The best Twitter reactions to Donald Trump’s victory
Twitter is either a place you love to be on election night, or downright hate to be.
As the results rolled in and the tables turned, social media was providing endless sources of amusement for those who decided to stay up and see history made.
Donald Trump stayed offline, but recently has sent his first tweet since winning, and has even updated his bio and cover photo too.
Such a beautiful and important evening! The forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again. We will all come together as never before
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2016
Lots of Brits are keen to show the similarities between this, and the UK's Brexit result in June. 2016, it's been quite a year…
https://twitter.com/MikePattinson/status/796248025760989184
Some are keen to remind The Donald of words he previously said…
https://twitter.com/SajTheOne/status/796294312757788672
Others were happy at the latest Katie Hopkins news…
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/672742991841333248
Has the world gone a bit mad?
I've genuinely just seen a woman buy a burger and put mayonnaise sauce on the top of the bun? #trump
— Joe Wilkinson (@gillinghamjoe) November 9, 2016
I guess this is one way of looking at it?
https://twitter.com/IwasmadeintheAM/status/796299956688666624
SPOOKY!
https://twitter.com/notezatall/status/796313934370406400
I am told that a £5 treble on Leicester, Brexit and President Trump would have returned £12.5 million.
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) November 9, 2016
This was all of us who stayed up…
Barron Trump is up past his bedtime https://t.co/RQWe9AZDEw pic.twitter.com/kr73BaMs8B
— New York Post (@nypost) November 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/SooFunnyPost/status/796310140131639296
https://twitter.com/RonWeasleyMe/status/796273549669466113
Brexit, Trump, Bake Off leaving the BBC – 2016, a year of shocks…
— Countryside (@NFUCountryside) November 9, 2016
But this was nice…
we should be careful
of each other, we should be kind
while there is still time.Larkin pic.twitter.com/tksCTEAmOt
— The Poetry Society (@PoetrySociety) November 9, 2016
Oh, but then we had…
BREAKING: Canada's immigration and citizenship site has crashed.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 9, 2016
It sure is a long year though…
[David Bowie & Prince die]
[Brexit passes, Vine is shut down]
The World: "please… let us rest…"
2016: "…just one more thing"
— ricky montgomery (@rohmontgomery) November 9, 2016