However, he won the electoral college votes and that made him the 45th president.
Since the election, the president-elect has thrown out the rule book and ruffled a few feathers in the process. A case in point is his friendly chat with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, upsetting China, which does not recognise Taiwan.
But it is his use of Twitter that has stirred the most interest. With about 16m followers, he has used this as an effective way of communicating directly with Americans.
However, it has revealed that he is still as sensitive as ever and that nothing is too small for him to go after.
The comedy show Saturday Night Live has regularly lampooned him, with Alec Baldwin doing a very good impersonation of him. This has incensed him and caused him to rant on Twitter. There have been other examples as well which suggest that his temperament is not quite presidential.
It will be interesting to see how Trump handles the demands of what surely must be one of the most difficult jobs in the world.
One thing you should expect to see is a blurring of the lines between the Trump organisation and the presidency. Let's just hope that it does not reach a point where we cannot tell the two apart.