‘Trump Shock’: European Media in Meltdown Over Trump’s Victory
The Guardian columnist: “The thought of a Trump presidency is eating me alive.”
The European mainstream media is in a meltdown this morning after President Donald Trump’s historic victory in the U.S. election.
“Why do they vote for Trump?” the leading German news Tageszeitung asked. How could the majority of American voters “support a man like Trump, who insults political opponents, offends allied countries, questions the electoral system, and also advocates anti-worker policies?” the newspaper wondered.
“On paper, the Democrats’ program for the middle class is better than the Republicans’. But why are the Democrats receiving less and less support from this group?” the clueless German daily asked.
German magazine Der Spiegel covered the news with the headline “The Trump Shock.”
“After Donald Trump’s election victory, the U.S. is facing a political turning point,” the weekly added.
The German establishment fears that Trump will make them pay more for their own defense and raise tariffs to drive down the massive trade deficit. “What will happen” when Trump enters the White House?” the German weekly Der Stern asked Wednesday.
“68 percent of people in Germany fear Donald Trump’s election victory. Because, unlike Kamala Harris, he is threatening major changes in how he deals with Germany,” the weekly worriedly, though rightly, concluded.
Even while reporting Trump’s historic comeback, the BBC couldn’t refrain itself from calling the incoming U.S. president a ‘convicted felon’ and accused him of having ‘extreme ideas.’
“It’s not hard to see why he is a deeply polarising figure,” the UK broadcaster commented. “Throughout the campaign, Trump used incendiary rhetoric – making crass jokes and threatening vengeance against his political enemies.”
The British newspaper Guardian sounded heartbroken while reporting on Kamala Harris’ election night watch party on the Howard University campus in Washington. “The Scene at Howard University had echoes of Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 as the US appears poised to return Trump to power,” the newspaper sobbedly recalled.
“The crowd that gathered was excited. The music pulsed. Members of Harris’s AKA sorority, wearing pink and green, danced together,” the Guardian noted. “As Donald Trump began to carve out an expected early lead on Tuesday evening, jitters set in.”
Others were even more unhinged. “The thought of a Trump presidency is eating me alive,” The Guardian columnist Francine Prose wrote.
“I’m neither the calmest nor the most anxious person,” Prose assured. “But as Donald Trump’s presidential victory seems more certain by the minute, I feel sick to my stomach with worry.”
“I hoped to go to sleep on election night knowing Harris had won, and that we were safe. But that is not what was in store for us,” she complained.
Another British daily disparagingly remarked on Trump campaign’s ability to mobilize young men. “By using his egotistical persona to get out the young, male … vote, Trump has defied the laws of political gravity to win in places where Republicans are usually goners,” the London-based Independent commented.
Stocks rise worldwide, U.S. dollar surges
If global markets are any indicator, stocks rose in Europe and Asia in anticipation of a Trump victory. The U.S. dollar also surged in foreign markets, testifying to America’s economic and geopolitical strength under a strong leader like Trump.
The BBC reported:
Benchmark stock indexes across Asia were mostly higher on Wednesday, while the US dollar was also up. (…)
Futures trading on the major US stock indexes was pointing sharply higher. That came after the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all closed more than 1% higher.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, jumped to a record high of more than $75,000 (£58,145).
The US dollar was up by more than 1.5% against a basket of other major currencies, including the euro, pound and the Japanese yen.
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European, world leaders congratulate Trump
European and Western leaders hailed President Trump for his landmark victory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the first to congratulate.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
Dear Donald and Melania Trump,
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.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) November 6, 2024
European leaders also followed suit, the French newspaper Le Monde reports:
World leaders, on Wednesday, November 6, congratulated Donald Trump, who has claimed victory in the US presidential election, with French President Emmanuel Macron being the first Western leader to call him “President Donald Trump.” Macron said he was ready to work with the US vote frontrunner “with respect and ambition” like “we managed to do for four years.” In a post on X, Macron said that the relationship with Trump would “take account of your convictions, and mine,” adding: “For more peace and prosperity.” (…)
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Trump, expressing hope that Washington and Brussels will work together. “I warmly congratulate Donald J. Trump. The EU and the US are more than just allies. 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,” Von der Leyen wrote, on X.
NATO chief Mark Rutte also saluted Trump’s victory and said his return to power would help the alliance. “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,” Rutte said, in a statement.
Germany’s President also congratulated the president-elect, state-run DW TV reported:
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier joined other world leaders in congratulating Trump as the likelihood of him winning the US elections drew nearer.
“I send you my congratulations on your success in the election for the 47th President of the United States of America,” Steinmeier said in a statement.
