According to the CNN book written by Thomas Lake -- “Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything,” Donald Trump had told Chris Christie that he would endorse his campaign for president, and that Trump didn’t think he’d last past October 2015. This is according to a Christie advisor who wasn’t named, so that he could speak freely about the behind-the-scenes maneuvers.

Former Vermont Gov. and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, has thrown his hat into the ring for the chairmanship of the DNC. Following a disastrous election cycle for the Democrats, a realignment was definitely in order.

Trump left the White House after his meeting with President Obama without notifying the press corps of his travel plans. Wolf Blitzer of CNN got angry: “It is truly unacceptable. The president-elect and the president. A pool of reporters should be with them on a trip like that.”

Protests sparked across the nation following Donald Trump successful election to the office president of the United States. In true Trump form, he immediately blamed the press for inciting the protests: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!”

Does Donald Trump’s success show that Silicon Valley is out of step with the rest of the country? That’s what many of its leaders seem to believe. “Across the technology industry, the reaction to Donald J. Trump’s election to the presidency was beyond grim,” Farhad Manjoo writes in The New York Times. “There was a sense that the industry had missed something fundamental about the fears and motivations of the people who use its products, and that the miscalculation would cost the industry, and the world, greatly.”

In a huge show of protest against the election of Donald Trump, demonstrations erupted across the country. Protests were reported in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Washington. There were also marches in cities in red states, such as: Atlanta, Dallas, Omaha and Kansas City. A common chant was: “Not my president.”

Editorial teams from around the world have weighed in on the election of Donald Trump. Hispanic and South American newspapers take a somber tone, as they point to Trump’s unpredictability and the dangers it poses on the global scene. The Financial Times of Britain, on a different note, seems to hope Trump will change his ways as president.

In what promises to be an historic meeting, Donald Trump meets with President Obama at the White House today to discuss the transfer of power. Obama is “quite sincere about fulfilling the basic responsibility that he has to the American people and our democracy to ensure a smooth transition to the next presidency,” said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary.

TechCrunch thinks about what a Donald Trump presidency means for the tech industry. “The short-term prospects for the tech economy and Silicon Valley are grim, according to economists with knowledge of the Trump platform,” it writes. “While Trump was vague about his platform on the campaign trail, the broad strokes with which he painted his economic policy don’t bode well for venture capitalists or the broader tech community.”

The demographic changes that many assumed would block a Trump win did not translate into the votes that were needed at the ballot box. Women, Millennials, Hispanics and African Americans did not support Clinton to the extent that was expected on November 8. Much more information on this will come in the next few days, as we determine exactly what the 2016 American electorate looked like.