Donald Trump spent Wednesday morning recharging his batteries and getting used to his status as president elect by receiving and returning calls from world leaders, according to a source in Palm Beach, Florida.
With Vice President Kamala Harris expected to concede defeat with a speech later in the day, he cut a low profile after his stunning return to power.
His senior staff, family, and friends partied at Mar-a-Lago until 5:30am, celebrating his improbably comeback.
‘They are letting him make the phone calls he needs to make,’ said an insider.
‘That’s the important thing, right? He has to talk to world leaders, accept their congratulations and hear what their priorities are. And that’s what he’s doing right now.’
Donald Trump took the stage at 2:26 am on Wednesday morning to declare victory
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the first to speak with the president elect.
‘The conversation was warm and cordial,’ Netanyahu’s office said.
Trump took the stage well after 2am on Tuesday morning to declare victory and one of the most extraordinary resurrections in American political history.
He had been counted out after losing the 2020 election, after his supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6., and after being convicted in a New York court of business fraud.
Yet, he became the first Republican to win the popular national vote since George W. Bush as he connected with voters, and pulled in enough black, and Hispanic support to defeat Harris.
Her supporters at a party in Washington D.C. were told to go home on Tuesday night. And she is now expected to deliver her concession speech later Wednesday.
It was a bitterly disappointing night for her and her supporters, after most polls suggested she had a narrow lead.
Trump was holed up at his Mar-a-Lago headquarters on Wednesday morning
However, a DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll forecast a Trump win, giving him a three-point advantage.
On Tuesday night, his campaign team exuded quiet, nervous optimism that turned to euphoria as first North Carolina, then Georgia, and then Pennsylvania, the biggest battleground prize of all, fell his way.
‘We made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,’ Trump said when he took the stage at a West Palm Beach convention center.
‘And it is now clear that we’ve achieved the most incredible political thing.’
It follows a punishing end to the campaign for the 78-year-old. Trump did not take the stage at his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, until after midnight on Monday.
And then addressed supporters in the early hours of Wednesday.
Attention will now turn to the transition, and building out his cabinet-in-waiting and White House staff.
He has tasked friends and family with leading the effort. His sons Donald Jr and Eric have key roles, alongside his running mate JD Vance.
The transition co-chairs are Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive who served in his first administration.
They have 75-days to build a team before Inauguration Day on January 20.
