president-elect
noun
: a person who has been elected president but who has not officially become president yet
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But Comey was now on the record with Trump saying that the president-elect was not under investigation.
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Byron York, The Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2025
Trump has attended the Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, multiple UFC events, a LIV Golf tournament, the FIFA Club World Cup final, the US Open men’s tennis final, and a Yankees-Detroit Tigers baseball game in 2025 and attended the Army-Navy football game in December 2024 as president-elect.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
And in his first meeting with Trump − when briefing the president-elect at the beginning of 2017 – Comey was getting flashbacks.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election with a plot prosecutors say included plans to assassinate the then president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
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Byron York, The Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2025
Trump has attended the Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, multiple UFC events, a LIV Golf tournament, the FIFA Club World Cup final, the US Open men’s tennis final, and a Yankees-Detroit Tigers baseball game in 2025 and attended the Army-Navy football game in December 2024 as president-elect.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
And in his first meeting with Trump − when briefing the president-elect at the beginning of 2017 – Comey was getting flashbacks.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election with a plot prosecutors say included plans to assassinate the then president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
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“President-elect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/president-elect. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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