The British Media Meltdown
‘This is America’s darkest dawn’: How the Left-wing media reacted to Trump’s victory
As the scale of the Republican triumph became clear, commentators such as Emily Maitlis and Rory Stewart began to vent their dismay
Emily Maitlis on Channel 4’s election coverage. Left-leaning commentators began to vent their dismay at Trump’s win on TV and social media Credit: Bryan Dozier/Shutterstock for Channel Four
The Left-wing media has described Donald Trump’s victory as the “darkest dawn” for America in an outpouring of incredulity.
As the scale of Trump’s electoral triumph became clear, Left-leaning commentators began to vent their dismay on televison and social media.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the Channel 4 presenter, apologised for his guest Emily Maitlis’s on-air behaviour during election coverage as the inevitability of Kamala Harris’s defeat became clear.
He said he would “tell Emily off” as she had “started swearing” during the broadcast.
Writing in the i newspaper, commentator Ian Dunt declared that the election result was America’s “darkest dawn” and left a “taste of despair”.
Rory Stewart, who presents The Rest is Politics podcast, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that it was “heartbreaking” that Trump had been elected president.
The former Tory MP had proclaimed that Harris would win with ease and claimed to have bet heavily on that result, only to be left deflated during live coverage of the election.
A dejected Mr Stewart said that he “got it totally wrong” but claimed: “I think I was wrong because I’m [an] optimist. I hate the idea of being right pessimistically.”
The Guardian newspaper sent out a notification as the result was put beyond doubt, branding Trump’s victory as the “first for a convicted criminal”.
The Guardian described Trump’s victory as him becoming the “first convicted criminal” to be elected president
Katharine Viner, The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, sought to reassure readers following the news of Trump’s victory. In an editorial, she wrote that the paper would “stand up to four more years of Donald Trump”, and that the election was an “extraordinary, devastating moment in the history of the United States”.
Ms Viner added: “With Trump months away from taking office again – with dramatic implications for wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the health of American democracy, reproductive rights, inequality and, perhaps most of all, our collective environmental future – it’s time for us to redouble our efforts to hold the president-elect and those who surround him to account.”
Above an invitation to donate to The Guardian, the editorial signs off: “We will stand up to these threats, but it will take brave, well-funded independent journalism. It will take reporting that can’t be leaned upon by a billionaire owner terrified of retribution from a bully in the White House.”
Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer journalist best known for her legal battles with pro-Brexit businessman Aaron Banks, also lamented the result. She wrote on X that “democracy died in darkness”, and claimed that the US was now an “oligarchy” on par with “90s Russia”.
Carol Vorderman, the Countdown star turned political commentator, said: “God help America” on X as the result became clear.
Chris Packham, the BBC presenter and environmental activist, shared his concerns with the incoming president, writing on X: “Things have just got a lot more difficult. Here’s what I think. I had no control over what just happened. None.
“But I do have control over how I will react to it. And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good, the grip on my dreams just got tighter.”
Meanwhile, Paul Mason, the former economics editor of BBC’s Newsnight, claimed in a piece for the anti-Brexit paper The New European that America was “in the grip of the fascist process”, while LBC radio host James O’Brien, a former Newsnight presenter, wrote on X: “What fresh hell is this?”
Former British diplomat and left-wing podcaster Alexandra Hall Hall complained on X: “Brexit was a lie. The royal family is a racket. Our politicians are plastic. Our system is feeble; our defences a joke.”
Peter Jukes, co-founder of the left-wing publication The Byline Times, warned that Britain needs to secure itself “against the influx of dark US money and the influence of foreign oligarchs”.
In the US, Jake Tapper, the CNN news anchor, was stunned by analysis which showed that Harris had not outperformed Joe Biden in a single county, saying “holy smokes” when presented with a map showing the scale of her defeat.
On MSNBC, Joy Reid, the Left-wing commentator, claimed that Ms Harris’s campaign had been “flawless”, despite its end result, and cited the number of celebrity endorsements the Democratic candidate had received.
She claimed that Harris had won over the Swifties, fans of Taylor Swift, and said she was shocked at the rejection of the Democrats at the polls.
Comedian Jason Manford claimed on X that he awoke to the news of a “psychopath being declared president”, and Countdown etymologist Sue Dent shared the definition for recrudescence, the “return of something terrible after a time of reprieve” in an apparent reference to the election.
