At about 7.30pm on Friday, three days after he clinched his re-election as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump walked into the soft, golden light of his Mar-a-Lago club bearing a magnanimous smile, and basked in a wave of applause from around the dining room.
Under the crystal chandeliers, frescoed walls and marble pillars sat a coterie of those closest to the man who was, again, about to be the leader of the free world. Eric and Lara Trump, his son and daughter-in-law (she is co-chair of the Republican National Committee), were celebrating their anniversary. Roger Stone, one of his confidants and a fellow convicted felon, sat at a table with Tulsi Gabbard, a reformed Democrat and part of the transition team.
