‘God Bless America’: How Biden’s Victory Reported by World Newspapers | US News

With headlines like “God Bless America,” powerful media around the world welcomed the defeat of Donald Trump, but warned that President-elect Joe Biden faced enormous challenges in healing America.

The international press also focused on the feat of Kamala Harris, Biden’s running mate, who will become the first woman of color to serve as vice president of the United States.

The Observer went with “It’s Joe,” while the Sunday Telegraph said “It’s time for America to recover” over a photo of Biden.

The Sunday Times used a photo of a celebrating black woman wrapped in the United States flag and the headline: “Sleepy Joe Wakes America Up,” mocking Trump using the derogatory nickname he had used for Biden.

The Sunday People tabloid resonated in capital letters: “GOD BLESS AMERICA.”

The German mass market newspaper Bild published a photo of Trump with the headline: “Exit without dignity.”

“What a release, what a relief,” reported the left-leaning German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung.

But he noted that Biden “inherits a heavy burden” unlike anything his predecessors faced, and warned that Trump accepting defeat was “unthinkable.”

While the American newspaper of record, the New York Times, interpreted it squarely with a “Biden defeats Trump” headline, the Australian tabloid Daily Telegraph, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, also focused on Trump’s expected defiance. and described it as a rage. “

“(Trump) will simply not accept the humiliation of seemingly being beaten up by an enemy that he perceived as weak and hardly worth showing up to fight,” he said.

Brazil’s mainstream media reported Trump’s defeat in the context of its own populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, who has likewise sought to diminish democratic institutions and reject science-based facts.

“Trump’s defeat punishes attacks against civilization, it is a lesson for Bolsonaro,” wrote Folha de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil’s leading newspapers.

“That the leaders of Brazil seize the spirit of the age, or die, like Trump, who is already too late.”

Spanish center-right newspaper El Mundo said Biden’s victory was a farewell to Trump’s populism and described Harris as a “symbol of renewal.”

Sweden’s leading daily, Dagens Nyheter, titled its editorial op-ed: “Bittersweet Victory: Biden Will Fight to Cure America.”

He described Biden’s vow to go back to normal as “mission impossible.”

“The election result shows a deeply divided country, and it will be difficult for Biden to carry out the reform program that he promised to his main voters,” the newspaper wrote.

The conservative Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet warned of the dangers posed by the many millions of Americans who will continue to believe Trump’s dangerous rhetoric that the election had been stolen.

“The elections are over, but the conflict continues,” read the headline.

“Half the country, at least half of those who voted, may have the lingering feeling that something is seriously wrong after months of battles and voices questioning the elections themselves. That the electoral system itself is rigged and cannot be trusted. “

On a lighter note, the Ayrshire Daily News, whose patch covers the Trump Turnberry golf course in Scotland, examined the result more locally.

“South Ayrshire Golf Club Owner Loses 2020 Presidential Election,” read its headline.