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Donald Trump completed an extraordinary political resurrection early Wednesday morning when he sealed the win in the 2024 Presidential election.
Elected the 47th president of the United States, Trump becomes the first convicted criminal to win the White House. At 78, he is also the oldest person ever elected to the office and the second to win nonconsecutive terms after Grover Cleveland. Here’s how the media is covering the win.
“Don Deal,” the New York Post’s digital headline read early this morning. The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid endorsed Trump back in October, describing the former real estate investor as “the clear choice for a better future.” The newspaper’s morning print edition features a smiling Trump with the headline “He’s Don It Again!” along with the tagline “Trump Pulls Of Comeback For The Ages With Election Win.”
“America wants Trump — no ifs or buts,” the Financial Times titled an early reaction piece while Vanity Fair, using a striking digital front cover posted on X in the early hours, collated a damning resume of Trump’s criminal and legal woes. “34 felony counts, 1 conviction, 2 cases pending, 2 impeachments, 6 bankruptcies, 4 more years” is scrawled onto the side of the cover alongside a mean-mugging image of Trump with the tagline: The 47th American President.
Donald Trump has won the 2024 election.
Four years after launching an unprecedented attack on democracy and leaving the White House in disgrace, the convicted felon will return to Washington, DC, as the 47th president of the United States.
Sending out an alert to its subscribers, The Guardian newspaper, according to its UK political editor Pippa Crerar, headlined its election victory story: “Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become first convicted criminal to be elected US president.”
“Trump Storms Back,” the New York Times titled a piece on Trump’s win, writing that the President-elect is set to usher in a “new era of uncertainty” fueled by his campaign, which “played on fears of immigrants and economic worries.”
“His victory signaled the advent of isolationism, sweeping tariffs, and score-settling,” the paper wrote.
In a swift reaction piece in The New Yorker titled “Donald Trump’s Revenge,” Susan Glasser highlighted what she described as the “extreme and radical agenda” Trump has hinted he plans to chase during his second term.
“The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before,” Glasser wrote.
The Spectator magazine welcomed Trump’s win with a story by political writer Brendan O’Neill titled “Donald Trump and the Revenge of the Deplorables.” The magazine suggests Trump’s re-election is a rejection of traditional Washington elitism.
“So now we know what happens when you sneer at voters as ‘garbage’. When you view them as ‘deplorables’. When you treat them as the dim stooges of demagoguery, the playthings of powerful men,” O’Neill wrote.
Donald Trump has had a contentious relationship with traditional media outlets from the start of his political operation in 2016. With today’s win, the friction between the former Apprentice presenter and journalists he doesn’t agree with is unlikely to soften.
In a speech claiming victory on Wednesday morning, Trump described some parts of the U.S. media as “the enemy camp.”
The full quote from Trump was in reference to what he described as JD Vance’s effective appearances on network new television.
“I told JD to go into the enemy camp. He just goes: OK. Which one? CNN? MSNBC? He’s like the only guy who looks forward to going on, and then just absolutely obliterates them,” Trump said.
Kamala Harris did not speak to the media early Wednesday morning. Multiple outlets are reporting that she will address her supporters later in the day.
