Donald Trump may have turned the U.S. red, but in Europe the airwaves and front pages turned blue as the very tribally left-wing legacy media vented their disappointment at the American people not voting as wanted.
German broadsheet newspaper Die Zeit said it for many in the European media on Wednesday morning with their reaction to the re-election of President-elect Trump, stating in their headline simply: “Fuck”. The colourful article comparing election night coverage to staring into a nuclear bomb’s mushroom cloud lamented “America doesn’t care at all” about European feelings.
Leaning into the now well-established trope that an election is a sure sign that democracy is dying, the article’s author rhetorically asked whether this was to be the end of America, writing: “American democracy is so old, it can handle it. The Egyptian Empire, the Roman Empire –…
