U.S. allies, haunted by past Trump insults, race to delete posts and praise election victor

After winning the Electoral College and the popular vote, President-elect Donald Trump held phone calls with foreign leaders, including Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and Xi Jinping of China who both congratulated him and pledged to work together. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.

Donald Trump's presidential victory means some U.S. allies may have to reckon with prior scathing remarks as their countries prepare to build diplomatic ties with a president-elect whose return they may not have anticipated. “The most destructive president in history,” Australian Ambassador to the U.S. Kevin Rudd said of Trump in 2020, who “drags America and democracy through the mud.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer offered his “hearty congratulations” to Trump after his “historic victory,” a spokeswoman for the prime minister's office said in a statement Wednesday. Charles Parton, who served as a British diplomat for almost four decades, said that “the Labour Party has got some grounds to make up” after a perception that Starmer's party had favored the Democrats.

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