Donald Trump has no experience in government.
He has openly derided US democracy as rigged, routinely peddled falsehoods and conspiracy theories and even brags about assaulting women.
He has undermined the central pillar of western security by raising doubts about US commitments to NATO. He says he's an admirer of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
His talk of ripping up trade deals and leaving the World Trade Organisation has economists so alarmed some have predicted a return to the global depression of the 1930s.
He has no formal qualification for office. His temperament causes deep concern. He has been accused by members of his own party of "textbook racism".
And he is now America's president-elect. What could possibly go wrong?
Video: A look back at Trump's election campaign promisesDonald Trump will be a fundamental break with previous American presidents because he does not accept the principle that has underpinned global order since the Second World War. That what is good for the world is good for America.
It has been the basis of American leadership for seven decades.
Instead, Donald Trump says America must now look after itself. He says that globalisation and international trade have cost American jobs.
Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf told Sky News: "In essence Trump wishes to tear up the economic and security order underpinned by the US and has nothing to replace it with.
"I am concerned we are moving into international anarchy, economic and political."
Donald Trump appears to want to retire America as a superpower at a time when an unstable world needs firm leadership.
Political scientist Ian Bremmer told Sky News: "This is really the end of the Pax Americana that we have been talking about since World War Two.
"It's become really a G-zero world, not G7, not G20, one where there isn't global leadership.
"The US won't play that role but no one else is capable of it."
World leaders are spouting the usual congratulations. What else can they do? Whatever path America takes under Donald Trump its partners will need to work with him.
But in reality there is deep international alarm about the outcome of this election. Allies and rivals are going through the motions wishing America's new president good luck. It is the rest of the world that will need it most.
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