Foreign leaders and governments react as Trump wins 2024 U.S. presidential election

With former President Donald Trump set to reprise his role as the commander in chief of the world's most powerful military and largest economy — and with him wasting no time in claiming victory in the U.S. presidential election — leaders around the world started reacting Wednesday to the reality of a second term in the White House for the businessman-turned politician.

From enthusiasm voiced by Israel's leader as he wages an expanding, multi-front war to anxiety from some of America's closest, generations-old European allies, the reaction to Trump's election performance started rolling in long before the final votes were counted across the U.S.

Below is a look at how some foreign leaders and governments around the world have taken the news of the American electorate's apparent rebuke of Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party at the polls.