6 Things Nobody Thought Would Ever Happen… But They Did

Donald Trump Became President of the United States

In 2015, when Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, the political establishment laughed. He was a reality TV star with no political experience, and his rhetoric was considered too extreme for mainstream America. Pollsters gave him a single-digit chance of winning the Republican nomination, let alone the presidency. On election night 2016, as the results came in, news anchors were visibly stunned. The man who was supposed to be a joke candidate became the 45th president of the United States. Political scientists, pollsters, and pundits have been rethinking their entire profession ever since.