The President, sometimes referred to as the commander-in-chief, runs the United States of America. As you may know (and this will obviously change over the years), Barack Obama was the President for the past eight years, and he was a very popular president. He was the only black president ever, causing worries, but he was amazing. We had the next election. Hillary Clinton did in fact win the popular votes, however Donald Trump won the electoral votes. Electoral votes are voted by a group of people called the Electoral College. It is not a 'college' as in the University of Delaware or Georgia Tech, but this group of 538 people are the voters that really count. In the end, it's up to them to decide who the President is going to be. Donald Trump was chosen as the President-Elect, because he got more than 270 electoral votes. He is now the president.
The President-Elect is the successor of the President as soon as his/her term is over and he/she has set his/her affairs together. A term is four years long. The only two reasons a President should not finish a term is if he/she dies or is fired. President Barack Obama is in his last days of his second term. A President can only serve for two terms.
Not to bash Donald Trump or any of the past Presidents, but some people, including me, believe that there shouldn't be an Electoral College. Why? Because there are only 538 Electoral voters, and most of them are in the bigger states such as California and Florida. Most of the cities in those two states supported Mr. Trump, as did most of their Electoral voters, which doesn't seem very fair. There's no need to do this now and re-count the votes, but we should keep this in mind the next time we vote.
Here's a list of the Presidents in the order that they served:
1.) George Washington
2.) John Adams
3.) Thomas Jefferson
4.) James Madison
5.) James Monroe
6.) John Quincy Adams
7.) Andrew Jackson
8.) Martin van Buren
9.) William Harrison
10.) John Tyler
11.) James K. Polk
12.) Zachary Taylor
13.) Millard Fillmore
14.) Franklin Pierce
15.) James Buchanan
16.) Abraham Lincoln
17.) Andrew Johnson
18.) Ulysses S. Grant
19.) Rutherford B. Hayes
20.) James A. Garfield
21.) Chester A. Arthur
22.) Grover Cleveland (first term)
23.) Benjamin Harrison
24.) Grover Cleveland (second term)
25.) William McKinley
26.) Theodore Roosevelt
27.) William Howard Taft
28.) Woodrow Wilson
29.) Warren G. Harding
30.) Calvin Coolidge
31.) Herbert Hoover
32.) Franklin D. Roosevelt
33.) Harry S. Truman
34.) Dwight D. Eisenhower
35.) John F. Kennedy
36.) Lyndon B. Johnson
37.) Richard M. Nixon
38.) Gerald R. Ford
39.) James Earl Carter
40.) Ronald Reagan
41.) George H.W. Bush
42.) William J. Clinton
43.) George W. Bush
44.) Barack Obama
45.) Donald Trump
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