Nov 6 - U.S. voters have elected Donald Trump president, capping a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out of the White House and ushering in a new American leadership likely to test democratic institutions at home and relations abroad.
The New York Times, said Trump's "remarkable return to power" ushers in a new era of uncertainty. He appealed to millions of Americans who felt the American Dream was drifting away from them, it wrote, while to the half of the country who did not vote for him he represents a dark turn for democracy after he "openly talked about undermining the rule of law."
In a story headlined the "King of All Comebacks," an opinion columnist for The New York Post, said he had been wrong in his previous opinion that Trump was so polarizing he would divide his party and hand the presidency to the Democrats. "As politics go, this was a resurrection," he wrote.
Trump's legal problems are likely now over, said Politico. He didn't just beat Kamala Harris, he beat the system that tried to put him in prison, it wrote, saying: "The criminal candidate will now effectively be his own judge and jury."
Fox News, said Trump's victory was powered by his strength on the economy and immigration – two of voters' top concerns. Americans remembered life under his administration "more fondly" than under the current administration of President Joe Biden, it wrote.
The Jerusalem Post, chalked up July's failed assassination attempt on Trump and his defiant reaction as a key moment that "became pivotal in reshaping public perception." For his supporters, the election no longer became about policy, but about a man who "refused to fall," it said.
It was anger that won Trump this election, a columnist for Al Jazeera, said. Tapping into the feeling that many Americans shared of "being ignored, let down, patronised and left behind by the 'elite,'" he channeled that emotion to his benefit, she wrote.
In France, an editorial in Le Monde, said Europeans have bad memories of Trump's presidency and a second will be "even more perilous." It said: "Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism."
"America knew that he was a convicted criminal, serial liar and racist," said The Guardian. In 2016 his victory was "a leap into the political unknown. This time there is no excuse," it wrote. His appeal came down to his celebrity persona and his ability to tap into voters' anxieties about loss of economic status and cultural change, it said.
