It's fair to say that many people were confused when it emerged, in the early hours of Thursday, 9 November, that Donald Trump was the new President-elect.

But, as the 70-year-old property billionaire took to the stage to make his speech, there was a symbol of that mass international confusion and weariness stood nearby: Barron Trump.

Trump's flaxen-haired 10-year-old son famously struggled to stay awake during his father's 3.30am oratory, pulling some remarkable – and fitting – facial expressions in an attempt to stave off slumber.