What will Trump do in power? – podcast

Donald Trump won a decisive victory in the US presidential election on Tuesday night, becoming the first man in 150 years to have been voted out as president and then win office again.

The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, explains to Lucy Hough how the night unfolded at Trump’s victory rally in Florida, and how the former president even managed to win the popular vote after months of polls predicting a knife-edge contest.

Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail was radical and extreme, promising – for example – to deport millions of migrants. So what will he actually do in office, and who will he appoint to achieve his aims?

And, with his long-held slogan of “America First”, what will Trump’s return to the White House mean for the world order?

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