Given the choice between the most qualified candidate for President in the country's history and a known charlatan, con-man, failed businessman, climate change-denier, misogynist, admitted sexual abuser, racist, Islamophobe, probable useful idiot of Russian spies, and re-Tweeter of neonazis and fascist scum, America picked the one with a penis.

Despite his conciliatory words in his acceptance speech at some hotel in New York City while hooting and hollering white males bellowed in the background, the danger is clear.

The short-fingered vulgarian President-elect has promised to get even with opponents, to jail Hillary Clinton, to back out of the Paris Climate Treaty (which will cause a chain reaction of other countries bailing out and coaling it up, therefore exasperating man-made global warming), institute deportation squads to go door-to-door at homes and businesses to seek out undocumented immigrants and workers, to somehow build a wall along the Mexican border that Mexico would pay for (even though the Mexican Peso has tanked because of Trump's win), to unconstitutionally ban Muslims from immigrating, to turn his back on NATO allies and Japan in the face of Russian and Chinese aggression, to start a trade war with China. 

Oh, and he has also threatened the indiscriminate use of nuclear weapons.

And without America holding the high ground, what will happen in Africa - where US pressure has put a lid on movements to pass legislation to put LGBT people to death?  Who will hold back the "strongman" leaders, such as Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hungary's Viktor Orban, or the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte?

Do you get the feeling that there are already authoritarian types and demagogues in Australia that may feel as if the shackles are off, and will take advantage?

Good luck, world.  We're on our own.