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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Emma Brockes

Digested week: Trump-voting trad wives and the fabulously monstrous Martha Stewart

Donald Trump smirks on stage with his palms in the air as Melania Trump looks on, smiling and clapping. Several US flags are draped behind them
Trump palms out: ‘First to the gulag: everyone who said I have small hands.’ Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty

Monday

Looking back to Monday, the world seemed a quaint place – but by the end of the week it had become a lot darker. On Tuesday night, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, having served as the 45th (Grover Cleveland set the precedent for serving two non-consecutive terms in the White House), and in the first 48 hours there were new norms and proprieties to straighten out. For example: was it productive in the aftermath of the election to call the 72 million Americans who voted for Trump a bunch of idiots?

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