America’s neighbors embrace Trump after election win

Trump won in a landslide, winning every swing state and becoming the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. The leaders of the United States’s northern and southern neighbors expressed their congratulations to Trump on Wednesday after his victory was officially confirmed.

“On behalf of the Government of Canada, I congratulate Donald Trump on being elected as President of the United States of America for a second term, and Senator JD Vance for his election as Vice-President of the United States,” Trudeau said in a statement.

The Canadian leader touted the U.S. and Canada’s relationship as “the world’s most successful partnership,” saying that the two are “neighbors and friends, united by a shared history, common values, and steadfast ties between our peoples. We are also each other’s largest trade partners and our economies are deeply intertwined.”

He recalled Trump renegotiating the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, which helps manage the trade valued at over $1.3 trillion in 2023 alone.

“We look forward to working with President-elect Trump and his administration, including on issues such as trade, investment, and continental peace and security,” Trudeau concluded.

In a speech to the Canadian Parliament, the Canadian prime minister said that Trump’s victory on Tuesday was “decisive.”

Sheinbaum expressed a similar sentiment.

“I would like to express my most sincere congratulations to Donald Trump, who won the presidential election of the United States of America,” she said in a post on X.

“I am certain that we will continue to work together in a coordinated manner, with dialogue and respect for our sovereignties, to advance the broad bilateral agenda that links us,” Sheinbaum added.

Speaking to Mexicans, she assured her constituents at a press conference that “there’s nothing to worry about.”

“We are a free, independent, sovereign country and there will be good relations with the United States. I am convinced of this,” she added, the Guardian reported.

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Both Trudeau and Sheinbaum are well to Trump’s left ideologically. Trudeau faces a tough election next year, where he is expected to be unseated by the Conservative Party, while Sheinbaum will serve her six-year term throughout Trump’s term, only stepping down in 2030.

Other allies voiced optimism about a new Trump administration as well. South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said he was confident that “we will be able to forge an even closer relationship with the new U.S. administration.”