At about 17 GMT London time, perhaps one of the most unlikely man to be elected President will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
Donald Trump, a 70-year-old New Yorker and real estate mogul who is reputed to have built a multi-billion-dollar empire from a few millions he lend from the father in the 1970s quite unexpectedly won the 2016 US Presidential election against the Democratic Party’s candidate, Hillary Clinton after earlier defeating 17 other contenders to clinch his own Republican Party’s nominations for President.
 Now having followed the Trump campaign to its end, aware of the controversies that rocked both sides of the campaigns and most of all, the somewhat high-priced promises that accompanied the Trump camp such as creating 25 million jobs in 10years, doubling the economic growth and of course, the much contested 'wall’.  But what is more alarming of the incoming US President is not necessarily the ‘mixed hope’ elicited by his “make America great again message†but the fear associated with it: locally, that over twenty million Americans may lose their health insurance coverage if ‘Obamacare’ is replied without a better replacement; internationally, that trade relations between the US and other countries ranging from Mexico, China and the more vulnerable African countries may deteriorate significantly; that millions of undocumented immigrants from around the world may lose their honest means of livelihood and possibly thrown out of America without a chance to work their way to citizenship, the list is almost endless.
However, whether it’s hope or fear for oneself, family or a love one is what is running through one’s mind now at the thought of an incoming US President whose electoral victory disclosure alone, had the US stock index drop, one should indeed give it the ‘benefit of doubt’, a chance for the oldest man to be elected to the highest office in “the free world†,as President Kennedy put it, to prove himself and to an anxious world that he is not as bad as the cynics claim after all.