Mexico: the nightmare has begun
DONALD TRUMP’S inauguration sparked a media frenzy around the world – with most countries’ newspapers dedicating their front pages to the new President .
Mexican paper San Luis Hoy led with a picture of a ranting President Trump and the words Inicia La Pesadilla – which translates as The Nightmare Begins.
Mexico will have special reason to pay close attention to its neighbour, with President Trump threatening to build a wall along its vast border with the US to keep out illegal immigrants.
The new Commander-in-Chief also attracted fierce criticism when he implied on the campaign trail that Mexicans were rapists.
Other Mexican papers were more subtle in their criticism. El Mexicano’s front-page headline read: ‘Trump enciende ira’ (Trump turns on anger), while El Occidentale had ‘Showtime’ over a montage of the President and the protests against his inauguration that erupted in Washington on Friday.
Meanwhile, in Trump’s ancestral homeland of Germany, newspapers struck a cautious tone.
Der Spiegel portrayed a pool table with the cue ball carrying the American flag and the remaining balls as the flags of other countries. Vladimir Putin’s face was on the key ‘eight ball’. However, the Hamburger Morgenpost, which once called Mr Trump a ‘horror clown’, took a different tack. Its front-page headline – Jetzt gnade uns Gott! – is a pun, meaning either ‘now grace us’ or ‘God forgive us’. And tabloid Bild, which previously asked whether the new President was a ‘sex monster’, simply put ‘Die Trump Show’.
In Russia, to which Trump has indicated he will take a conciliatory approach, coverage of the inauguration was oddly muted.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda ran only a small picture of the President, and instead dedicated most of its front-page to a story about cars.