In the eye of the storm, Trump’s not for turning

Will the president-elect run his White House in the same cavalier manner as his divisive election campaign?

US president-elect Donald Trump answers journalists questions during a press conference in New York Picture: Don Emmert/Getty

Of all the plaintive and pointless questions that have been asked about president-elect Donald Trump, ‘When will he start acting like the president?’ is perhaps the most plangent. Since June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump first announced his candidacy in the lobby of his flagship building on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, that question has gone through many evolutions – even if the man who will become America’s next president has not.

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