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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Goodbye United States of America. I weep for everyone everywhere.
Oh if this is going to dissolve the USA then that's good
Lemmygrad is pro-Trump, got it.
you may be illiterate. lemmygrad is anti-U.S. and trump is dumb enough to cause potentially fatal harm to the empire.
Nice rofile picture!
Leave me out of your suicide cult pls
pictured: democrats after skewing as hard to the right as they can and still eating shit in a legendary way
"but how could the 0.001% of u.s. citizens who are communists do this???"
“Leave me out of your suicide cult,” they say while literally perpetuating the suicide cult of capitalism and posting a cute little bicycle meme completely oblivious to the hypocrisy, projection, and irony.
You can’t make this shit up, folks.
I honestly would have thought it was a bit making fun of dipshit libs if they hadn't gone mask off in other comments and proving once again the validity of the "scratched liberal" saying.
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.
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
Then how am I reading, huh? You just like insulting people, don't you?
That's still a form of being pro-Trump.
it's not as insulting to call you illiterate as it is for you to claim a communist is pro-trump. i'm just responding in kind.
it's not, and plainly so, but you are just going to label anything other than uncritical support for blue team "pro-trump". i'm sorry your team decided supporting genocide mattered more than winning votes.
I'm not even American, it says so in my username. Maybe you're illiterate.
a majority of people in the u.s. are, so it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
and you don't need to be from a place to claim its team as yours. people do it with sports all the time. this is no different. but fine: i'm sorry blue team decided supporting genocide mattered more than winning votes.
You know that's not literally true either - America has a reasonable literacy rate. I have no interest in shitting on people, or being shit on, goodbye.
"Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2022. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022. 54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level. 21% of Americans 18 and older are illiterate in 2022." according to this random source https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics
your fetishes are not my interest. you attempting to lump people who oppose the u.s. with people who support trump is. you're not even from here, you plainly lack any advanced understanding of politics, so why do you think you should be allowed to speak? particularly unopposed?
Shitty bait is shitty.
I guess it's bait, in that I was hoping for a response, but isn't that exactly what was said here? The downvotes make me think the rest of you agree, too. I'm not trying to be a dick.
OP said "America will disappear" and that they will "weep" over it. I said America disappearing is a good thing.
I read "weep for everyone everywhere" as more of a "newly fascist US is going to mess the rest of the world up" sort of thing, not as an "everyone loves America" sort of thing. And then you came in with accelerationism.
(Yes, yes, I know. They were already Nazis in your opinion, or whatever)
I'm not doing acceleration. You libs really gotta figure out the difference between the layers of reality. This is happening. I didn't vote for Trump. I didn't advocate for Trump to be elected on the grounds that it would accelerate collapse. But here we are. It's happening. I'm not going to fucking weep for America. That doesn't make me an accelerationist.
"Newly fascist US" is pretty ridiculous when you consider the 1939 Nazi rally at MSG in NYC, Operation Paperclip, Operation Gladio, the USA selecting former Nazi officers to lead NATO, Hitler's explicit writings in Mein Kampf of following the American model of indigenous genocide, black slavery, and apartheid, the USA's repeated veto of the UN resolution to condemn the worshiping of Nazis, the neverending free-speech protections of white supremacist and neonazis simultaneous with the neverending police murder and brutality of black and brown people, etc, etc, etc.
And Canada doesn't get a pass on this either. They, too, glorify Nazis while raping and murdering indigenous people.
Weep for America.... fuck right off.
the destruction of America in any form other than total global annihilation is an enormous and unequivocal positive
Trump getting elected isn't positive, we do not like trump, however if this directly causes the complete collapse of the united states then I'm all for it
So a net positive? Like, I hear you that you don't agree with everything he says or like him personally, but it sounds like you prefer (aka support) this outcome.
No not really, I said it's only positive if it ends up with the complete destruction of the US, which until that happens means it's not positive. It's a retroactive positive, it only counts if it happens, I'm not doing rhetorical trickery or arguing in bad faith, that's just my take on things. Genocidal racist fascist red team VS genocidal racist fascist blue team makes no functional difference in the material conditions of most people in the world, shit would be no better under kamalas reich
So I guess you don't think it's very likely, then?
