life fighting for things that Trump will undo with a stroke of a pen.
As long as this guy is sitting in the White House, I will refer to him as The Cheeto…and I agree: we think Cheeto is bad? Well, Pence is even worse.
As long as this guy is sitting in the White House, I will refer to him as The Cheeto…and I agree: we think Trump is bad? Well, Pence is even worse.
And you can’t even hope for impeachment because Pence is actually worse–a true-blue social ideologue who believes in creationism and a young Earth.
Yes, some evangelicals justified voting for the orange Cheeto because they think God will strike him dead so Pence can be President.
I’ve just read everyone’s comments & it was very cathartic. My 14 yr old daughter broke down crying on election night. She wouldn’t stop refreshing CNN even tho I explained Hill’s possible paths to victory were gone. She stayed up till the wee hrs txting her friends who are all TERRIFIED. She explained in her close circle every one of her friends are either children of Mexican immigrants or African American or gay/bi/pansexual. She has only 2 good friends who are white but they’re not cis so none of her friends will be unaffected by a (gag)Trump presidency. They’ve been saying that there will be internment camps if they’re Muslim or Mexican, and if they’re black they believe it will be OK to kill them. I spoke to someone last night whose bff’s 1st grade son came home crying because the whole class told him he would be deported. This is so surreal. This is not my America. He is not my President.
Edit: Oh and what’s even worse is I brought her to vote with me & we went over the ballot together. She was so excited, but when we checked the polls she said “What’s even the point?” 🙁