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Trump’s Reckoning With the United Nations

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For the first time in his second term, President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City with a clear message about exactly what the failed global body represents. 

“Your countries are going to hell,” Trump said. "Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, they're often times creating them...The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them."

"You're destroying your heritage," Trump added, noting the UN is behind millions of fake asylum claims made by third-world, military-aged men flooding into Europe and previously, the U.S. under Joe Biden. "In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime, and deplete our social safety net."

His remarks made clear Trump isn’t interested in coddling terrorists or treating them as legitimate partners. He wants to end wars, not start them, and protect the U.S. from the rampant corruption dragging down economies around the world. And while Europeans demanded for years the American taxpayer foot the bill for Ukraine’s defense against Russia, NATO countries were and still are fueling Putin’s efforts.

“Inexcusably, even NATO countries haven't cut off much Russian oil & energy products,” Trump said, calling out feckless European leaders. “They’re funding a war against themselves. Who the hell’s ever heard of that one?”

“It’s embarrassing,” he continued, hammering home the point. 

Perhaps most shockingly to the globalists in the room, Trump ended the U.S. coddling of “climate change” communism and trillions of dollars in leftist “green” grift by calling the concept out for what it has always been: a hoax. 

"Climate change? The greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. The scientific consensus was created by stupid people. If you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail. Renewables don't work—they're unreliable, expensive, and a joke. China now produces more CO2 than all the other developed nations in the world combined, while lecturing us on the environment,” Trump said without flinching. “Hypocrisy! The entire globalist concept of asking successful, industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally—and it must be immediate. Use traditional energy—oil, gas, coal—drill, baby, drill. That's how you power prosperity. America is energy independent again, exporting to the world, and our economy is booming because of it.”

Trump is optimistic that the UN has potential for good. His demands for accountability and nations to take responsibility for their own borders may get them there. 

"The UN has such tremendous potential...for the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a strongly worded letter, and then never follow that letter up. It's empty words—and empty words do not solve war. The only thing that solves war is action," Trump said.

On the other hand, it is legitimate to argue that the UN is so saturated with corruption and evil "leaders" that it should be abolished completely. The UN is an anti-American, anti-West, Jew and Christian-hating cesspool deeply embroiled in corruption, sexual abuse, and conducting Islamic terrorist attacks. 

The U.S. provides the most funding to the UN of any country, and yet, it thanks hardworking Americans by undermining the sovereignty of functioning countries and is constantly embroiled in scandal. It’s long past time for this to change. With Trump back in charge, it just might.