#4 of 10 Most Popular News Galleries of 2016: Newspapers around the world react to Donald Trump’s victory

(Originally posted on November 9, 2016)

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Donald Trump's victory on Election Day was notable not only that it contradicted the polls, but that it defied the entire newspaper opinion-page consensus that the Republican nominee was not fit for the presidency. Newspapers that had historically only endorsed Republicans and publications that had never endorsed anyone before slammed Trump's candidacy. But the defiant developer, who accused the media of somehow rigging the election, was not harmed by the criticism.

Here's how the newspapers that once mocked his candidacy reacted to his victory.

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