Disruptive Donald, or is he really?


(FILES) This file photo taken on February 19, 2016 shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina.Donald Trump assumes the mantle of the US presidency under an unprecedented cloud of litigation that could weigh on his ability to govern after this weeks shock election.Just as the newly minted president-elect visited the White House and Capitol Hill on November 10, 2016, two thousand miles away his lawyers were in a California courtroom battling over evidence and jury instructions in a fraud trial over the defunct Trump University, which stands accused of defrauding students. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON

I WAS going to write about disruptive technology but the whole week was taken up with the disruption that Donald J. Trump did in upsetting the US establishment by winning the Presidential elections.

The establishment was so confident of a Hillary win that the New York Times predicted 85% chance of her winning and the Economist magazine showed a cover picture with Hillary as America and the rest of the world’s best hope.

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