I'm pretty pessimistic, I fear that it may be a long time yet with things getting even worse as it goes before the US collapses, regardless of who won this election. I guess I feel like the collapse of the US is too good to be true
I never said I was happy trump won, I'm just hoping for a silver lining, I think you got lost in the back and forth here
Imagine believing there is a difference between two genocidal candidates.
Yeah what exactly about America do you think is changing here?
The rhetoric, the only thing that matters to some people.
An unimpeded conservative government will roll back human rights that took us decades to earn.
Trump elected supreme court officials necessary to defeat roe v wade. He put the people in power capable of rolling those rights back.
Women's rights is just the beginning. Every member of American society will have their basic human rights threatened during this term.
Why on God's green fucking earth would you think that only the rhetoric is different? Please answer this question and do not skip it.
An unimpeded conservative government will roll back human rights that took us decades to earn.
Sounds like a fundamentally broken and unfixable system if the work of literal generations for things that are internationally recognized as correct can be undone in a couple of years.
Trump elected supreme court officials necessary to defeat roe v wade
The Ds had multiple opportunities to address this. They punted on all of them, from making nominations to rejecting nominations to expanding the court. They chose exactly none of these options over the last 12 years.
He put the people in power capable of rolling those rights back.
No he didn't. Congress did.
Women’s rights is just the beginning. Every member of American society will have their basic human rights threatened during this term.
They all have been already. Did you forget McCarthyism? How about the black felon rate? The black incarceration rate? The national incarceration rate? Slave labor? (California voted overwhelmingly to maintain prison slave labor) How about disparate health outcomes for non-whites? Educational outcomes? Wealth outcomes? Homelessness?
Every member of American society has had their basic human rights threatened for the last 200 years except for that still quite small group of white people.
Why on God’s green fucking earth would you think that only the rhetoric is different? Please answer this question and do not skip it.
Because the Kamala literally said the only difference between her and Biden would be that she would appoint a Republican to her cabinet? Because Pelosi said we want a strong Republican party? Because the Ds have done literally nothing to stop this so-called "threat to democracy"? Because under Biden solitary confinement of migrants, including infants and toddlers, increased? Because Kamala told migrants "Don't come"? Because military surplus being transferred to domestic police continued unabated under Biden? Because the foreign policy continues to be destruction and devastation and nuclear brinksmanship regardless of party in charge? Because there are no solutions to the economic crises that protect the ideology of privatization? Because the Ds have had multiple opportunities in the last 40 years to codify Roe into law and chose not to so they could continue campaigning on the issue? Because the Ds will tell you to your face that the Rs are rabid fascist authoritarians and then still go to lunch with them, high five them on the legislative floor, and have dance parties? Because the Ds and Rs come together on the regular to feed the war machine and the money machine, even to the point of bypassing the filibuster temporarily during the exact same session where the Ds said they can do nothing about the filibuster?
Because all of the fucking evidence is that literally the only difference is the lens you're looking through and where and how the harm falls and how it sounds when it falls?
I'm willing to try one more time with you. After that, I'll need to reclaim my time and be productive where I can.
Your point was that after electing Trump, the only thing that changes is "rhetoric, the only thing that matters to some people", and I disagreed by citing examples of how our rights were rolled back during his previous term. This means I am saying, "you're wrong - it's not just rhetoric that changes. It's also our rights as Americans."
I understand that you're severely critical of the Democratic party, but are you really willing to say that the only measurable change to our society during a second Trump term is rhetoric? It's going to get a lot of people killed, man. You should care about that.
I won't get pulled into the weeds with you. Either backpedal or admit that you were wrong, or I'm leaving the conversation.
I’m willing to try one more time with you.
Oh how gracious! Thank you!
