Donald Trump steals Conor McGregor’s fire

It’s hard silenced, New York. But, on the early morning commute to downtown Manhattan on Wednesday, you could mark that as another odds-scorching upset for the man who somehow, someway will become leader of this land in the much too near future.

Donald Trump’s name has quite literally hung heavy over this city for decades but never as suffocatingly as it did the morning after an election that can never be forgotten... no matter how hard so many tried. Grand Central Station, Times Square, Broadway, they were all a little too eerie, a little too quiet as life tried to get going with going on.

The night before, screaming updates, flashing graphics and startling statistics had told the world that America’s most populous city is politically, culturally, definitively removed from its heartlands and so much of the country at large. The sound of silence in New York on Wednesday confirmed as much.