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Thousands take to the streets to protest Trump win

They gathered near the White House, disheartened and dismayed.

"Not my President, not today," many across the nation yelled.

In cities from Boston to Los Angeles, thousands of demonstrators gathered Wednesday night in protest of election results that mean the billionaire real estate developer will be the next president.

As many as 5,000 people were at a protest in New York, police estimated. Among the issues being yelled about outside Trump Tower were immigration and other controversial topics from the campaign.

What Trump has said about the world

After his projected victory in the US presidential election, Trump will now represent the United States on the world stage. But how will the world greet him?

Here's a rundown of Trump's past comments:

 

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5 surprising lessons from Trump's astonishing win

Trump's defeat of Hillary Clinton turned on its head years of wisdom about how campaigns operate, how America's demographics are changing and how a controversial nominee can affect down-ballot candidates.

Here are the five biggest surprises of Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning:

 

1) Trump won

The polls were wrong. Projection models were wrong. Veterans of previous presidential campaigns were wrong.

Trump's victory is one of the most stunning upsets in American political history.

Donald Trump victory shocks world, pleases Putin

Within hours of Trump's acceptance speech, Putin congratulated him and flagged Moscow's willingness to fully restore ties with its old Cold War foe, currently at loggerheads over how to deal with the Syria conflict.

Russia featured heavily in a heated campaign period, with Trump praising Putin as a firm leader as US officials accused Moscow of meddling by leaking hacked Democratic emails to undermine Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The moment America knew

Where were you, we'll ask each other, days or years from now. Where were you when Donald J. Trump confounded pundits and upended projections to become the President-Elect of the United States?

It will be hard to forget such a moment, or the pivotal images that have immortalized it.

The emotion was instant. You could see it in the crowds dotted with bright red hats who cheered, sobbed and embraced at Trump's election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown hotel.

It was a moment of pure elation.

For them, it was a moment of pure desolation.

Trump victory shocks world

Trump's election as the 45th president of the United States rocked Washington's political establishment and sent shock waves overseas, as US allies and foes alike scrambled to understand how the real-estate mogul and political outsider had pulled off an upset victory and would change their ties to the world's most powerful country.

South Korea called a meeting of its National Security Council as Japan's top financial officials huddled amid a 1,000-point plunge in the Nikkei stock market. Markets in the UK and France also dropped.

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The billionaire real estate magnate and former reality star needed an almost perfect run through the swing states -- and he got it, winning Ohio, North Carolina and Florida.

The Republican swept to victory over Hillary Clinton in the ultimate triumph for a campaign that repeatedly shattered the conventions of politics to pull off a remarkable upset. Clinton conceded to Trump in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Speaking at a victory party in New York, Trump was gracious toward Clinton and called for unity.