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So this was undiluted Trump - a defence of America and the nation state, an assault on multilateralism and globalism, a stream of consciousness with questionable assertions. Six years ago, Trump's audience at the UN laughed at his at times non-factual assertions; this year they listened largely in silence.
President Donald Trump excoriated European leaders about their efforts to slow irregular migration, claiming they have done little to prevent an influx of outsiders that has transformed the
White House demands investigation into stalled UN escalator that forced Trump and Melania to walk up, suspecting sabotage.
When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations’ rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter.
The president, in an address to the General Assembly, says the U.S. is doing the work the global body should be doing.
Trump has repeated a version of this claim for months. In his U.N. speech, Trump listed the conflicts: Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken.
Trump got easily provable facts wrong in his scripted speech to the United Nations. The White House did not respond to a request to back up his claims
In a major shift, Trump says for the first time that Ukraine could retake its lost borders with support from Nato and Europe.