As Donald Trump clinched victory to become the 45th president of the US, most British opinion pages predicted doom and gloom, while one columnist argued that Trump\u2019s surprise win would benefit global security.<\/p>\n
The Guardian, one of the few papers to run a photo of Hillary Clinton on its front page on Wednesday morning, covered reactions from American voters on its front page, describing the 2016 election as \u201cbrutal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Responding to news of Clinton\u2019s defeat, liberal British columnist Jonathan Freedland wrote in the paper that the US has now stepped into an \u201cabyss\u201d<\/em> by electing a man \u201cwho revels in his own ignorance, racism and misogyny.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times echoed the sentiment, writing that \u201cTrump\u2019s proposed policies threaten to take an axe to the liberal world order that the US has supported and sustained since 1945.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Veteran Telegraph columnist Con Coughlin, however, countered that Trump\u2019s policies on Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) and Russia will \u201cmake the world a safer place.\u201d<\/em> Coughlin reassured readers that the checks and balances embedded in the US system will keep the billionaire real estate developer from making any \u201ccatastrophic errors\u201d<\/em> with the nuclear stockpile.<\/p>\n The front pages of the top papers meanwhile zeroed in on the stark divisions laid bare by the one of the most cutthroat election campaigns in recent history.<\/p>\n The Telegraph\u2019s front-page featured a photo of a beaming Trump and his wife Melania, calling the election \u201cthe most divisive\u2026 in US political history\u201d<\/em> and saying it had finally reached its \u201cbitter conclusion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Rupert Murdoch-owned Times ran a full-size photo of the former reality TV star on its front-page, under the headline \u201cTrump Surge: Outsider within Reach of the White House.\u201d<\/em> The Times article described incredulity at the victory, which defied polls that had predicted a comfortable win for Democratic contender Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n A handful of publications, including Murdoch\u2019s Sun and the Daily Mail, failed to make mention of the election on their front pages, focusing their morning editions instead on Prince Harry and his girlfriend Meghan Markle, who, according to Harry, has been subject to a \u201cwave of abuse\u201d<\/em> by the media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Donald Trump clinched victory to become the 45th president of the US, most British opinion pages predicted doom and gloom, while one columnist argued that Trump\u2019s surprise win would benefit global security. The Guardian, one of the few papers to run a photo of Hillary Clinton on its front page on Wednesday morning, covered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}