Donald Trump’s stunning political comeback to win the US election has been welcomed with open arms by some of Australia’s biggest sporting names, including a TV star, NRL club boss, NBA great and football legend. boxing.
Trump, 78, scored a remarkable victory in the 2024 presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in the key states of North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Not long after the result was beyond doubt on Tuesday night Australian time, sports luminaries such as former NBA star Andrew Bogut and former UFC world champion Israel Adesanya went online to share their joy for victory.
While many remained silent on the election results, some spoke out about the groundbreaking news, with former Australian basketball star Bogut taking to X (formerly Twitter) to urge the Australian public to “wake up.”
He wrote: ‘Australia: usually a few years behind the United States, but in the end it follows.
“Wake up, wake up, people of Australia.”
Several Australian sports stars, including boxer Danny Green, have expressed their thoughts following Donald Trump’s election announcement.
Former NBA star Andrew Bogut also spoke out online following the news that Trump would return to the White House.
Green posted several memes of Donald Trump dancing on his Instagram Story on Wednesday.
Nigerian-New Zealand MMA star Adesanya seemed to be enjoying what was happening in America and posted three popcorn emojis before writing an eight-word statement on the news.
‘The best season of ‘Murica is here!!’ he wrote, ironically, adding several fire emojis and two hashtags that read ‘#USA’ and ‘#secretservicewasabouttoslide.’
Australian sports broadcaster Lucy Zelic also took to social media to make a joke about Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd.
He posted a screenshot of a Sky News headline that appeared to recount a comment by Rudd. It read: “”Donald Trump is the most destructive president in history”: US Ambassador Kevin Rudd deletes anti-Trump comments from social media.”
Zelic replied: ‘Hahahahaha! Great, Kev.
Meanwhile, Canterbury Bulldogs boss and AFL great Phil Gould had only one word to say about the news.
Responding to a post by author Nick Adams that appeared to recite comments by American writer Scott Jennings, who stated: ‘This election is a kind of critique of the political information complex. The story that was portrayed was not true. “We were just ignoring the fundamentals.”
Gould quoted the Tweet before simply writing: ‘Yes…’
Lucy Zelic tweeted an image of a Sky News headline relating to US ambassador Kevin Rudd, before writing: ‘Hahahahaha! Great, Kev.
Israel Adesanya also posted on his social media, writing on X: ‘The best season of ‘Murica is here!!’
Andrew Bogut, however, called on the people of Australia to wake up after Trump’s victory.
Former AFL star Sam Newman also expressed his opinion on the election result on Instagram.
Neil captioned the post: “Trump, Trump, Trump.” Don’t say more. The pathetic bargainers and sheep who did EVERYTHING to ennoble him, here and abroad, had no choice.’
Former AFL star Sam Newman also expressed his opinion on the election result on Instagram.
He posted a video of himself giving an impassioned speech about the result, captioning it: “Trump, Trump, Trump.” Don’t say more.
‘The pathetic bargainers and sheep who did EVERYTHING to ennoble it, here and abroad, had no choice.
Harris was as bad as you can get. Plus Mark Robinson in a great talk. You can’t be serious.
During the video, the former Geelong star, known as one of football’s most outspoken characters, criticized Channel Nine for its election coverage.
“Are we going to be honest with some of the people who have talked about him?” he said during the video.
“I spoke to Mark Robinson, the Herald Sun’s chief football editor and I recently left AFL360. I had a fantastic chat with him and Doc Fordham, I couldn’t speak to him because he was doing fantastic coverage on Channel Nine. Channel Nine, how “Is it bad for them? They couldn’t have done anything more to get Kamala Harris over the line.”