Real MAG ISSUE 4 | Page 8

AMERICA TRUMPED....

"Never Confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This is not a political magazine and politics are messy but were just going to leave this here…”

November 9th, 2016 in the early hours America announced Donald Trump as the winner of the 2016 Presidential Election. Donald Trump, the sleazy businessman who ran against what some say is a less- evil in Hilary Clinton, actually won the election. Although Trump’s victory was quickly surrounded by confusion , controversy, and anger. Trump who would win the electoral college, calculated to have 306 votes to rival Clinton’s 232, needing only 270 to secure the victory. Clinton who would win the popular vote in a landslide was on the end of a long ruling principal, the electoral college.