Following an incredibly tight race between him and Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald J Trump has been elected as the 47th President of the United States becoming the first president to serve non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland .

As of Nov 6. Trump holds 312 electoral college votes compared to Harris’ 226, a lead of 86. Following the wins in most key swing states including Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Trump was able to capture 50.3 percent of the popular vote (75,089,983 votes) with Harris trailing at 48.1 percent (71,790,755  votes).

The reality star-turned-President has had a tough road back to the White House, with multiple legal challenges, bans from social media websites, and an assassination attempt or two in the intervening years since his loss in 2020.

He has faced criminal charges for several cases including his hush money trial that has led to 34 criminal counts of falsifying corporate documents in a New York trial. The trial focused on payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during his presidential run in 2016.

Sentencing for the trial was scheduled to begin on Nov. 26.

Said legal challenges now enter a strange legal territory, with a July Supreme Court ruling declaring the president immune to prosecution for “official acts.”

Trump seemed to hone in on economic issues on his return to the campaign trail, with a dash of making up lies about immigrants. 

Trump intends to impose a tariff on imported goods, according to reports from the Washington Post in February of this year. He wanted to have a tariff upwards of 60 percent.

Trump’s approach to tariff has received criticism from economists who have claimed that it could end up costing consumers

“We find that imposing a 20 percent across-the-board tariff combined with a 60 percent tariff on China would cost a typical US household in the middle of the income distribution more than $2,600 a year,” said the report by the Peterson Institute for International Economics from August of this year. 

Additionally Trump has taken an even stronger stance than his previous term on the topic of immigration.

“That’s why, to keep our family safe, the Republican platform promises to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country,” he stated in his speech at the RNC in July.

During his debate with Harris, Trump perpetuated baseless and racist claims made by his running mate in the days prior. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”