Donald Trump's 2024 election victory marks several historical milestones, though it also denied US Vice President Kamala Harris the chance to make history as the nation’s first Black and South Asian woman president.
At 78, Trump becomes the oldest person to be elected to the US presidency. When he is sworn in on January 20, 2025, he will be a few months older than Joe Biden at his 2020 inauguration. His running mate, 40-year-old JD Vance, will become the third-youngest vice president in US history.
Trump's win also makes him the second US president to secure two non-consecutive terms. He follows in the footsteps of Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president from 1885 to 1889, and then again as the 24th president from 1893 to 1897.
In another unprecedented development, Trump is poised to become the first US president with a felony conviction. In May, a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony charges related to his efforts to influence the 2016 election with a hush money payment to a pornographic actress.
Additionally, Trump remains the only president in US history to have been impeached twice, although he was acquitted by the Senate in each case.
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