Trump's Amped Up Second Term on Full Display in Fiery UN Speech
"President Donald Trump had barely arrived at the United Nations Tuesday when the mishaps began. First an escalator ground to a halt right as First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it. Then, as the president took the stage to address delegates at the UN headquarters, he complained his teleprompter broke.
Trump seized on the two incidents to argue how poorly he’d been treated by the world body, complaining its leaders hadn’t helped him end the seven wars he’s repeatedly boasted about bringing to a close. It set the tone for an hour-long speech in which the president excoriated the entire institution, right down to the headquarters he’d sought to renovate decades ago.
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The speech was emblematic of a president whose second-term policies and pronouncements have been bigger and more aggressive — and far more disruptive to the global economic order — than those he advanced his first four years in the White House.
Yet world leaders, deploying what’s become a template strategy for managing the emboldened American president, largely ignored most of his speech and stuck to their agendas on climate and trade. A rapid—fire series of meetings with world leaders through the day culminated in a widely-attended reception Tuesday night where Trump was set to hold court.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-24/trump-s-amped-up-second-term-on-full-display-in-fiery-un-speech?srnd=homepage-americas
The key point was that world leaders "largely ignored most of his speech and stuck to their agendas on climate and trade>"
Obviously they are a hell of a lot smarter than far too many Americans here.
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