On Wednesday evening, thousands of protesters thronged streets in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Some burned a US flag as they reached the Trump Tower while other chanted:
"Not my president".
In Chicago, roughly 1,000 people attempted to gather outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower downtown while chanting phrases like "No Trump! No KKK! No racist USA".
Chicago police closed roads in the area, blocking the demonstrators' path.
Protesters condemned Trump's campaign pledge to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep out undocumented immigrants and other policies perceived as affecting people of colour.
In his victory speech, however, Trump said he would be president for all Americans, saying: "It is time for us to come together as one united people."
In Chicago, Angie Victoria, 27, told Al Jazeera: "I think [Trump] getting elected is an atrocity. There's no way he's qualified to be president, he's so erratic. There's no platform; he just appealed to people stewing in bigotry and racism."
Izzy Mosser, 19, said: "A presidency under Trump is ... scary. The only good thing is that people are coming together to stop him. It's dividing and uniting at the same time."
In Austin, the Texas capital, about 400 people staged a march through the city's streets, police said.
Other protests were organised in Washington, DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Tennessee and other cities.
Earlier in the day, some 1,500 California students and teachers rallied in the courtyard of Berkeley High School, a San Francisco Bay Area city known for its progressive politics, before marching towards the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Hundreds of high school and college students walked out in protest in Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles and three other cities in the Bay Area, Richmond, El Cerrito and Oakland.
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