On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Wisconsin carried the former president over the finish line in the race to 270 Electoral College votes, making him the first convicted felon elected to the nation's highest office, and only the second commander in chief elected to serve two non-consecutive terms.
At 78 years old, the Republican will be the 40, will preside over the Senate as the country's first millennial vice president.
In defeating Harris, 60, Trump blocked her historic bid to become the nation's first female president, first Asian American president and second Black president.
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Trump ran an antagonistic third White House campaign, positioning himself as a scorned ex-president whose fall from grace could only be explained by a vengeful "deep state."
During Trump built on his longtime strategy of division. Sharing few details about his policy goals, he instead urged voters to throw out the standards by which presidential candidates have been scored for centuries.
He reframed his history-making conviction on 34 felonies as a courageous feat, dismissing mounds of evidence to spin a narrative that he was a heroic survivor of unfair persecution.