World reactions as Donald Trump wins US presidential election
World reactions as Donald Trump wins US presidential election
After a turbulent and defiant campaign against Kamala Harris, Trump will become the country’s 47th president.
Israel
“Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America. This is a huge victory! In true friendship,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on social media platform X.
Iran
The livelihoods of Iranians will not be affected by the US election, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran.
“The US elections are not really our business. Our policies are steady and don’t change based on individuals. We made the necessary predictions before and there will not be change in people’s livelihoods,” she said.
Hamas
Trump’s victory puts to test his earlier statements that he can stop the war in Gaza within hours, Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told the Reuters news agency. The Democratic party’s loss is the natural price for its leadership’s “criminal stance” towards Gaza, Abu Zuhri said, adding that “we urge Trump to learn from [US President Joe] Biden’s mistakes.”
China
“Our policy towards the US is consistent,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a news briefing.
“We will continue to view and handle China-US relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation,” she added.
Ukraine
“I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach in global affairs. This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X.
United Kingdom
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, “Congratulations President-elect Trump on your historic election victory. I look forward to working with you in the years ahead. As the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.”
NATO
Secretary-General Mark Rutte: “I just congratulated Donald Trump on his election as President of the United States. His leadership will again be key to keeping our Alliance strong. I look forward to working with him again to advance peace through strength through NATO.”
European Union
“The EU and the US are more than just allies. We are bound by a true partnership between our people, uniting 800 million citizens,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “So let’s work together on a strong transatlantic agenda that keeps delivering for them.”
India
Congratulating Trump on a “historic election victory”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X that “as you build on the successes of your previous term, I look forward to renewing our collaboration to further strengthen the India-US Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership.”
Russia
“Trump has one useful quality for us: as a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers-on and stupid hanger-on allies, on bad charity projects and on voracious international organisations,” former President Dmitry Medvedev posted on the Telegram messaging app.
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Bro I’m not saying dems have anyone else to blame, I’m saying you seem way too happy about self harm.
my pronouns are right in my name. don't "bro" me.
i'm not "happy about self harm", that's obviously silly. i just value the lives of non-u.s. citizens. any weakening of the united states will mean a chance for other nations to finally be free of our boot on their neck.
Just FYI, I cannot see your pronouns in the Voyager app that I use on my phone.
Would you open up an issue for that? They're in the display name so they should be there.
Looks like someone else opened an issue around three weeks ago.
i've heard this is an issue for some folks. unfortunate! thanks for reminding me, though in this case the person in question was kind enough to clear up any potential misunderstanding by going on to be a big ol' piece of shit.
Haven’t you heard? Republicans won, pronouns are out, bro. Gz
no but actually, i love how you liberals all pretend to give a shit about marginalized groups until the instant they don't bow and scrape for you anymore. then you're just as bad as the worst republican.
you deserve death just like they do.
I was literally giving you what you want. I could give you what I want, which is equal rights and fair treatment, but that’d be a bit white colonialist.
you're not fooling anyone with this bullshit. you already played your hand, nazi. die fucking screaming.
this is you.
e: except to people who don't even support trump. so actually, you are even worse.
Damn, hypocrite much?
there's nothing hypocritical about my position. you are the worst kind of person. i think everyone like you should fucking die in agony. you are particularly repulsive specimen because you're plainly a coward on top of being a bigot, only dropping the mask when someone you view as lesser makes you sufficiently irritable. you are worse than the open bigots because at least with them i know i need to watch my back. but you're exactly the kind of soulless scumfuck who'd smile to a trans person's face and then stab them in the back. you are genuinely an awful person and i sincerely pray with every ounce of my being that you die.
I could give you what I want, equal rights and fair treatment, but that’d be a bit white colonialist.
What's wrong with you? Touting your virtuous heart at the same time as just being openly racist
Racism is also no longer real now that we've got an explicitly white nationalist president, this solves the contradiction.
If you're serious, cause I see you're a different account and tbh I have no idea where the context is right now: From a postcolonial perspective the concept of moral naturalism, or "objective good," looks damn close to the cultural superiority that was often used to excuse colonial behavior. The way it managed to contradict so many things at once in the conversation was darkly amusing, and I thought it might bait a response that would show inconsistencies in the views being expressed while also being rude enough to let out some of my current frustration at the proudly self-destructive behavior that's popped up like mushrooms with Trump's win. Happened last time that old white man won, too, and soon everyone was whining. How tf did it get worse. Either goldfish memory or a bunch of tadpoles.
White colonial ideology has historically been violently opposed to "equal rights and fair treatment," merely proclaiming such things while devising excuses to exclude people from it. You are speaking as though the non-white savages would need to have "equal rights and fair treatment" imposed upon them by whites, which is just being a classic racist piece of shit.
"When I'm mad about orang man, I do a racism" is not a compelling excuse.
Congrats, you've figured out about half the inherent contradiction. That's barely a passing score.
Looks like the liberal-to-that-which-they-claim-to-hate pipeline is operating at record efficiency.
What? What do you mean lol.
i hope you get shot in the fucking face you worthless sack of dogshit