Donald Trump is an affront to many things. Including the PR trade, journalism and the polling industry.

All three look a bit silly today. Some are back-tracking, some are rewriting and some have gone sensibly quiet.

Trump burns through PR advisers like it’s permanent Guy Fawkes night, since he doesn’t agree with any of them.

He does the odd good stunt, makes the odd good joke and is very famous.

Apart from that, all that he does are things flaks would tell him not to do. He won, not in spite of ignoring professional advice, but because he does.

Poor Rory Stewart has admitted to being completely wrong, and is having to live with the suggestion that if you have a posh accent, you can succeed no matter how big an idiot you are, at least in England.

Journalists were miles off.

All of the major US TV networks, the UK press and the mainstream media in general pushed the idea that it was going to be very close.

It wasn’t.

Bill Ackman, the hedge fund manager, tweets that the “election should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth…This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information.”

As for pollsters. Christ.

Famed Iowa expert Ann Selzer turned heads and reassured Democrats when she said Kamala Harris would win the state, against expectations.

She is now “reviewing data” with “hopes of learning why that happened”.

Since pollsters keep having to do this, it seems clear the answers aren’t in their data in the first place.

Who else has to do a backflip? Well, the legal profession and the banks, presumably, to whom he owes billions.

Most legal actions against him look even more politically motivated than they did anyway.

Wall Street can’t make a sitting President bankrupt. So they’ll go back to playing extend and pretend, cutting him loans no one else would get, if only out of embarrassment.

Who else was wrong?

Despite the Puerto Rico “gags” plenty of Latinos voted for Trump, which suggests people aren’t as precious about their group identities as the Left thinks.

The Guardian can get cross about this all it wants, but it is mostly talking to itself.

Since Trump won twice against plainly much better qualified women (Clinton then Harris) and lost to a man (Biden) who already looked doddery, it is hard not to think there is an inherent level of sexism within the US electorate.

They’d vote for a black man, Obama, but not a woman of any colour, it seems.

What you do about that is beyond me. If you want to find out, don’t ask a newspaper.

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