The US Assault on the UN Rests on a Tragic Misunderstanding
The Trump administration views the United Nations as a useless, woke cesspool. Instead, the UN reflects the world as it is, assembled to “save humanity from hell.”
No escalator, no teleprompter, no-good UN.
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“Better together.” That’s the optimistic theme that Annalena Baerbock, the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, chose for this year’s global gathering, the 80th. US President Donald Trump instead confirmed in his speech what I keep hearing from the cognoscenti here at UNGA: The likelier trajectory points toward “worse apart.”
As is his wont, Trump heaped contempt on the UN as on other countries and people he disdains. “The two things I got from the United Nations,” he sneered, are “a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.” (Apparently, neither device worked to his satisfaction.) And while he, the peacemaker-in-chief, was allegedly out ending seven wars, “sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help.”