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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(130,393 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 04:48 PM Sep 23

Trump throws tantrum. Tells UN in speech that it is 'not even coming close to living up' to its potential

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump castigated the United Nations as a feckless institution in a speech to the world body on Tuesday, praising the turn America has taken under his leadership while warning Europe will be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a “double-tailed monster” of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies.

His roughly hourlong speech before the U.N. General Assembly was both grievance-filled and self-congratulatory as he used the platform to applaud his second-term achievements and lament that some of his fellow world leaders’ countries were “going to hell.”

The address was the latest reminder for U.S. allies and foes that the United States — after a four-year interim under the more internationalist President Joe Biden — has returned to an unapologetically “America First” posture with an antagonistic view toward the United Nations. Trump also sharply criticized the global body for inaction, saying it was filled with “empty words” that “don’t solve wars.”

“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” Trump said. “The U.N. has such tremendous potential. I’ve always said it. It has such tremendous, tremendous potential. But it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential.”

https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-unga-trump-global-feb243ecb979d53317dfb1cad9968038

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Trump throws tantrum. Tells UN in speech that it is 'not even coming close to living up' to its potential (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 23 OP
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Deadbeat is way behind paying the dues. Klarkashton Sep 23 #2
"Such tremendous potential. You should all be members of one of my clubs tanyev Sep 23 #3
Well duh! They aren't doing things as the new God Emperor Yam Titz I would so.... Thomas Hurt Sep 23 #4

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Klarkashton

(4,512 posts)
2. Deadbeat is way behind paying the dues.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 04:52 PM
Sep 23

The US is the main roadblock to getting anything done in the UN.

tanyev

(48,194 posts)
3. "Such tremendous potential. You should all be members of one of my clubs
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 05:39 PM
Sep 23

and bring me gold gifts like Tim Apple. But it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential.”

Fixed.

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