The mass propaganda media hacks in the U.S. are freaking out over the Trump landslide.
Equally entertaining, their counterparts in Western Europe are doing much the same.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Le Monde, for example, whose editors called Trump’s re-election:
[A] major turning point for the United States.
And declared:
[He’s] even more radical than eight years ago.
They asked, “What can the world expect now?” Their answer:
[A]n America that ceases to operate as an open and engaged superpower in the world, eager to establish itself as a democratic model—the famous ‘shining city on the hill’ praised by President Ronald Reagan. [Unlike the Gipper, Trump views the world] solely through the prism of American national interests [he embraces] power struggles and trade wars, disdains multilateralism, and reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.
True, Trump believes in America First—just as every Frenchman believes in France First. So did Ronald Reagan. But will America, during Trump’s second term, retreat from being an “engaged superpower?” Fat chance.
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the newspaper NRC ran an equally ridiculous piece by Roberto Schmidt. His point:
Never before have Americans elected a president with such openly authoritarian ambitions as Donald Trump. This authoritarianism could transform norms in American politics and make Trump a more powerful president than America has known before.
Hilariously, Schmidt warned that Trump would violate the unwritten rule—which, he asserted, has been in effect since the 1960s—that American presidents scrupulously stay “aloof from decisions” made by the Justice Department about “who will or won’t be prosecuted.” Perhaps Schmidt is worried he is on one of Trump’s lists. No need to worry, though, unless he is guilty of a crime.
Over to Sweden’s Aftonbladet, where political editor Anders Lindberg was concerned that with Trump in the White House, Sweden will be forced to protect its own national interests rather than relying on the U.S.
First, he said:
Trump is likely to try to pressure Ukraine into submission, perhaps even accepting land cessions to Russia in exchange for peace….We should oppose any peace terms other than those that the Ukrainian people themselves want.
Second:
Trump and his friends in the oil lobby are going as far as he can to destroy all international frameworks and efforts to save the climate.
Third, Lindberg warned:
Trump tariffs would kill free trade.
No mention of the trade practices of the EU, which just last week imposed new tariffs while it raised those on Chinese electric vehicles to nearly 50%.
At the Guardian (London), David Smith and Martin Pengelly predicted that Tuesday’s election results:
[Would] sound alarm bells in foreign capitals [because of Trump’s] overtures to authoritarians such as Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
Yes, those “overtures” to Putin that kept the latter from invading Ukraine during Trump’s first term, as he had during Obama’s presidency and would go on to do again during Dementia Joe’s.
In addition, the two Guardian hacks ludicrously described [What’s Her Name] as having ‘made…personal freedoms a rallying cry.’
In Norway, journalist Helge Lurås summed up on his Facebook page the verdicts of some of the nation’s major newspapers:
– ‘The world awoke to a new nightmare,’ proclaimed Dagsavisen’s Lars West Johnsen,
– In Aftenposten, Christina Pletten lamented that Trump’s second term will pose a ‘challenge’ to Norway and the rest of Europe,
– In Dagens Næringsliv, political editor Frithjof Jacobsen cautioned that the U.S. may be heading into a ‘majoritarian dictatorship’ like Hungary’s, and
– Nettavisen’s editor, Gunnar Stavrum, saw a silver lining in this very dark cloud: ‘the return of Trump could well force Norway to join the EU in order to avoid tariffs and trade wars.’
In the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, an article that cannot be considered anything but foolish, reporter Johannes Fjeld interviewed an “expert” on rhetoric about the speech Trump gave in Palm Beach after he was named the winner. The “expert,” Kjell Terje Ringdal, M.A., who teaches communication at Christiania University College, gave Trump a score of “E,” the lowest passing grade. Why? Three reasons:
– First, Trump’s failure to be inclusive enough in his speech suggested that it was fueled by a hostility toward ‘enemies’ such as the ‘evil state,’
– Second, Trump represented himself in the speech as a ‘Sun King’ who will stand up for Americans against all of his, and their, enemies, and
– Third, Trump’s story about Elon Musk’s rocket was ‘poorly told.’
The common theme above? Chronic lying, patronizing self-importance, and unmitigated idiocy—every damn one of them. Obviously these fools do not know anything about the real Donald J. Trump. Everything they think they know about Trump—and about the U.S. in general—they get from the New York Times and CNN. Ignorant bast**ds.
Final thoughts: No worries, though. Soon each member of the U.S. propaganda media will be speaking and printing truth—by law. Then, the world will not be lead astray about American Conservatism.
God speed to the Trump-Vance team.
