Foreign leaders react as Donald Trump claims victory in 2024 U.S. election

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Foreign leaders react as Donald Trump claims victory in 2024 U.S. election

With former President Donald Trump looking poised to reprise his role as the commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military and largest economy — and with him wasting no time in claiming victory in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election — leaders around the world started reacting Wednesday to the prospect of a second term in the White House for the businessman-turned politician.

From enthusiasm voiced by *******’s leader as he wages an expanding, multi-front war to anxiety from some of America’s closest, generations-old ********* allies, the reaction to Trump’s election performance started rolling in long before the final votes were counted in some of the key battle ground states across the U.S.

Below is a look at how some foreign leaders and others around the world have taken the news of the ********* electorate’s apparent rebuke of Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party at the polls.

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*******’s Benjamin Netanyahu

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his congratulations to Trump on Wednesday, calling his election performance “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 ******* and America,” Netanyahu said. “This is a huge victory!”

Despite Trump’s criticism of the ******** leader’s handling of the ongoing war against ****** in the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu was widely believed to favor the former U.S. leader in the U.S. election, as tension between Washington and Tel Aviv has risen sharply over the last year due to *******’s tactics in its multi-front war with Iranian-backed groups in the Middle East.

The war in Gaza, sparked by ******’ Oct. 7, 2023 ********** ******* that saw the militants ***** some 1,200 people and kidnap about 250 others, has now ******* more than 43,000 people in the ************ territory, according to its ******-run health ministry. ******* has also significantly ramped-up its ******** on Hezbollah, ******’ fellow-Iranian backed allies in Lebanon. The ******** offensive there has ******* more than 3,000 people, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

The Biden administration has continued pushing for cease-fires on both fronts, to no avail, and demanding that ******* do more to mitigate the devastating impact of the wars on civilians.

******** President Isaac Herzog, whose role is largely symbolic,

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on his “historic return to the White House.”

“You are a true and dear friend of *******, and a champion of peace and cooperation in our region,” Herzog said. “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 ******* and democratic State of *******, and all our people, I wish you much success.”

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán

One of the first foreign leaders to offer congratulations to Trump on Wednesday was one of the very few who openly backed him long before the final votes were cast in the U.S. Hungary’s far-right President Viktor Orbán, who’s been accused during his decades-long leadership of the eastern ********* nation of eroding its democratic institutions by giving himself more power and limiting that of the country’s courts and civil society institutions, called Trump’s apparent success “a much needed victory for the World!”

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, Orbán said 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 among ********* Union leaders by endorsing anti-immigrant policies and maintaining close ties with President Vladimir ****** amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine — all while touting his close ties to Trump.

In a speech over the summer, Orbán suggested 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.”

********* Union leader Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the ********* Union bloc’s governing body, the ********* Commission, congratulated Trump on Wednesday and iterated her hope in a brief

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that the U.S. and EU could “work together on a strong transatlantic agenda that keeps delivering” for citizens on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

“I warmly congratulate Donald J. Trump. The EU and the US are more than just allies,” Von der Leyen said. “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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Tucker Reals

Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com’s foreign editor, based in the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, prior to which he worked for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and London.

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