Team News Riveting
New York, September 23
President Donald Trump delivered an hourlong speech before the General Assembly on Tuesday; criticized the United Nations’ as ineffective on Tuesday and lectured its member nations on how they are failing in a meandering.
The American media reported that his speech was filled with familiar grievances and false claims. Speaking before him, the U.N.’s secretary general warned that the organization’s principles “are under siege.”
Boasting about his own record and questioning whether the U.N. served a purpose, Trump sought to portray himself as the only leader who could solve the world’s problems. “I’m really good at this stuff,” he said. “Your countries are going to hell.”
As the General Assembly convened on its 80th anniversary with wars raging in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, the American President also claimed that he had resolved conflicts around the world while the U.N. had done nothing. “Sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any of them,” he said.
Calling climate change the “greatest con job” ever perpetrated on the world, Trump accused environmentalists of wanting to “kill all the cows.” He personally insulted the Muslim mayor of London and claimed that Muslims in the West are planning to institute Shariah law, the media reports said.
While taking credit for ending conflicts between Israel and Iran, Cambodia and Thailand, and Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump blamed his predecessor Joseph R. Biden for Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine.
He also said China and India were financing the Ukraine war because they purchase oil from Russia. He said he was ready impose more tariffs on Russia and its’ oil customers if Moscow does not agree to a cease-fire, but he would do so only if Europe also ends all purchases of Russian oil and gas.
The U.N. Security Council convened back-to-back sessions on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine in the afternoon, with many foreign ministers in attendance. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who is expected to meet with Trump on Tuesday, will address the Council. The Council has not acted in either conflict, blocked by the veto power of Russia in the case of Ukraine and of the United States in support of Israel.
