World leaders react to US election - with congratulations for Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : 'Yesssss, God bless Trump,' National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on X.Bezalel Smitrich said: 'God bless Israel, God bless America.'Another member of the government, Culture Minister Miki Zohar, said: 'We are looking forward to the next four years.'Dutch politician Geert Wilders also shared his congratulations to both Trump and America, writing on X: 'Never stop, always keep fighting and win elections!'Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that a Donald Trump win in the US election would probably be bad news for Ukraine, but said it was unclear how far Trump would be able to cut US financing for the war.
73% : Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban declared it 'the biggest comeback in US political history' in a triumphant post on X.The hard-right politician congratulated Trump on an 'enormous win' and labelled his success 'a much needed victory for the world'.El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele shared a picture of himself shaking hands with Trump on X with the caption: 'Congratulations to the President-Elect of the United States of America, May God bless and guide you.'El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele shared a picture of himself shaking hands with TrumpFar-right ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government celebrated on Wednesday as Donald Trump claimed victory in the U.S. presidential election.
59% : Trump claimed victory in the race after Fox News projected that he had defeated Democrat Kamala Harris, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House.High-profile allies of the Republican nominee have hailed the result as a decisive Trump victory, even as most news outlets continue to say the race is too close to call.
58% : However most governments and world leaders have so far been cautious to declare a victory for Trump in the race.
33% : 'Trump has one useful quality for us: as a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers-on and stupid hanger-on allies, on bad charity projects and on voracious international organisations,' Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official, posted on his official Telegram account.
33% : He said that the Ukrainian authorities fell into the category of people Trump was likely to not want to spend too much money on and suggested the Ukrainian leadership would be doing what it could to console itself if it was confirmed he had won.
18% : 'The question is how much Trump will be forced to give to the war.

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