When Donald Trump won the US presidential election in 2024, he had 76 days to juggle a $6 trillion budget, hire 4,000 political appointees, and move into the White House, all before inauguration day.

Becoming US president is a crash course of classified secrets, nuclear codes and White House living – all while the outgoing president still holds the power.

So how does it all happen?

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