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PBS News Hour - Segments

How world leaders are reacting to Trump's election win

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Donald Trump's victory is headline news across the world. The president-elect and his team are vowing to dramatically change U.S. foreign policy. Nick Schifrin reports on the international reaction to the election. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Donald Trump's victory is headline news across the world. The president-elect and his team

0:05.7

are vowing to dramatically change U.S. foreign policy. Nick Schiffren's here now. He's been tracking

0:10.6

international reaction to the election. Good to see you, Nick. We knew the world would be watching,

0:15.3

so let's start in Europe. What's been the reaction there, and what could be the impact on Ukraine?

0:19.8

European officials in public put a brave face, but multiple European officials to me admitted

0:24.7

today that they feared Trump will treat them as an economic foe, will undermine NATO, and

0:29.6

will abandon Ukraine. Trump has promised to end the war in Ukraine before inauguration, actually,

0:36.0

and he's given no details. But the vice president-elect

0:38.8

has suggested that the plan could be Russia keeps territory occupied, create a demilitarized zone,

0:44.6

and Ukraine gives up on its NATO aspirations. That is a non-starter, of course, for Ukraine.

0:49.8

But President Trump will have enormous leverage over Ukraine. The U.S. by far is the largest military donor to Ukraine.

0:57.4

And U.S. officials are telling Europe, essentially today, hey, look, this is going to be your problem.

1:01.9

You have to help Ukraine.

1:03.1

But there is no replacement for U.S. weapons on the battlefield, and Ukraine will really struggle without them.

1:08.9

Now, in public, as I said, everybody's saying nice things.

1:12.0

Alensky spoke to President Trump and said, quote,

1:15.0

congratulated him on his historic landside victory.

1:18.0

His tremendous campaign made this result possible.

1:21.1

French President Manuel Macron on X wrote,

1:23.6

congratulations President Donald Trump,

1:25.4

ready to work together as we did for four years with your convictions and mine, with respect and ambition for more peace and prosperity.

1:33.1

But, as I said, the European concern goes beyond Ukraine.

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