Other celebrities who had endorsed Harris included Bruce Springsteen and Madonna, while US rapper Cardi B had been a vocal supporter of Harris in the build up to the election, and became embroiled in a row with the Trump-supporting Elon Musk after he accused her of being a “puppet” for the Left-wing cause.
Democrat blame game begins as Harris accused of picking wrong running mate
Democratic operatives also argue vice-president failed to stake out her policy positions and distance herself from Joe Biden
Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her running mate and vice-presidential candidate Credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Kamala Harris has been accused of picking the wrong running mate as the Democratic blame game over her humiliating election defeat began.
The US vice-president appeared on course to lose every one of the seven swing states that determined the White House race.
Ms Harris, 60, declined to address the nation on election night, leaving Democratic operatives to fill the vacuum.
Some blamed her choice of Tim Walz, the unassuming Minnesota governor, as her vice-presidential candidate.
The leading alternative had been Josh Shapiro, the charismatic and popular governor of all-important Pennsylvania.
Lindy Li, a Pennsylvania-based senior Democratic official, told Fox News: “People are wondering tonight what would have happened had Shapiro been on the ticket. And not only in terms of Pennsylvania.”
Ms Li said that as a moderate, Mr Shapiro “would have signalled to the American people that she is not the San Francisco liberal that Trump said she was”.
“But she went with someone actually to her Left,” she added. “In the eyes of the American people, Walz was the governor who oversaw the protests.”
Harris ‘failed to stake out policy positions’
Democratic operatives also argued Ms Harris had failed to stake out her policy positions and sufficiently distance herself from Joe Biden, who was underwater in public approval ratings.
They pinpointed her appearance on the talk show The View, when she was asked what she would have done differently to Mr Biden during the last four years, and replied: “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”
Meanwhile Joy Reid, the MSNBC commentator, blamed white women in North Carolina for the Democrat’s loss in the swing state.
“In the end, they didn’t make their numbers. We have to be blunt about why, black voters came through for Harris, white women voters did not,” she said.
Van Jones, a CNN contributor and former Barack Obama adviser, criticised the Harris campaign’s focus on celebrity-filled rallies.
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“I don’t think people understand, working people sometimes have to choose. Am I going to go to the big, cool concert and pay for babysitting for that or am I going to figure out a way to get to the polls? I don’t like these big star-studded events,” he said.
A Trump victory is awful for Starmer – and a nightmare for David Lammy
David Lammy had made no secret of his hostility towards Trump Credit: Stefan Rousseau/Reuters
As election hangovers go, Keir Starmer’s will be only slightly less painful than that of Kamala Harris.
With not a great deal going right for the Labour Government on the domestic front, the last thing the prime minister needs is a new American president who bears a grudge. But that’s what he’s got.
In the heady days after Joe Biden finally and belatedly called it a day and handed the torch of the Democratic Party to his vice-president, when polling suggested Kamala was about to sweep all before her, the Labour Party went a bit giddy with excitement and publicly announced it was lending the Democrats a hand.
Who cared if The Orange One resented the participation in the presidential election of 100 Labour activists and staffers? He was a dead-cert loser, and the party would enjoy the gratitude of President Harris for the next four years.
Well, “oops”, as they say.
Starmer might now reflect that as well as having to offer a craven apology to the once and future President Trump for his party’s ill-advised bout of amateurish virtue signalling, he has a more pressing problem to hand in the shape of his foreign secretary.
In his constant and never-failing desire to please whichever audience he’s speaking to, David Lammy once described Trump as a “Neo-Nazi sociopath”. Which is the sort of thing you might call someone if you (a) are a precocious sixth-former in the school debating society, or (b) do not expect ever to be in the same room with the target of your criticisms.
Now, as Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Lammy is our chief representative abroad, including to the United States. Not only has he needlessly thrown a stupid insult at the victor of the 2024 presidential election, but in doing so he has basically accused the American electorate of electing someone unfit for the most important elected office in the world.
The arguments that might be made in defence of Lammy’s opinion are neither here nor there: our foreign secretary needs to maintain the best possible relations with our most important ally. David Lammy has talked himself out of that job.
We cannot allow any foreign power to decide who serves in the UK cabinet and in what position. However, sacking or demoting Lammy at the earliest opportunity would demonstrate to the incoming administration that Starmer is serious about repairing the damage Lammy, by his infantile language, has caused to the special relationship.
