Foreign leaders react as Donald Trump wins 2024 U.S. election
With former President Donald Trump set to reprise his function as the commander in chief of the world’s strongest navy and largest financial system — and with him losing no time in claiming victory in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election — leaders around the globe began reacting Wednesday to the fact of a second time period within the White Home for the businessman-turned politician.
From enthusiasm voiced by Israel’s chief as he wages an increasing, multi-front battle to anxiousness from a few of America’s closest, generations-old European allies, the response to Trump’s election efficiency began rolling in lengthy earlier than the ultimate votes had been counted throughout the U.S.
Under is a have a look at how some overseas leaders and others around the globe have taken the information of the American citizens’s obvious rebuke of Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Celebration on the polls.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supplied his congratulations to Trump on Wednesday, calling his election efficiency “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,” Netanyahu mentioned. “This is a huge victory!”
Regardless of Trump’s criticism of the Israeli chief’s dealing with of the continuing battle in opposition to Hamas within the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu was extensively believed to favor the previous U.S. chief within the U.S. election, as stress between Washington and Tel Aviv has risen sharply over the past yr on account of Israel’s ways in its multi-front battle with Iranian-backed teams within the Center East.
The battle in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist assault that noticed the militants kill some 1,200 folks and kidnap about 250 others, has now killed greater than 43,000 folks within the Palestinian territory, in line with its Hamas-run well being ministry. Israel has additionally considerably ramped-up its assault on Hezbollah, Hamas’ fellow-Iranian backed allies in Lebanon. The Israeli offensive there has killed greater than 3,000 folks, in line with the Lebanese well being ministry.
The Biden administration has continued pushing for cease-fires on each fronts, to no avail, and demanding that Israel do extra to mitigate the devastating impression of the wars on civilians.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose function is essentially symbolic, also congratulated Trump on his “historic return to the White House.”
“You are a true and dear friend of Israel, and a champion of peace and cooperation in our region,” Herzog mentioned. “I look forward to working with you to strengthen the ironclad bond between our peoples, to build a future of peace and security for the Middle East, and to uphold our shared values. On behalf of the Jewish and democratic State of Israel, and all our people, I wish you much success.”
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán
One of many first overseas leaders to supply congratulations to Trump on Wednesday was one of many only a few who overtly backed him lengthy earlier than the ultimate votes had been forged within the U.S. Hungary’s far-right President Viktor Orbán, who’s been accused throughout his decades-long management of the jap European nation of eroding its democratic establishments by giving himself extra energy and limiting that of the nation’s courts and civil society establishments, referred to as Trump’s obvious success “a much needed victory for the World!”
In a message posted on social media, Orbán mentioned Trump had pulled off “the biggest comeback in US political history,” and he congratulated him on his “enormous win.”
Orban has made himself an outsider amongst European Union leaders by endorsing anti-immigrant insurance policies and sustaining shut ties with President Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine — all whereas touting his shut ties to Trump.
In a speech over the summer season, Orbán recommended he had even helped to craft Trump’s future statecraft, claiming to have “entered the policy-writing system of President Donald Trump’s team,” with “deep involvement there.”
Head of Russian parliament’s overseas affairs committee
Leonid Slutsky, who heads the Committee on Worldwide Affairs in Russia’s State Duma, or parliament, was quoted Wednesday by the nation’s state-run RIA Novosti information company as saying a Trump victory supplied “a chance for a more constructive approach to the Ukrainian conflict.”
“Trump was and remains a big businessman in big politics. Can we expect changes in approaches to the role of the U.S. in the Ukrainian conflict, which has been fueled by the Democratic administration since 2014? Judging by the election rhetoric (if it can still be believed), the Republican team is not going to send more and more American taxpayers’ money into the furnace of a proxy war against Russia,” Slutsky was quoted as saying. “Perhaps there is a chance for a more constructive approach here.”
Slutsky didn’t touch upon Trump’s repeated vows to finish the battle in Ukraine shortly if reelected — one thing European and Ukrainian leaders concern he might do by halting America’s huge navy help for Kyiv and forcing Ukraine to simply accept Russia’s takeover of serious Ukrainian territory.
Slutsky did predict, nonetheless, that if the subsequent American administration does reduce off that help, the U.S.-backed Ukrainian authorities of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will fall “in a matter of months, if not days.”
There was no quick response from President Vladimir Putin, who by no means spoke in favor of both candidate in the course of the U.S. election marketing campaign course of, however whose management Trump has lauded beforehand.
U.Okay. Prime Minister Keir Starmer
U.Okay. Prime Minister Keir Starmer did his greatest Wednesday, regardless of a transparent delineation between his personal insurance policies and people anticipated of one other Trump administration, to take care of the decorum of the storied “special friendship” between the 2 nations.
In a social media post, Starmer supplied his congratulations to Trump “on your historic election victory,” including that he appears to be like ahead to “working with you in the years ahead.”
“As the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defense of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise,” mentioned Starmer, who got here to energy solely months in the past as Britain’s left-leaning Labour Celebration gained nationwide elections in a landslide after a decade and a half of Conservative Celebration rule.
“I know that the US-UK special relationship will continue to prosper on both sides of the Atlantic for years to come,” added Starmer.
French President Emmanuel Macron
“Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump,” France’s President Emmanuel Macron said in a brief statement posted on social media Wednesday. He declared his administration “ready to work together” once more as it did throughout Trump’s first time period in workplace, “with your convictions and mine. With respect and ambition. For more peace and prosperity.”
However an hour later, the French president issued one other assertion that hinted on the issues he and plenty of of his European colleagues are prone to share about Trump’s dedication to the transatlantic NATO alliance, America’s future backing of Ukraine within the battle with Russia, and his stance on overseas import tariffs.
In his second tweet, Macron said he had simply spoken with German Chancellor Olaf Sholz, and that the leaders of the EU’s two largest economies had agreed to “work towards a more united, stronger, more sovereign Europe in this new context. By cooperating with the United States of America and defending our interests and our values.”
NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte
“I just congratulated @realDonaldTrump on his election as President of the United States,” mentioned NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte on Wednesday, including in his social media post that Trump’s “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.”
Trump has criticized lots of the NATO alliance’s European members for failing to commit a minimum of 2% of their nationwide GDPs to their protection budgets.
Trump shocked lots of America’s closest allies throughout and after his first time period by overtly criticizing their funding commitments, and in the course of the 2024 presidential marketing campaign he mentioned calling on allies to extend their protection spending could be a coverage he aggressively pursued if reelected.
In Could, Trump marketing campaign nationwide press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned “Trump got our allies to increase their NATO spending by demanding they pay up,” and that if reelected, “he will restore peace and rebuild American strength and deterrence on the world stage.”
European Union’s Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Union bloc’s governing physique, the European Fee, congratulated Trump on Wednesday and iterated her hope in a quick social media post that the U.S. and EU might “work together on a strong transatlantic agenda that keeps delivering” for residents on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
“I warmly congratulate Donald J. Trump. The EU and the US are more than just allies,” Von der Leyen mentioned. “We are bound by a true partnership between our people, uniting 800 million citizens. So let’s work together on a strong transatlantic agenda that keeps delivering for them.”
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