Cross the street to avoid the crazies
There's a reason people cross the street to avoid the crazies. And today Trump was that crazy man. Trump got on the world stage at the UN today and showed how rude, racist, contemptuous, and crazy he is. Not only that, his superior holier-than-thou nonsense completely undermined any credibility he has. Wait, was there any left? He is the crazy uncle at the Thanksgiving table that keeps you away each holiday. He is the madman pacing the sidewalk with a sandwich board scribbled with rants and rambles. His bullshit is why you don't speak to members of your own family. His lunacy is one step away from howling at the moon. I wish he were held accountable under the 25th Amendment. But then the "competent" evil Project 2025 MFs would step in and smooth talk their policies through even more effectively than Trump has.
Donald Trump took the stage at the United Nations general assembly hall for the first time in six years to launch a full-on assault on the world body, which he described as a feckless, corrupt and pernicious global force that should follow the example of his own leadership.
In an inflammatory speech on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Trump called for countries to close their borders and expel foreigners, accused the UN of leading a “globalist migration agenda”, and told national leaders that the world body was “funding an assault on your countries”.
Other highlights included:
Trump called climate change a “con job”.
He ridiculed renewable energy sources like wind farms as a product of a “green energy agenda” that has brought countries to the “brink of destruction”
Repeated a dubious claim that he had ended seven wars during his eight-month administration.
“It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders,” he said in a headline speech to world leaders and visiting delegations in the grand general assembly hall in midtown Manhattan. “You have to end it now … Your countries are going to hell.”
Directly addressing European leaders in contentious terms, he accused them of “destroying your heritage” and of allowing international migration because of misplaced “political correctness”.
He accused environmentalists of wanting to “kill all the cows.”
Mr. Trump also issued a new warning: that the U.S. military would continue to play the role of judge, jury and executioner in killing suspected drug smugglers operating in international waters. “We will blow you out of existence,” he warned anyone moving drugs out of Venezuela.
Mr. Trump undermined the scientific consensus on climate change, saying it was “made by stupid people.” He celebrated the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and “clean, beautiful coal.” He talked about American energy exports and added that “the United States has been taken advantage by much of the world, but not anymore.”
“I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
Trump reaffirmed his decision to raise tariffs on countries around the world, targeting China and other nations that he claimed had broken international trade rules.
"Let us protect religious liberty," he told the UN, "including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today – it's called Christianity."
So this was undiluted Trump; a defense 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 untrue assertions; this year they listened largely in silence.
"I am really good at this stuff," he told world leaders. "Your countries are going to hell."
And he has told strongmen leaders of other countries that the United States would no longer sit in judgment of them.
The diplomats should have walked out on his speech. Anyone scheduled to meet the asshole should cancel. Everyone of them should send a letter to Trump, and publish it publicly, saying that he is wrong, rude, and and an unreliable person, unfit to negotiate on behalf of the US.