This Government may not be all that keen on post-EU “Global Britain”, but given that the last time Trump was in the White House, he was far keener than either his predecessor or his successor to give us a transatlantic trade deal, Lammy’s sacrifice would be a small price to pay for smoothing the way to such a breakthrough.
Beyond the immediate implications for the Government and its foreign secretary, Harris’s humiliating defeat at the hands of a man who, in more serious times, really should never have been able to come within shouting distance of the White House, ought to signal a major rethink of progressive Left-wing politics across the democratic west. But will it?
The lessons were all there to be learned in 2016, when an arrogant, entitled Democratic Party crowned Hillary Clinton as their surefire winner in that year’s election. After all, who could fail to lose against someone as unappealing as Trump? And yet somehow, Clinton’s disdain for working class Americans without college degrees and her obsession with the rights of trans people to use women’s bathrooms in Oklahoma didn’t strike a chord with the electorate. It was a real mystery.
Eight years later, Joe Biden could have chosen to accept the inevitability of his advancing years and allowed his party to choose a new candidate last year, allowing the victor to be subjected to the usual rigours and scrutiny of the primary process.
Instead he made it impossible for the party and the country to choose anyone other than Harris, a woman who, when she stood against Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2020, resigned from the race without winning a single delegate to her party’s national convention.
It wasn’t just the method of her becoming the candidate that rankled with voters; it was her policy platform. Across America – and indeed, across much of the Western world – the curse of woke is wreaking terrible damage to politics and to society.
Gender ideology and critical race theory have their roots in the US, but like any virus, they quickly made their way across the Atlantic. Few viral clips on social media did Harris more harm than the one in which she introduces herself to an audience – from behind a mask, obviously – as “Kamala Harris, she/her”.
It’s not the self-congratulatory smugness that irked; it was the assumption that the cult of the pronoun is now not only obligatory but normal. Does she really not know how much ordinary Americans object to such nonsense? Does she not realise that many voters lump such language in with “taking the knee” and demands by Black Lives Matter protesters to “defund the police”? It’s all toxic – the language, the smugness and the policies that the White House advocated in the last four years to push the agenda.
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The “Education” of Charles Moscowitz
In a world where whispers weave through the air,
Lies a man named Charles, with a devil-may-care.
He belongs to a tribe, so special and rare,
They say they own media—oh, isn’t it fair?
With a wink and a nod, he walks with such pride,
“Media Guy?” you ask, and he chuckles inside.
For he knows the secrets that others can’t see,
How to twist every tale like a masterful spree.
“Oh yes,” he grins, “I’m your Media Man,
With a flick of my wrist, I’ll control all the plans.
I’ll guide your thoughts like a ship on the sea,
While you sip your soda and think you are free.”
Flash & the Pan plays in the back of his mind,
“Media Man” echoes—oh, how well it’s designed!
He chuckles at headlines that dance on the screen,
“Just puppets and marionettes—what a scene!”
The masses consume what he feeds them with glee,
A buffet of nonsense wrapped up in TV.
“Who needs the truth when illusion is grand?
Just follow my lead—don’t you understand?”
So here’s to dear Charles, with his cunning finesse,
In a world full of chaos, he’ll clean up the mess.
With irony thick as the smoke in the air,
He laughs at the notion—oh, isn’t it fair?
“Media Guy?” they say with a glimmering eye,
He just raises a brow and lets out a sly sigh.
For in this grand theater where shadows play tricks,
It’s all just a game—oh, what clever little picks!
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Well, Labour has nothing to worry about from the Tories. Brits aren’t going to be electing a hate-filled anti-White African bitch anytime too soon.
The new Con Party leader has been described by Black Leftwing Labourites as a Coconut front for “white supremacy”!! She has certainly been critical of much DIE wokery and is a civic nationalist, citing (Uncle) Tom Sewell as a mentor. Having a Yoruba called Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke as the “Tory” successor to Robert Peel, Lord Salisbury, Winston Churchill (who wanted a KBW policy) and Margaret Thatcher, however, certainly marks a sea-change in UK politics. On immigration, the problem is that she advertises Britain as a pleasant place and welcoming destination, for others to follow her example. By contrast the Kurdish Con PM Nadim Zahawi recently drew attention to the African migration problem, a warning that fell like a lead balloon. Meanwhile, the “undocumented” immigrants continue to come into “the island set in a silver sea”.