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Global press asks if the midterms ended the era of the MAGA women
International front pages on Wednesday, November 5, 2026, reacted to the Democrats' midterm election victory, with the Times of London saying the results signal the end of the "Botox, heels and hair of the MAGA woman".
The end of the Mar-a-Lago face?
The Times of London read the midterm elections through aesthetics as much as politics, telling readers the results signal the end of the "Botox, heels and hair of the MAGA woman". The paper summed up the departing look in one line:
They came, they saw, they conker tanned, Spanxed and gold leafed not just the White House but the world stage.
According to the report, for nearly a decade many women aspired to the "Mar-a-Lago face" and tradwife "raw milkmaid" dresses. That era, the Times suggested, gives way to sensible pantsuits - a style embodied by Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa.
Democrats' victory in the midterms
The Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress in the vote, and the report notes that the threat of impeachment could now loom over Trump. Front pages across the world registered the scale of the Democrats victory on Wednesday.
- •Libération distilled the result for Trump into a single front-page word: "Loser".
- •The Daily Mirror saw politics "Reborn in the USA".
- •The Guardian wrote that Republicans were "Trumped" after Democratic wins in Texas and Ohio in Senate and governor races.
- •La Croix described a "Democratic jolt", saying Trump is "paying the price" for rising petrol prices it linked to his war against Iran.
- •L'Humanité, the French Communist paper, compared French protesters preparing for a day of demonstrations with a Trump whose head it described as "hanging low".
A new Congress and a boxed-in Trump
Commentators weighed what a constrained second stretch looks like for a president whose party lost both chambers. National Review called the results a "repudiation to Trump", arguing that sheer exhaustion defines the public's response to him, while Metro's front page branded him "Lame Donald Duck".
Foreign Affairs recalled that Bill Clinton, as a previous "lame duck" president, used his final stretch to negotiate a final settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - and suggested a boxed-in Trump might instead lash out internationally, with threats against Canada, attacks on alliances, or collusion with Russia and China.
Israeli papers saw a rupture coming. Israel Hayom, the pro-Netanyahu conservative daily, ran a photo of new Michigan senator Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim senator in the US, and called the incoming Congress the "most hostile to Israel in history".
Haaretz announced a transformation in US-Israeli relations, warning that Israelis who have enjoyed US protection for the past three decades are not ready for what is to come. The Italian pro-Meloni daily Libero kept the presidency itself in view, headlining "Trump cries, Islam laughs" and noting he remains president and still runs US foreign policy.
"Make America sexy again?"
With the new faces of the Democrats victory in view - wins by James Talarico, Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-Sayed - the press review posed its own question: are the Democrats trying to make America sexy again?
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