Trump attended a lunch at his hotel’s presidential ballroom attended by leading Republicans, including some of his cabinet selections. Photograph: James Lawler Duggan/ReutersIn an operatic tableau, standing nearby will be Hillary Clinton, the candidate Trump threatened to jail during the campaign. Trump will become the first US president in the 240-year-old republic who has never served in the military or held public office. Despite the rituals, Trump may also set about reversing some of Obama’s executive actions within his first hours or days in office. Trump was best known in the US as the host of The Apprentice when, in June 2015, he launched his longshot campaign at Trump Tower in New York, theatrically descending on an escalator.

Source: The Guardian January 19, 2017 19:33 UTC