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The American people delivered a resounding victory for President Trump, and it gives him a mandate to govern as he campaigned, to deliver on the promises that he made,
Leavitt said
I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill,
Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity during a town hall event in December 2023This is a movement like nobody's ever seen before and, frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time,
Trump added
Trump’s relationship with Putin is unpredictable. While Trump might want to negotiate a peace deal, it’s unclear if that would align with Putin’s aims,
he said, highlighting the potential for a dramatic breakdown in relations if Putin miscalculates Trump’s intentions
Other global actors, especially North Korea, will likely be cautious about how they engage with Trump, knowing that he’s an unpredictable force in international relations,
he saidTrump is a very unpredictable individual when it comes to world affairs,
he saidA Trump 2.0 would be very different. He would not have any of those figures who did in fact restrain Trump at some point and in some fashion including at the Pentagon,
Finucane said
I think that his initial step would be some sort of very dramatic personal diplomacy – 'Vladimir, let's talk. We could resolve this,'
Aron saidI warmly congratulate Donald J. Trump. The EU and the U.S. are more than just allies. We are bound by a true partnership between our people, uniting 800 million citizens. Let us work together on a transatlantic partnership that continues to deliver for our citizens.”
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT URSULA VON DER LEYEN
Let’s not forget that we are talking about the unfriendly country that is both directly and indirectly involved in a war against our state.”
KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOVWe have many plans that we can execute in the coming year with President Donald Trump,
said Orbán, who on Thursday will hold a summit in Budapest for some 50 other European leaders – many of whom feel much more apprehensive about the impact of a second Trump presidency on Europe’s economy and security
Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America. This is a huge victory!”
ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIt is not all dark, but there are more challenges than opportunities. We are clear about the challenges. As for opportunities, we are yet to see them clearly.”
DA WEI, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in BeijingThe rules-based world order and the preservation of US domestic law as well as international laws — we see that has already been broken and undermined,
said Okail
Trump creates an opportunity for those who want to take a wrecking ball to the multilateral order.”
Vinjamuri at Chatham House saidHowever, this is a very narrow view of how [much] these leaders are actually in control of all the people [and groups] operating in the Middle East,
Okail explainedI will have that settled prior to taking the White House as president-elect,
Trump said at an event in JuneWhile Trump in the first term was sort of able to be swayed a little bit by his relationship at times with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping, we don’t really know what would happen now,
he also told Al JazeeraWe have to take Trump at face value.”
According to Leslie Vinjamuri, the director of the US and Americas programme at the think tank Chatham House in LondonThere are real concerns that Trump might push them harder on tariffs, on China, and be a very disruptive force to the G7, which many Europeans feel has been a very positive venue for collaborating, cooperating on economic and security issues,
she said, referencing the Group of Seven, a forum for some of the world’s largest economies