In Kentucky, it took Christine Tran a full week before “Trump is president” was not her first thought upon waking up in the morning. “I left the luau and went back to our room and cried,” he said. Tony Doran, a married gay man from New Jersey, was on a tropical vacation when he heard the news. Then she cried herself to sleep, “thinking about all the people who would die and suffer and become fearful and hated and hateful unnecessarily under a Trump presidency.” She blamed herself for not volunteering more. Caffrey yelled at her husband for being too confident Hillary Clinton would win. As state after state flipped to red, her friends left quietly, one by one. On election night in her home in Chicago, she invited friends over and told them all to bring champagne. “I feel like I’m in an alternative universe that was imagined and made fun of by late-night comedians before the election.” Every time Genevieve Caffrey hears the words President Trump, “I feel like I was physically punched in the stomach,” she says.
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