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Eurotrash politicians support incarcerating people for social media posts, but do tell about muh fascism.
“Pay your own way” is hard for Europeans to hear but it’s long past time they hear it again like they did in his first term.
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Seeing that these Europeans are upset about Trump winning is further confirmation that we voted in the right person!
Bingo. They are about to see the American Money Train get derailed.
Ukraine should be the first country to be shut out. Let the asshats in Europe support Ukraine.
We da fuck out.
Next? Shut down the United Nations, tell every one of them they can go pound sand.
NATO? FOAD.
Every one of these nations worked toward the downfall of the US, and should be considered enemies. British citizens involved in our elections. Adjudicate and incarcerate.
Drill baby, drill. Tell Iraq, Iran, and the rest of them to find other options.
Carpet bomb Gaza.
Take every dime we have, pay down the national debt, and then give every American a huge tax break. Shut down the IRS, CIA, Homeland Security, Education, HUD, FBI, and much much more. What’s left – downsize.
They are mostly democrats anyway. Let them go find jobs in the market. If they have useful skills, they’ll find work. If not, learn to code.
EU has a lot of parasites, time to starve them.
“The German establishment fears that Trump will make them pay more for their own defense and raise tariffs to drive down the massive trade deficit.”
During Trump’s last term he forced a reexamination of NATO, asking the obvious question of Germany:
“Are the Russians your friends or your enemies?”
His argument:
If the Russians are friends of Europe and Germany, then NATO is unnecessary and should be disbanded.
If the Russians are not friends why are you allowing your countries to become so dependent on Russian oil and gas?
The Germans promised to start paying their share of NATO expenses but never actually did as they stalled through the end of the administration.
As for tariffs I would like to remind everyone that Trump is a negotiator supreme. I did labor relation negotiations for a major U.S. firm so I know a little about the tactics. The threat of tariffs is a wonderful level to get concessions in other areas (see NATO above). I don’t think that Europe will actually see any tariffs but you can’t give that impression or you lose the leverage.
China, I believe WILL see tariffs, in an attempt to move some manufacturing out of China, if not actually back to the U.S.
Germany is rebuilding the military albeit slowly. Poland is going full speed, but the manufacturing bottlenecks are an issue. It has a strong relationship with both the USA and Korea and should be receiving some Korean armaments soon. It devotes well over 3% to national rearmament. It realizes it must defend Lithuania as well as itself, and is attempting to coordinate that also.
“The thought of a Trump presidency is eating me alive,”
Well, that’s one way to lose weight..
LOL!
Thanks for the laugh.
That brightened my day!
There are “snuff” websites that would pay big bucks to stream that!
The surge of the US Dollar is one of the most important and telling indicators about the impact of Trump’s victory.
European leftists are as stupid, naive, destructive and contemptible as our home-grown, American Dhimmi-crats. They’re still fawning over the rank incompetence of narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, because that dolt paid the E.U. bureaucracy and leftist European leadership obsequious deference and praise.
Obama’s political clout and influence is gone, now. May this wretched and vile POS hustler, demagogue and racial arsonist retire to his Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii mansions, never to be seen or heard, again.
If his Ears attended any meetings where the DoJ and the Biden people were hashing out their plans to prosecute and sue Trump, he should be indicted as a co-conspirator and take a 15 year retirement detour in a federal cell.
AFTER a fair and open trial leaving he evidence in the public domain. And the venue for his term to be served as his just reward must be Gitmo. And that portion of his personal wealth derived from his chicanery shall be forfeit. Use the money to pay reparations for those wrongfully terminated for refusal to roll up their sleeves and take the shot,
Respectfully, Guy, I disagree completely with your comment. Both Obamas need to be seen and heard at their indictments and trials
“On paper”, the Red Coats should have handily defeated the Colonists.
Maybe these foreigners, these so-called “journalists”, should mind their own damn business. This was OUR election. Trump is OUR President, not theirs.
The EU’s own dependence on US strength and wealth has put them into the precarious situation in which they now find themselves. They’ve become as dependent on the US as they’ve made their own citizens dependent upon them, and are reacting in the same way their citizens would react if cuts to their welfare were suggested. They don’t see how welfare weakens their citizens and, remarkably consistently, they don’t see how their dependence on the US has weakened them. (If they do see how welfare weakens their citizens, then their self-imposed reliance on the US is inexplicable. So I have to believe they have a blind spot for the problems caused by welfare. They really do believe it’s a net good, rather than a net evil.)
Like all leftists, the EU welfare systems (financed by the US taxpayer) is simply a scheme to remain in power by vote purchasing. None of them are motivated by what is best for their own citizens.
