MONROVIA, Montserrado – The recent U.S. election that saw the controversial Donald J. Trump defeat his rival, Hillary Clinton, seems not to be going down well with many people around the world, and Liberia is no exception.

Some world leaders, while congratulating the incoming American president, were shocked at his victory against Clinton, with her more measured tone and vast experience in government.

In an interview with BBC television after the election, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said, “We are extremely saddened by this missed opportunity on the part of the people of the United States to join smaller democracies in ending the marginalization of women.”

She made the statement in light of the missed potential for Hillary Clinton to have been elected as the first female president of the U.S. Additionally, Trump’s campaign was characterized by a string of misogynistic statements made both during the campaign period and unearthed from the past.

Sirleaf waited until eight days before issuing a congratulatory message to Trump.

Expressing solidarity with Sirleaf’s response was musical icon Miatta Fahnbulleh, who described the U.S. president-elect as the former German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Fahnbulleh said that she and millions of other people all over the world are witnessing the beginning of another Hitler, in Trump.

“I think as the campaign went on, it was so obvious that Donald Trump was not an individual that we knew anything of, that we could trust,” she said.

Fahnbulleh said she had hoped that a Clinton presidency, coupled with the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, would have started dislodging the “Big Boys Club” in the world.

She also called into question Trump’s experience and preparation for the job: “Trump will definitely find difficulty in governing because he’s never worked or being associated with any kind of system except business.” Fahnbulleh contended that nations are run differently than businesses.

Featured photo by Jefferson Krua