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Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 03:15 PM Nov 2020

New York says good riddance to native son Donald Trump

Joyous New Yorkers poured into the streets Saturday after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win the White House, erupting in celebration as the business mogul and former star of The Apprentice was told: "You're fired."

Revelers cheered across a city that has sparred for years with the president who rose to prominence in the New York real estate world.

A reliable Democratic stronghold, the US financial capital's disdain for the Republican's conservative policies was no secret.

On an unseasonably balmy fall day Manhattan residents yelled and clapped, some waving flags and others banging pots from their balconies as car horns punctuated the applause.

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- 'Queens man evicted' -

The homepage of the Queens Daily Eagle, a local newspaper from the borough where Trump was raised, sent off the brash celebrity-turned-erratic president with a wry wisecrack: "Queens man evicted."

"A 74-year-old Jamaica Estates developer has less than three months left at his current address after Americans overwhelmingly voted him out of the White House," the paper wrote.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201107-new-york-says-good-riddance-to-native-son-donald-trump-1

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