Reign of Donald Trump is here and we will need to be ready for worse to come

In the space of a short few months we have had the double blow of Trump and Brexit, writes Alison O’Connor

IN THE run up to the vote in the US on Tuesday I rang an old friend of mine in Boston. I was looking for re-assurance really on the presidential race. She gave it to me saying there was no way Donald Trump would win. “I was so worried myself,” she told me. “I visited my psychic, but she’s certain Trump won’t win. Plus she spoken to lots of other psychics too and they are all saying the same thing.”

Around 3am on Wednesday morning as I sat in my sitting room watching CNN, feeling increasingly stressed, I texted her to say big changes were on the way not least that she needed to find herself a new psychic. It was a much needed moment of levity as the horror unfolded.