I'm no fan of Mr Trump, not now or when he ran the apprentice! But he won the election fair and square, albeit with a minority of the popular vote. Therefore, ought to be given his chance.

Should he fail to deliver for anybody other than D Trump inc, he and a good many republicans, will hear those dreadful words, you're fired!

Should that day dawn four short years from now, let's hope our world is not already a smoking ruin!

It's hard for a man with an IQ of 140 to be a buffoon, sells, unless he paid a doppelganger to stand in his shoes and take the test for him?

Where were you and what were you doing Christmas of 55?

And don't tell me. You wore a red suit and drove a reindeer powered sleigh through an event horizon, so you got back before you started, only a thousand years older? But with all your prezzies delivered?

Some folks will believe the most risible rubbish!

It's amazing what you can buy with enough money nowadays?
An exam or three? Even an election perhaps?
Alan B.

Alan B

If you break down that popular vote, Clinton's majority came mostly from the populous states of California and New York. Unlike in Australia, one of the few advantages of the US electoral system is that it balances the skewed metropolitan-regional divide.

diver dan

'If Trump stays true to his word to make America great again, it is bound to be a rough ride.'

He can't make America great again because it was never great to start with. That rubbish is all part of its manifest destiny mythology.

The US cannot hope to ever become a halfway decent nation until it learns to become just another country, instead of the corrupt global bully and poverty-denialist that it really is. I can't see someone like Trump abandoning that principle. I'm sure he'll shake up the smug neo-liberal status quo and I admire his straight-from-the-hip style. But he's just another trust-fund All-American rich kid.

America is funny in that there's a level of pomp; dancing girls and marching bands.
Many people look to celebrities, but they aren't really much more knowledgeable or worldly than anyone else.
Honestly, in my opinion most actors seem to be a bunch of hive-minded progressives little different to feminists.

Who cares what the hell she thinks.

She's just an actress trying to get in front of the camera again, attempting another award-winning performance and to stay relevant.
Interesting (but not surprising) that Obama gave her a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.

I love it when empty windbags from the left continue to throw tantrums. They really do show their true colours. Wasn't Streep one who cheered for the Polish rapist.

Streep was virtue signalling.

However, there is no virtue in shameless self-promotion and risking social divisions through non-acceptance of the outcome of the democratic poll.

Louis

You are correct in pointing out that Meryl Streep does not really know what she is talking about.

The real problem is that Donald Trump does not do so either and he is now the US president-elect -see Preliminary Conclusions About Donald Trump's Policy Agenda (http://cpds.apana.org.au/Teams/Articles/globalization.htm#Preliminary_Conclusion)