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Foreign Media Weighs In On Trump Win

The day before the election the German Bonne Express wrote, Please, Not the Horror Clown. Today, an article appears referring to Trump as the sociopath in the White House

The nightmare has come true. Donald Trump is the new president of USA . The Americans have chosen a demagogue, sexist and racist the most powerful man in the world. At the White House soon sits a self-proclaimed savior with sociopathic traits. Unpredictable, brushed on riot. With an abundance of power without equal.

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The Bonne Express has been recapping foreign media reaction around the world. In a news article today it says old white men voted Trump into office.

What is striking is that Trump scored with old white men. 53 percent of the men vote for Trump, 41 for Clinton. It was almost the opposite of the women. While Clinton won the age group Under 40 for herself, Trump drew the voters from 40 years on his side. Above all in the largest electorate of the 50 to 64-year-olds, he [won] 53 percent of the votes. Clinton only 44.

(Rock the Vote says millenials voted overwhelmingly for Clinton)

Another article says Trump is Dangerous for the US and the World, and "This day will change the world as much as the 9/11 disaster."

Another article called Trump's win the "victory of stupidity over reason"

The nightmare has come true. Donald Trump is the new president of USA . The creepy Donald Trump horror clown show continues - unfortunately!
And we are all condemned to watch the lousy production with a third-class leading actor. Trumps victory is a disaster both internally and internally, it is a victory of stupidity over reason.

From a Swedish paper called Aftonbladet:

He attacked free media, challenged independent judges and threatened to throw his opponent to jail. These are methods that we associate with dictatorships and authoritarian states

Same link, further down, The Czech Republic:

"The most striking feature of the recent American election campaign was the incomprehensible mutual intolerance, if not the hate, between both camps. [...]
Many voters [...] unite today in the unpleasant feeling that one must already sleep to believe in the American dream. "

From the Swiss Paper called Blick (same link):

"With Donald Trump, the man has become the President, before whom the fathers of the American constitution were always afraid: the unrestrained populist, without any sense of compensation and bourgeoisie. (...)

Now Trump has not only the most powerful office in the world at his disposal, he also has a republican parliamentary majority, along with a conservative half of the Supreme Court, which for years shows that partisanship is much more important to them than the interests of the country. "

From Denmark's daily paper "Politiken": Fear and Rage Have Triumphed (same link)

"A shudder passes through the US, and this is felt in the rest of the world,"

..."American voters have chosen one of the most sinister candidates in history and decided against the first female president of the story .
Fear and rage have triumphed. Reason and the elite have lost. The US wiggle before the introduction of one of the most politically unqualified and humanly unpleasant persons as 45th President of the USA on unsafe ground. (my emphasis) But one thing is certain: neither the US nor the rest of the world will remain with Donald Trump as president, as we know them. "

In the Romanian paper Libera (same link):

"The majority of those who now jubilate online because Donald Trump has conquered America are just those who have felt so tied up, because, to be socially accepted, they had to squeeze openly to say what they are thinking: That the women had to return to the cooking pot, that blacks and Roma were inferior and refugees were terrorists, that disabled people had to be isolated in special places, and other nonsense....
Now these people have got the signal that their "oppression" has an end. (...)

This is the most dangerous direction that Donald Trump brings into world politics: a society that was already on the edge of the gorge is pushed into the abyss of hatred. And she'll stay there for many years. "

From France's Le Figaro: (same link)

"This morning America is one of those severely wounded people who need to wash the mud to discover their wounds and finally provide them. The clash was violent, the damage is immense. "

From France's Liberation (same link):

"Shock. Donnerschlag. And a feeling of dizzyness in the face of the idea that Donald Trump will stop his suitcases at the White House in barely two and a half months. "

From The Netherlands "de Volkskrant" (same link):

"With the election victory of Donald Trump, white dissatisfaction has got America under control. The American protest voices have proved to be louder than they thought they could be heard by the opinion researcher, so it became the Brexit scenario. (...)

However, Russian leaders Vladimir Putin and his Syrian colleague Bashar al-Assad have nothing to fear. With trumps of passive attitude toward other powerful men, a period of appeasement policy now begins. The long-term consequences are difficult to predict, but the world is likely to be more unstable. "

An editorial in the Hindustan Times:

But perhaps most important, Trump is bad for India because he is bad for his own country, and the well-being of the US is now closely connected to our own. There is every indication that his leadership will harm American interests, at home and abroad. Even the attempt to keep some his more outlandish promises – to build a wall along the border with Mexico; to tear up defense treaties with NATO, Japan and Korea; to reverse policies designed to forestall climate change – will weaken the US, just when India’s ties to it are at their strongest.

On a related note, Mick Jagger tried a little levity (he and the Stones have repeatedly asked Trump not to play their music at campaign events, to no avail. On Twitter today, he wrote:

Just was watching the news... maybe they'll ask me to sing 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' at the inauguration, ha!

His helpful readers added in comments, how about "Monkey Man", "Gimme Shelter", "Can't Get No Satisfaction" and "Sympathy for the Devil", "Get Off My Cloud" and "Paint it Black." A few of Trump's under-informed supporters thought he was being serious and thought he should ask Trump for an invite.

Here's a photo of Hillary and Keith from the 2001 Concert for NY (a 9/11 event)

Were there some foreign media who supported Trump's win? Yes, but I'm not interested in mentioning or crediting them. So please don't bother to post quotes from them in comments. I've acknowledged some exist, that's enough.

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    Steve Bell, (none / 0) (#1)
    by Mr Natural on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 10:06:34 PM EST
    A Guardian editorial cartoon:

    Everybody knows we're in the crapper,
    Everybody knows the losers won,


    The Guardian: "a dark day for the world" (none / 0) (#3)
    by Mr Natural on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 10:29:46 PM EST
    The final and overarching fear, though, is for the world. Mr Trump's win means uncertainty about America's future strategy in a world that has long relied on the United States for stability. But Mr Trump's capacity to destabilise is almost limitless. His military, diplomatic, security, environmental and trade policies all have the capacity to change the world for the worse. Americans have done a very dangerous thing this week. Because of what they have done we all face dark, uncertain and fearful times.

    Everybody Knows (none / 0) (#4)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 10:35:13 PM EST
    by Leonard Cohen ( I like Don Henley's version better but its hard to find a video of it and not worth generating his copyright wrath to link to it if I do)

    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
    Everybody knows that the captain lied
    Everybody got this broken feeling
    Like their father or their dog just died


    I just read (none / 0) (#9)
    by Peter G on Thu Nov 10, 2016 at 07:49:03 PM EST
    that Leonard Cohen died today, at age 82.

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    The topic here is foreign media (none / 0) (#5)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 11:10:04 PM EST
    response to Trump becoming President. Please don't post anti-Hillary screeds by Americans here, wherever they are published.

    How about my older sister's response? (none / 0) (#6)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Thu Nov 10, 2016 at 01:59:38 AM EST
    She lives in southern France right outside the city of Grasse, which is in the mountains just to the north of Nice and Cannes. She told me that her in-laws and neighbors all think we've lost our cotton-pickin' minds with Trump. They don't trust Trump at all, particularly after he jumped to conclusions following the tragedy in nice last July 14.

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    Site violator (none / 0) (#8)
    by Yman on Thu Nov 10, 2016 at 06:21:03 AM EST