But maybe the EU will be motivated to dump NATO if paying for their own defense cuts into their vote-for-me welfare expenses.
Too many in Israel don’t see it either. And those few who do see it haven’t got the willpower to give it up. And now they’re paying the price.
But Biden WAS their president. Of their moneybags. Mr 10%.
And we do not give a F what they think, like or dislike.
LIbtard Tears!!! So Delicious!!! MORE!!!
Hope those cups are deployed TODAY, or we’re missing a four-year opportunity!
They’re in shock?
They saw a steam roller named Trump barreling toward a paper dolly named Harris. What did they think was going to happen?
Be afraid, be very afraid!!!
Jack Smith is unemployed!!!
Best ever
I forgot about that!
You just gave me a premature eradication.
It is really important that Jack Smith be prosecuted.
It’s good to be reminded that Europe has even more brainless dweebs than the Democrat party and its regressive progressive wing.. The same people complaining of Trump’s rudeness, never hesitate to look down on and insult those who disagree with their self-aggrandizing views. What these parasitical careerist really fear is being forced to engage in productive labor while living with diminished life-styles. It will be fun to watch.
Starmer and Macron need to look in the mirror.
Q: Why do they vote for Trump?
A: Obama, Biden, & Harris
Newton didn’t know it, but he formulated at least one law that applies to politics as well as physics.
Strange that these foreign press mouthpieces for Big Government have not learned anything from the rightwards tilt their own populace is taking
The dildo of circumstances seldom arrives lubricanted.
How about a warning next time?
NSFW.
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Stealing it!
“Why do they vote for Trump?” the leading German news Tageszeitung asked. How could the majority of American voters “support a man like Trump, who insults political opponents, offends allied countries, questions the electoral system, and also advocates anti-worker policies?” the newspaper wondered…
The Democrats do all those things too, dumb German
Maybe they should go to a fine British pub or the German Hoffbrauhaus and drown their sorrows in some beer. They will get over it.
And if they want to visit the US, they can guzzle some very good cider at the Trump Cidery ha ha ha.
“Others were even more unhinged. “The thought of a Trump presidency is eating me alive,” “
Put some good Bavarian mustard on him to make sure none of him well be left over.
“On paper, the Democrats’ program for the middle class is better than the Republicans’.“
I love this quote, it encapsulates so much of what is wrong with the left, and perfectly describes the problem with socialism. It doesn’t actually work in real life!
And they never realize it until the paper is the only thing left to eat.
“I’m sorry, Europe — are you someone whose opinions are supposed to matter to us?”
So many naive people think of government workers as a species of paragons of moral virtue, experts in every field whose encyclopedic knowledge of the world and the needs of the citizens they serve so selflessly makes them the ultimate guardians for the citizens’ well-being.
The reality is that government workers, though better paid and better credentialed on average than their peers in the private sector, are no smarter, efficient, and moral. The vision people should have of government workers is the perfidy of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen, the indifferent (sometimes snarling) bureaucrat at any public-facing organization you can think of, and clown prince Sam Brinton–liberator of suitcases from airport carousels and wearer of the women’s clothing found within.
The men named above were not just ordinary government workers, though. They were considered above average and selected for positions of leadership–models identified for emulation by more junior personnel and evaluators of the conduct and fitness for future promotion of their charges.
make that “not smarter, more efficient, and more moral.”
It has been contention, due to the fact I live in Germany for the last thirty years, that the impetus toward anarchy in the United States, has been supported and may be instituted by those in Germany and Great Britain. Think about it, Great Britain is still butt hurt because of what happened over two hundred years ago. It has been their desire to bring the United States back in the fold of being ruled by tyrants. As well, if you will look at the history, Europe has been ruling itself in the vein of incestuous relationships and the fact they decided through undemocratic means to form a union, goes in line with what was started in 1933. No more wearing uniforms or symbols, it has become the wearing of suits and ties and dresses to perform the functions that the Europeans so abhor, but silently wish they could pick up where they left off in 1945.
It is to anyone who believes in the Constitution of the United States to understand fully; Europe and its satellites are not democratic. They are tyrannical and though they appear to not be locked by borders anymore, their iron fisted handling of anything not approved by governments and their attack dogs; the media, will be swiftly and quickly be jack booted into oblivion.
Those in government positions in the United States, namely those three letter agencies and the State Department, support and defend the Europeans and their ilk in interfering with any right that has been granted to each and every citizen of the United States. Exposing the corrupt and evil people within the United States government exposes those in Europe who are truly the enemies of our republic.
“Why do they vote for Trump?”
Do Europeans not own mirrors?
I’m sorry, but where did the people who elected Hitler get the idea that they could chastise anyone for the way they vote?