Trump Is Putting On A Show At The UN Today With Longest Ever Speech By A US President

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14:37 GMT Trump has started his speech by making remarks about a teleprompter that wasn't working. “I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,” he said.

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14:59 GMT The US president has credited himself with making NATO “stronger than ever before” by making its members increase the defense spending threshold from 2% to 5% of their GDP. He added that he had strengthened ties with the Middle East and struck a series of “historic trade deals,” including with the UK, the EU, Japan, and South Korea.

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15:05 GMT “In a period of seven months I’ve ended seven unendable wars,” Trump has claimed, referring to a border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, a conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a brief military escalation between India and Pakistan, as well as the war between Israel and Iran, among others.

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15:07 GMT Trump has questioned the UN role in resolving the recent conflicts by saying that it had done virtually nothing to particularly aid him in his peace efforts. “It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them. And, sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any of them,” he stated.

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15:14 GMT “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle... and then a teleprompter that didn’t work,” the US president said.

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15:28 GMT “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” Trump asked, arguing that while the organization has “tremendous potential,” it is “not even coming close to living up” to this, as it is all words and no action.

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15:39 GMT Trump has accused Hamas of rejecting “reasonable offers to make peace,” without mentioning Israel’s military action in Gaza. He also criticized the nations seeking to “unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state,” saying they are doing this “as if to encourage continued conflict.”

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15:43 GMT Trump has criticized Kiev’s European backers, claiming they are “funding the war against themselves” by purchasing oil from Russia “while fighting Russia.” He added that the US is ready to impose a “very strong round of powerful tariffs” against Russia if it is not “ready to make a deal” to end the Ukraine conflict – but will only do so if the EU is ready to follow suit.

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16:04 GMT Trump has called uncontrolled migration the “number one political issue of our time,” adding that the UN had not just failed to help tackle the issue but was instrumental in creating it. “The UN is funding an assault on the Western countries,” the president claimed, adding that those countries “are being ruined.”

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16:10 GMT Western governments are “destroying [their] countries” with mass migration, the US president has claimed. “Europe is in serious trouble,” he said, adding that such policies are unsustainable. “Immigration … and suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe.”

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16:12 GMT The US will lead an international effort to enforce the 1975 Biological Weapons Convention, Trump announced, adding that it will involve “pioneering an AI verification system that everyone can trust.”

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16:46 GMT Renewable energy is “a joke” and is too expensive and insufficient to power an industrial economy, Trump claimed. According to the president, the “green energy agenda” has brought many nations in Europe to “the brink of destruction,” adding: “All green is all bankrupt.” The US president called global warming and the idea of the carbon footprint a “hoax” and a “scam,” claiming that the green agenda was aimed at moving manufacturing and industrial activity away from developed nations.

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16:47 GMT Trump spoke for almost an hour at the UN General Assembly, even though each speaker is usually given around 15 minutes. At 56 minutes, it was the longest speech at the UN among US presidents.

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17:28 GMT Zelensky is heading to his sit-down with Trump.

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