"It was Donald Trump's decision to say, 'No, we are not going to relitigate these issues. We are not going to brag.' Every single thing that had to do with the old rhetoric was gone. He wants to be a great president. And he will be." --Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Fox News that Trump made a conscious decision to focus his speech on healing the country. 

Yet many of his more ambitious proposals will require cooperation from Congress. While he will likely enjoy a post-election honeymoon with congressional Republicans, a long-lasting romance is far from guaranteed, given his uneasy relationship with congressional leaders and some basic ideological differences he has with Republican orthodoxy.

Read an overview of Trump's top domestic policy plans, based on the sometimes vague details of his agenda, and their likelihood of success.   

U.S. stocks opened lower on Wednesday after Republican Donald Trump was elected 45th U.S. president, defeating heavily favored Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 25.55 points, or 0.14 percent, at 18,307.19, 

The S&P 500 .SPX was down 10.84 points, or 0.51 percent, at 2,128.72 

The Nasdaq composite .IXIC was down 41.65 points, or 0.8 percent, at 5,151.84.

PARIS, Nov 9 (Reuters) - France's far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen congratulated Donald Trump for his U.S. presidential election victory on Wednesday and said she hoped the same kind of upset would happen in France next year.

"Congratulations to the new president of the United States Donald Trump and to the free American people!" Le Pen, who will compete in France's presidential election six months from now, said on Twitter.

"What happened last night was not the end of the world, it was the end of a world," she later told reporters. "The Americans gave themselves a president of their choosing and not the one that the establishment wanted them to rubber-stamp."

Opinion polls show Le Pen likely to win the first round of French presidential elections next April but lose the second runoff round in May to whoever should be her opponent.

Her father Jean-Marie Le Pen,the party founder who reached the second round of French presidential elections in 2002, tweeted:"Today the United States, tomorrow France."

France's National Front has been building support for its anti-immigration, anti-European Union stance in recent years.

Marine Le Pen argued that Trump's victory is part of a much wider revolt by voters against political elites worldwide, not only in France.

The cover of Time magazine is seen at a news stand at Pennsylvania Station in New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

“The media is always taking Trump literally. It never takes him seriously, but it always takes him literally,” said (Peter) Thiel, (the silicon valley billionaire) said. Journalists wanted to know exactly how he would deport that many undocumented immigrants, or exactly how Trump would rid the world of the Islamic State. We wanted details.

But a lot of voters think the opposite way: They take Trump seriously but not literally.

They realize, Thiel said, that Trump doesn’t really plan to build a wall. “What they hear is, ‘We’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy.’ ”

Trump, quite apparently, captured the anger that Americans were feeling about issues such as trade and immigration.

And although many journalists and many news organizations did stories about the frustration and disenfranchisement of these Americans, we did not take them seriously enough.

Margaret Sullivan, "The media didn't want to believe Trump could win. So they looked the other way," Washington Post.

Hillary Clinton's motorcade is en route to her speech following her Election Night defeat to Donald Trump. We will have the live video of her speech pinned to the top of the live blog.