iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — News outlets across the globe are reacting after Donald Trump pulled off a stunning victory over rival Hillary Clinton. Here’s what the headlines are saying as the world wakes up to a new American president-elect.
Many portrayed the U.S. as a divided country. British newspaper The Daily Telegraph called the election “America’s Brexit” — referring to the UK’s narrow vote in June to leave the European Union, which contradicted most polls. The newspaper’s Wednesday front page reads: “Divided America bitter to the end.”
Page one of The Guardian says, “After a brutal contest that has riven America, a nation speaks.” The UK newspaper dubbed the U.S. the “Disunited States” and mentioned that financial markets went into turmoil as Trump appeared likely to win.
Wednesday’s i front page:
Disunited States#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers #election2016 pic.twitter.com/Rb02X7Dewi— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) November 9, 2016
On The New Zealand Herald’s front page, a photo of Donald Trump was accompanied by the words “DEAR AMERICA… NO YOU CAN’T!”
“Dear America… No you can’t” – NZ Herald’s anti-Trump frontpage on US election today: pic.twitter.com/Vvu1IE86qD
— Bryce Edwards (@bryce_edwards) November 8, 2016
The Iran Daily wrote on its Wednesday front page that “a polarized America” went to the polls and that the winner of the election “will inherit an anxious nation, angry and distrustful of leaders in Washington.”
NT News Australia invited Americans to move to Australia or at least go on vacation there: “Dear Americans, Today you will likely have a new President of the United States. No matter who wins, the nation is divided and it’s time for you to move … We have a lifestyle unmatched anywhere else Down Under. Even if you don’t want to move here, it’s time you came for a holiday.”
@washingtonpost @Colvinius is ours better?
pic.twitter.com/u78RhRj0C0— Manik Territory (@ManikTerritory) November 8, 2016
Mexican news site Animal Politico wrote about the fall of the Mexican peso in the wake of Donald Trump’s lead and that “Hillary needs a miracle” to win, while Mexican news website sinembargo.mx wrote that “Trump has surprised everyone” and that polls “seem to have failed.”
German magazine Der Spiegel wrote in an online article that “Trump versus Clinton will go down in the history of America as the dirtiest campaign in modern times,” and that it sometimes seemed as if “gifted scriptwriters” were involved in the campaign.
France’s Le Monde daily newspaper reported that Trump was “assured,” to carry the election after winning Pennsylvania and that global financial markets are “destabilized” by a possible Trump victory.
Polish Fakt wrote that Americans in despair want to emigrate to Poland.
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