In a speech that meandered from complaints about losing out on a contract to renovate the headquarters to recounting what he saw as his foreign policy successes, the president painted a picture of the U.N. as an outdated, ineffective organization and said he’s worked to end “seven wars” without any help.

 

Trump blasts the UN for not ‘living up’ to its potential

The president, in an address to the General Assembly, says the U.S. is doing the work the global body should be doing.

By  ELI STOKOLS

09/23/2025

 

“It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them,” Trump said. “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.”

Complaining about a busted teleprompter as he began his remarks and a broken escalator he had to ride upon entering the building moments earlier, Trump said the organization has “tremendous potential” but was failing to live up to it.

Even as he spoke about his desire for peace — and to receive the Nobel Peace Prize — Trump’s remarks were characteristically bellicose. He lectured other countries on immigration, telling European leaders that their inaction was “destroying” their countries and heritage. He warned drug cartels that he would “blow you out of existence.” And in asserting that allies’ recognition of Palestinian statehood would be “too great a reward for Hamas” and belittling climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” the president made clear that, on many subjects, America is now far apart from the broader global consensus.

“You’re destroying your countries,” he said, urging leaders to adopt his approach on immigration. “I can tell you I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”

In a stemwinder of a speech that lasted nearly an hour and seemed aimed as much at a domestic political audience as the world leaders in the room, Trump ripped U.N. efforts on climate change, urging other countries to purchase energy from the U.S. while vowing that America would no longer sacrifice in order to shift the world away from carbon-based energy.

“The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally, and it must be immediate,” Trumpsaid.

Trump took credit for pushing NATO to agree earlier this year to increase defense spending over the next decade, pressuring European countries to stop purchasing oil from Russia that helps subsidize its ongoing war in Ukraine.

He expressed a desire to see an end to that war and the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, but glossed over his own reluctance thus far to exert more pressure on the leaders of Russia and Israel to negotiate a lasting peace.

“I’ve come here today to offer the hand of American leadership and friendship to any nation in this assembly that is willing to join us in forging a safer, more prosperous world,” Trump said. “But to get there, we must reject the failed approaches of the past and work together to confront some of the greatest threats in history.”

Trump’s remarks, which began with an overview of his domestic accomplishments, were in many ways a reprisal of his inaugural address declaring the advent of a new “golden age” for America — and a reiteration of his oft-repeated attacks on former President Joe Biden, who he claimed squandered a world that was “prosperous and at peace” after Trump’s first term.

The president praised El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, for keeping deportees from the U.S. in “terrorist prisons.” His lengthy remarks about the need to secure borders and curtail illegal immigration were offered as a boast about his own administration’s actions and as a lecture to other nations, especially in Europe, which Trump claimed was being “invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before.”

“Not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should. Too often it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve,” Trump said. 

Singling out London mayor Sadiq Khan for criticism, Trump claimed that “now they want to go to sharia law” there. The president scolded leaders in Europe for failing to respond.

A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to delight in Trump admonishing European leaders. Kirill Dmitriev, a close Putin aide who’s met several times with Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, posted an image to social media showing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen watching stonefaced as the president spoke.

Following the speech and before he began a series of meetings with world leaders, Trump offered his own assessment of the speech in a social media post, writing that he felt it was “very well received” and noting that he’s been talking about the issues of energy and immigration “for a very long time.”

Speaking to reporters as he sat down with Secretary General Antonio Guterres later in the morning, Trump was more conciliatory. After Guterres described American leadership as “essential,” Trump expressed his support for the U.N. and its potential. 

“It can do so much. I’m behind it,” he said. “I may disagree with it sometimes, but I am so behind it.”

Trump echoed those more positive remarks in a short meeting with von der Leyen, who he described as “a very powerful, very smart woman.” Despite his sweeping broadsides toward Europe just hours earlier, he said she was doing “a fantastic job.”

While Guterres was diplomatic, Trump’s comments drew a strong rebuke from Federico Borello, the interim executive director at Human Rights Watch, who said in a statement that the president “made too many false claims about world affairs at the UN General Assembly to seriously address them” and lamented the hostility toward the organization from its most important benefactor.

“The UN has always had shortcomings, but it’s essential globally to monitor human rights, deliver humanitarian aid, protect refugees, and promote international accountability,” Borello continued. “Countries should reject out of hand Trump’s nonsensical proposals, like to undermine the global asylum system.”

During his official address, which was more than three times as long as the usual allotted time for leaders to speak, Trump also boasted about his extrajudicial strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug cartels. “People don’t like taking big loads of drugs in boats anymore,” Trump said, speaking directly to the cartels. “Please be warned that we will blow you out of existence.”

And he took a hard line on tariffs, saying that his broader trade war was “defensive,” aimed at protecting Americans or punishing other countries for various transgressions. Trump, in fact, singled out Brazil, asserting that the “major tariffs” he’s imposed on the country are a response to the government’s “targeting of political critics in the United States,” a reference to the case of former president and Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro.

But in an unscripted aside, Trump said that he spoke briefly backstage with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and that they agreed to meet next week. Despite the critical nature of the speech overall, some of Trump’s lighter riffs drew chuckles in the hall.

“During the campaign they had a hat, the best-selling hat ‘Trump was right about everything,’” he told the gathered world leaders while discussing climate change. “And I don’t say that in a bragging way but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/23/trump-blasts-un-peacemaking-00576177

 

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HOW MANY WARS DID TRUMP START?

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"This is Israel's war. This is not the United States' war."

The video was posted to YouTube less than two days after the US and Israel began their most recent attacks on Iran. It's been viewed more than two million times. But it wasn't made by an anti-Trump activist or critic of the president.

The monologue came from one of the most influential voices on the right of American politics: former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

"Countries become less free during war, a spirit of violence descends and people change fast," said Carlson, a long-time supporter of Donald Trump, who reportedly met the US president several times last month in an attempt to dissuade him from ordering military action. "You can feel on people the bloodlust, the hate, and it accelerates."

Carlson's advice was clear: "Get out right away. It's just that simple. Of course, it's also incredibly complicated, but the first step is deciding that we're leaving."

While many of Trump's most fervent supporters back the current military action, polls indicate that one in four Republicans take the opposite view.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev7wn213rvo?ysclid=mti7iejm22426879428

 How many wars has President Trump really ended?15 October 2025

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