Donald Trump shocked the political world when he was elected as the 45th President of the United States on Nov. 8. President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Trump during a Nov. 10 meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. Below, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and Trump, then the Republicans’ nominee for president, smile during the 71st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan on Oct. 20. Cardinal Dolan says he hopes promises made by Trump, now president-elect, on life issues will become his administration’s policies and that the pro-life community will hold him accountable to those promises.