Foreign leaders react as Donald Trump wins 2024 U.S. election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : Israeli 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 Israel and America," Netanyahu said.
79% : In a social media post, Starmer offered his congratulations to Trump "on your historic election victory," adding that he looks forward to "working with you in the years ahead.
71% : ""Trump was and remains a big businessman in big politics.
59% : "Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Union bloc's governing body, the European Commission, congratulated Trump on Wednesday and iterated her hope in a brief social media post 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.
56% : Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose role is largely symbolic, also congratulated Trump on his "historic return to the White House.
54% : In a message posted on social media, Orbán said Trump had pulled off "the biggest comeback in US political history," and he congratulated him on his "enormous win.
52% : In May, Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said "Trump got our allies to increase their NATO spending by demanding they pay up," and that if reelected, "he will restore peace and rebuild American strength and deterrence on the world stage.
46% : "There was no immediate reaction from President Vladimir Putin, who never spoke in favor of either candidate during the U.S. election campaign process, but whose leadership Trump has lauded previously.U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer did his best Wednesday, despite a clear delineation between his own policies and those expected of another Trump administration, to maintain the decorum of the storied "special friendship" between the two nations.
41% : "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 European 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!"
35% : "Orban has made himself an outsider among European Union leaders by endorsing anti-immigrant policies and maintaining close ties with President Vladimir Putin amid Russia's ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine -- all while touting his close ties to Trump.
30% : Trump shocked many of America's closest allies during and after his first term by openly criticizing their funding commitments, and during the 2024 presidential campaign he said calling on allies to increase their defense spending would be a policy he aggressively pursued if reelected.
19% : "Trump has criticized many of the NATO alliance's European members for failing to commit at least 2% of their national GDPs to their defense budgets.

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