In his victory speech delivered early this morning at 2:30 a.m., President-elect Donald Trump vowed he had no intention of starting a war, but instead would stop them. “We want, we want a strong and powerful military and ideally, we don’t have to use it,” he said. He recalled that during his first term in office, “we had no wars. Except we defeated ISIS, we defeated ISIS in record time…but we had no wars. They said, ‘He will start a war.’ I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
Trump also pointed to what he said was the “historic” nature of his campaign, comprised of “young and old, men and women, rural and urban. And we had them all helping us tonight. When you think, I mean, I was looking at it. I was watching it. They had some great analysis of the people that voted for us…They came from all quarters. Union, nonunion, African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Arab American, Muslim American, we had everybody… It was a historic realignment.” He vowed this coalition will “unlock America’s glorious destiny…It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite, and we’re gonna try.”
