Cheers and dismay mark Trump's win

The triumph of Donald Trump in getting elected as the 47th president of the United States will be greeted with cheers and dismay both across America and here at home.

The election was a close-run thing... but a lot closer than the clever anti-Trump pundits called it.

The reality is that the majority of Americans want to buy what Trump is selling.

But a lot of what he was touting on the campaign trail - considered extreme by his opponents and welcomed by his supporters - will probably not come to pass, at least in the form he was punting it on public platforms.

Trump, like any other politician, is pragmatic.

And one of the things he has realised is that this election campaign was the most divisive in American history.

In his first speech, as he was being recognised the winner, he spoke in reconciliatory tones, of healing the country, which he acknowledged was "divided".