After giving a long sigh, Maddow said "you are awake by the way, you are not having a terrible, terrible dream."
"Also, you are not dead and you haven’t gone to hell. This is your life now. This is the election now. This is us, this is our country," she continued.
Americans on Twitter reacted to her meltdown with some people criticizing her as unprofessional while others warmed up to her act as "hilarious" and "absolutely glorious" to watch.
While polls pitted Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
Deplorable, Irredeemableand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Henry Kissinger...
as the would-be winner, Trump won a landslide early on Wednesday to become the 45th US president-elect after winning more than the 270 electoral votes.