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US President Donald Trump. (Scott Olson/GettyImages) (Representative Image)
US President Donald Trump walked into the United Nations General Assembly, apparently not to lead but to perform for his MAGA base, denouncing the UN as “dead weight” and sneering at its “empty words” while using the podium to aggrandise himself rather than advance solutions.
His hour-long address recycled grievances and boasted a carnival act dressed up as statesmanship.
He claimed, that “in a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” a self-congratulatory boast that lacked evidence.
Trump also turned his ire outward, accusing China and India of enabling conflict by buying Russian energy: “China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war,” he said, shifting blame while failing to offer credible policy alternatives.
Despite the theatrics, complaints about “strongly worded letters,” and insistence that America is in a “golden age,” Trump offered little in the way of a concrete multilateral strategy.