He stated, clearly, his administration's view of the world:
"America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control and domination."
The longer he spoke, the more portentous it became:
"We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy. America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism. And we embrace the doctrine of patriotism."
And Trump made it clear he is happy to divide the world into nations he sees as his friends and those he sees as undeserving enemies:
"We are taking a hard look at US foreign assistance ... whether the countries who receive our dollars and protection also have our interests at heart. Moving forward, we are only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us and, frankly, are our friends."
And when he gave a shout out to some of those friends, he gave yet more insight into the sort of nations he considers allies.
Many former friends were missing -- indeed, erstwhile ally Germany even came in for criticism.
Somewhere near the top of the friends list this year -- an astonishing turnaround from being the leader Trump criticized so readily from this very platform last year -- was North Korea.
"I traveled to Singapore to meet face-to-face with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un. Since that meeting, we have already seen a number of encouraging measures that few could have imagined."
South Korea and Japan both got a shout out, too.
He singled out Saudi Arabia as a key ally, specifically piling praise on its autocratic rulers, King Salman and his son Mohammed Bin Salman.
Other autocratic Gulf states got praise, too: "The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have pledged billions of dollars to aid the people of Syria and Yemen."
. . . .
He praised Poland, whose right-wing President Andzrej Duda met with Trump a few days ago, offering to help build a new US military base that he would call "Fort Trump."
The Polish leader, who faces possible sanctions from EU leaders for firing judges as part of sweeping political meddling in the country's judiciary, got a double helping of praise.
Trump explained that Poland found favor with him for the way in which it is standing up to Russia:
"We congratulate the European states such as Poland for leading the construction of a Baltic pipeline so that nations are not dependent on Russia ... Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course."
They literally laughed at his utter bullshit.
Need I mention again that his imposition of tariffs is illegal and unconstitutional?
No big deal for the Republicans who control the Congress, of course.
Just another small chunk of turd in the Trump shitstorm.
En vantant son bilan, Donald Trump devient la risée de l'ONU
Le président qui déplorait que le monde se moque de l’Amérique a lui-même suscité les rires de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies.
Une ironie abondamment soulignée dans la presse américaine.
“Tout le monde a son cauchemar récurrent (…). Pour Donald Trump, écrit The Atlantic, ce cauchemar est que le monde rie aux dépens des États-Unis – et mardi, à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, ce cauchemar est devenu réalité.”
En effet, lorsque le président américain a assuré à la tribune de l’Assemblée générale qu’“en moins de deux ans, [s]on gouvernement a accompli davantage que presque tout autre gouvernement dans l’histoire du pays”, des rires se sont fait entendre.
Et ils ont redoublé quand Trump, pris de court, a réagi “tel un comique devant une audience turbulente” (comme l’écrit The New York Times) : “Je ne m’attendais pas à cette réaction, mais ce n’est pas grave.”
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