Trump plans to address United Nations General Assembly in person

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump is likely to be the only world leader speaking live from New York at this year’s United Nations General Assembly debate, scheduled to take place Sept. 22 to 25.

Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., told a virtual event Thursday morning that Trump would be “the only world leader to be speaking in person,” noting that “this is the 75th anniversary (of the U.N.), so it makes it even more special.”

The U.N. will be holding its biggest annual event virtually this year, with up to 190 world leaders delivering speeches via pre-recorded video message, instead of descending on New York City with their entourages.

As host country of the U.N. headquarters during the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has a unique opportunity to hold center-stage at an organization Trump has consistently derided, and which at times has returned the favor.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/trump-un-general-assemply-address-388292

[pfitz59]

1. I'm sure no one at the UN

wants to hear his wheezy drivel

[turbinetree]

5. I know this is a old video but maybe its time to bring it back..............

[niyad]

19. Apparently nobody will be there.

[wryter2000]

2. Does the UN have any say in this?

Trump is really grasping at straws today.

[marybourg]

3. That'll work. Everybody will have an

off button.

[magicarpet]

4. Will the United Nations auditorium be using a laugh track,....

.... so world leaders don't run the risk of peeing themselves from laughing ?

What an,
Embarrassment,
Humiliation,

trDumpie,
Stay,
Home !

[Jirel]

6. Can't wait for the optics on this one.

The bloviator standing in an empty room at the UN. All the delegates will be at their desks with video off or projecting a static photo, while playing cribbage with their aides.

[Grokenstein]

20. He thinks it'll be a captive audience for one of his autofellatio rallies.

That'll happen when everything you know about the UN is based on movies.

I hope every delegate shows up, waits until he staggers/is wheeled up to the podium and farts out his first word, then gets up and leaves.

[machoneman]

42. Yes! Most will simply turn off the Bloviator-in-Chief! Only dictators and authoritarians, in the....

U.N. minority btw, will watch him belch out lie after lie.

[ancianita]

7. The international pariah takes his shitshow to the world stage again.

[niyad]

24. An empty one, thank goodness.

[ancianita]

26. And unfortunately the one where he won't hear them laugh at him again.

[Greywing]

8. I hope all delegates leave the room the minute he walks to the podium

[niyad]

17. None of them will be there. Please read the OP.

[Grokenstein]

21. My hope: They all show up--just to leave when he starts.

[niyad]

23. I unlike the orange traitor, the rest of the world's leaders take the pandemic seriously, and are

acting accordingly. As the O p stated, this General Assembly will be virtual.

[George II]

9. How can he speak to them "in person" when they're not going to "meet" at the UN in NYC?

He's insane.

[djacq]

10. We've seen this movie before;

[niyad]

22. I keep seeing that scene in my head.

[Sneederbunk]

11. I believe he remains the only US president the GA laughed at.

[oldsoftie]

12. I first read that as "in prison". nt

[yaesu]

13. The smell of sulfur will follow him. nt

[louis-t]

15. Sulfur and dirty diapers.

[onetexan]

14. i hope the entire assembly gets up & walks out

[niyad]

18. They won't be there.

[pwb]

16. He needs to praise Putin in public.

Like a nice Putin doggy.

[Totally Tunsie]

25. Oh goodie...another chance for him to embarrass himself

and us on the world stage once again. He never misses an opportunity to do so.

[forgotmylogin]

33. My exact thought seeing the headline was "Oh fuck."

[Totally Tunsie]

36. That works, too!

[SunSeeker]

27. They'll probably laugh at him again. nt

[NNadir]

28. A drooling idiot, embarrassing our country on the world stage. More bullshit. n/t.

[not_the_one]

29. Grasping at headlines

ANYTHING to get a mention in the news. Push John Lewis, Obama, Clinton, W off the front page.

He wasn't even a D grade actor in a BAD reality show (kudos to Kathy Griffin), but he HAS TO HAVE his stage.

We must laugh at him, humiliate him, ridicule him, roast him in the worst possible way. Reject him with such intensity that he strokes out and has a major meltdown on live teevee.

One can only hope...

[Botany]

30. Trump's address

[Luciferous]

31. Well I'm sure that will go well 🙄

[EarthFirst]

32. He'll cancel after someone explains the optics to him...

He couldn’t handle the fallout from the Tulsa event; he’ll have a grand excuse why he canceled; perhaps even a “security risk” to which he can attempt to justify a deployment of his federal agents providing credence to his other authoritarian daydreams.

[BlueIdaho]

34. So he will be there alone?

Fucking hysterical that...

[zentrum]

35. In other words, Trump plans to

….embarrass himself and the United States at the United Nations.

[generalbetrayus]

37. No need for the non-English speaking delegates to hit the translate button.

Nothing worth hearing.

[Talitha]

38. Isn't that orange hemorrhoid dead yet?

[riversedge]

39. If Trump reads his speach like he read his press conf yesterday, the world will laugh AGAIN

[Kaiserguy]

40. All over the world

people will be saying. What in the name of Hell was he trying to say. Trump and his abominable word salad from Hell will be the talk of the world.

[zanana1]

41. Oh crap.

[nykym]

43. Since the event is in NY

wouldn't he be required to self isolate for 14 days since he is coming from DC?