Your point was that after electing Trump, the only thing that changes is “rhetoric, the only thing that matters to some people”, and I disagreed by citing examples of how our rights were rolled back during his previous term. This means I am saying, “you’re wrong - it’s not just rhetoric that changes. It’s also our rights as Americans.”
Yeah, I'm aware. And as it turns out ALL of the things you can cite for Trump are ALSO things you can cite for NOT TRUMP, as I did by citing examples of how our rights are rolled back, attacked, diminished, and destroyed under prior administrations including Biden's.
This means I am saying "our rights" are constantly being harmed regardless of who is in office and that the only thing that changes is the framing and lens, which includes the rhetoric as well as the particular strategies of harm that result in harm being targeted in specific ways. It's not less harm under Democrats, it's not less harm under NOT TRUMP, it's just different framing.
I understand that you’re severely critical of the Democratic party
If that's your understanding, then you're not understanding. I'm severely critical of the entire American project along its entire continuum of existence and absolutely every single leader that has ever been elected. I'll take that one step further so you understand how far off you are - I denounce the entirety of the colonial system that gave birth to and is continued by the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the rest of the British Commonwealth abroad, and the foreign holdings of all European countries, their leaders, their parties-in-power, their owning classes, and their supporting militaries, academies, religious institutions, and NGOs.
Do you get it now?
but are you really willing to say that the only measurable change to our society during a second Trump term is rhetoric? It’s going to get a lot of people killed, man. You should care about that.
I CHALLENGE you to attempt to catalog the number of people who died as a result of each administration for the last 20 administrations and see if you can find ANY evidence that who is president matters at all along that dimension. Clinton bombed Yugoslavia. Bush destroyed Iraq. Obama destroyed Libya. The Afghanistan affair spanned 20 fucking year. Ukraine is the direct result of the US arming and training Ukraine and expanding nuclear NATO as part of a project that started under Clinton. Trump literally was the first president to approve arms transfers to Ukraine as part of the escalation ladder that led to Biden overseeing the continued expansion of NATO. But it was under Obama that John McCain (R) and Victoria Nuland (?D?) went to Ukraine to participate in the violent transfer of power that started with training and organizing fascists and ended with Right Sector storming the capitol with gun drawn.
And that's to say nothing of the non-stop destruction of water, land, and food of the indigenous people across the Americas, the residential schools that were overseen by both parties over many decades, the forced sterilization overseen by both parties over many decades, the incarceration and ensnaring-in-poverty of the black population overseen by both parties over many decades.
I won’t get pulled into the weeds with you. Either backpedal or admit that you were wrong, or I’m leaving the conversation.
What the fuck kind of discourse do you think this is where what I want is to continue a conversation with someone who thinks they are fundamentally correct without doubt and simultaneously believes their engagement is so desirable that withdrawing it is an effective gambit.
Fuck off
My time is valuable to me and I won't surrender it to someone incapable of healthy, respectful discourse. You're blocked. Have a day.
Respect is when you promise to walk away if your discursive partner refuses to accept your faulty premises.
So a genocide is not a redline for you?
Imagine thinking it will be any better under Trump
It won't be, but at least liberals will oppose the genocide now
I didn't mention genocide.. why do you think it isn't a redline for me? can you explain how you got there, mentally?
The president. Try and keep up!
Nothing of value will be lost
Only millions of people that were simply born in the wrong place. Only a world superpower potentially turning into an autocratic regime in support of other tyrants.
But sure, other than the existential threat of the largest exporter of culture and most powerful military on earth in a country that has a history of imperialism and warmongering falling under the control of an autocratic regime of fascists, sure. Nothing of value.
what do you mean turning into, it already was all of what you just said... also for the second paragraph, it would have also been true under Harris.
I understand your scared, however that should not be a reason to devorce yourself from the material reality of the situation
Good riddance to the genocide factory and can we roll a new character now please
It is not like we had a genocide under the Democrats...
If you don't think Trump will actively accelerate that you're deluding yourself.
And whose fault the genocide lasted until the next president? it is not like the Biden administration vetoed two ceasefires at the UN.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.