Trump Faces Laughter at UN, Then Unleashes Global Grievance List
- President rejects multilateralism in speech to UN in New York
- Trump undertaking uphill effort to rally allies against Iran
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President Donald Trump reasserted his “America First” perspective in his address to the United Nations on Tuesday, chastising regimes in Iran and Venezuela and offering a blunt rejection of the multilateral underpinnings of the very body he addressed.
But the world, in turn, showed a glimpse of what it thinks of the U.S. president. Trump began his speech as if he were at a campaign rally in rural America, ticking off a list of his administration’s domestic accomplishments and statistics about the U.S. economy.