BarcelonaMedia from all over the world have followed the indisputable victory of Donald Trump in the US elections. Although it is still early to see the news on the front pages of the paper editions of most newspapers, the digital versions already give an idea of how the American media has received Trump’s return to the White House. The New York Timeswhich had given explicit support to Kamala Harris assuring that she was “the only patriotic choice” for the presidency of the United States, opens its online edition with the headline “Trump storms back” [Trump ataca de nou]. The caption of the piece notes: “Impressive return to power after a dark and challenging campaign.”
“American voters have made the decision to return Donald Trump to the White House, which puts the nation on a precarious course that no one can fully foresee,” says the editorial in the New York Times.
Per la seva banda, the great tabloid of New York, the New York Postowned by Rupert Murdoch, has already published a first paper cover on which you can read an emphatic “He’s done it again”; a headline that in the English version –He’s Don it again– puns on the future president’s name, Don, and the past participle of the verb fer, donewhich is pronounced the same.
Another of New York’s iconic publications, the weekly New Yorkerpublished a cover story this week that reflected on the dangers to Americans’ liberties that the final outcome of the election could pose. They illustrated it with a drawing by Barry Blitt that showed the Statue of Liberty walking on a tightrope.
He Washington Postwhich in this election has been surrounded by controversy after its owner, Jeff Bezos, prevented the newspaper from explicitly supporting Harris, opens its digital edition with a strong “Trump wins”. For his part, the Wall Street Journal opens edition with a neutral “Donald Trump, elected 47th President of the United States”.
As far as European newspapers are concerned, the election of Donald Trump is viewed with concern. The French Liberation titled “Donald Trump re-elected president for a nostalgic America” and accompanied by an image of the Republican back advancing towards the US flag.
Al Regne Unit the progressist Guardian says: “Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris and wins historic second term as president”. All the tabloids The Sunwhich like the New York Post also owned by Rupert Murdoch, title “A new Don emerges”; a phrase that can be understood as a play on words in its original version –A new Don rises– because in English the word donborrowed from Italian, is used to refer to a mafia boss. Despite the more than likely pun, the Sun reinforces the idea that Donald Trump has changed his bellicose attitude after winning the election and his caption reads: “In celebration of his historic victory Trump promises to ‘heal’ America after ‘God saved his life for a reason””.
