{"id":446828,"date":"2025-09-23T21:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/446828\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:47:31","slug":"trump-admonishes-europe-questions-uns-purpose-in-speech-to-world-body-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/446828\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admonishes Europe, questions UN\u2019s \u2018purpose\u2019 in speech to world body – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> returned to the United Nations<\/a> on Tuesday to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution, while warning Europe it would be ruined if it doesn\u2019t turn away from a \u201cdouble-tailed monster\u201d of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies.<\/p>\n

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World leaders listened closely to his remarks at the U.N. General Assembly as Trump has already moved quickly to diminish U.S. support for the world body in his first eight months in office. Even in his first term, he was no fan of the flavor of multilateralism that the United Nations espouses.<\/p>\n

After his latest inauguration, he issued a first-day executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. That was followed by his move to end U.S. participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council, and ordering up a review of U.S. membership in hundreds of intergovernmental organizations aimed at determining whether they align with the priorities of his \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n

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Trump escalated that criticism on Tuesday, saying it\u2019s \u201cempty words don\u2019t solve wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the purpose of the United Nations?\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe U.N. has such tremendous potential. I\u2019ve always said it. It has such tremendous, tremendous potential. But it\u2019s not even coming close to living up to that potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump offered a weave of jarring juxtapositions in his address to the assembly.<\/p>\n

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He trumpeted himself as a peacemaker and enumerated successes of his administration\u2019s efforts in several hotspots around the globe. At the same, Trump heralded his decisions to order the U.S. military to carry out strikes on Iran and more recently against alleged drug smugglers from Venezuela and argued that globalists are on the verge of destroying successful nations.<\/p>\n

The U.S. president\u2019s speech is typically among the most anticipated moments of the annual assembly. This one comes at one of the most volatile moments in the world body\u2019s 80-year-old history.<\/p>\n

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Global leaders are being tested by intractable wars in Gaza,Ukraine and Sudan, uncertainty about the economic and social impact of emerging artificial intelligence technology, and anxiety about Trump\u2019s antipathy for the global body.<\/p>\n

Trump has also raised new questions about the American use of military force in his return to the White House, after ordering U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June and a trio of strikes this month on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea.<\/p>\n

The latter strikes, including at least two fatal attacks on boats that originated from Venezuela, has raised speculation in Caracas that Trump is looking to set the stage for the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n

Some U.S. lawmakers and human rights advocates say that Trump is effectively carrying out extrajudicial killings by using U.S. forces to lethally target alleged drug smugglers instead of interdicting the suspected vessels, seizing any drugs and prosecuting the suspects in U.S. courts.<\/p>\n

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Trump touted his administration\u2019s policies allowing for expanded drilling for oil and natural gas in the United States, and aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration, implicitly suggesting more countries should follow suit.<\/p>\n

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He sharply warned that European nations that have more welcoming migration policies and commit to expensive energy projects aimed at reducing their carbon footprint were causing irreparable harm to their economies and cultures.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m telling you that if you don\u2019t get away from the \u2018green energy\u2019 scam, your country is going to fail,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t stop people that you\u2019ve never seen before that you have nothing in common with your country is going to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump added, \u201cI love the people of Europe, and I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake, and they cannot let that happen any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The passage of the wide-ranging address elicited some groans and uncomfortable laughter from delegates.<\/p>\n

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Trump touted \u201cthe renewal of American strength around the world\u201d and his efforts to help end several wars. He peppered his speech with criticism of global institutions doing too little to end war and solve the world\u2019s biggest problems.<\/p>\n

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General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday said that despite all the internal and external challenges facing the organization, it is not the time to walk away.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes we could\u2019ve done more, but we cannot let this dishearten us. If we stop doing the right things, evil will prevail,\u201d Baerbock said in her opening remarks.<\/p>\n

Following his speech, Trump is scheduled to hold one-on-one meetings with U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and the leaders of Ukraine, Argentina and the European Union. He will also hold a group meeting with officials from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll return to Washington after hosting a reception Tuesday night with more than 100 invited world leaders.<\/p>\n

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