Trumps große UN -Rede, die mit unangenehmem Lachen in peinlichen Hintergängen empfangen wurde
Trump’s big UN speech received with awkward laughter in embarrassing backfire
Trumps große UN -Rede, die mit unangenehmem Lachen in peinlichen Hintergängen empfangen wurde
Trump’s big UN speech received with awkward laughter in embarrassing backfire
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As [Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?ico=in-line_link) hailed “the golden age of America” at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, tensions between the US and United Nations were palpable.
[The President](https://inews.co.uk/news/science/what-science-says-autism-why-trump-wrong-3932354?ico=in-line_link) highlighted “historic trade deals” with the UK and others, and claimed the US was respected “like it has never been respected before” – but the response was embarrassing.
There was [scattered awkward laughter in the room](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-politics-latest-updates-live-5-3930091?ico=in-line_link) as he jokingly complained about a broken escalator and teleprompter at the UN – and a lack of marble floors. UN officials and experts have warned that Trump’s combative approach to the organisation could lead to a waning of US influence.
Since the start of the year, Trump has moved to slash US funding of the UN, withdrawn from many of its agencies, and ordered a review of America’s interactions with the organisation.
His actions have exacerbated the UN’s already significant budget crisis and created space for nations including China to expand their influence.
“US credibility and influence as a reliable partner and as a state broadly committed to human rights and international peace and security is suffering badly,” Phil Lynch, executive director of the non-profit International Service for Human Rights, told *The i Paper*.
“Trump on the international level has an agenda which very much mirrors his agenda at the domestic level, which is one of the suppression of dissent, the erosion of accountability mechanisms and the subversion of the rule of law.
“His agenda at the UN in terms of the withdrawal of funding and denunciation of treaties follows a very similar pattern.”
It was pretty rough, pretty clear the US isn’t fielding its best and brightest on the international stage.
You don’t win medals by losing, donald.
I’m sure the other UN members were wishing for the days of Castro’s multi hour tirades over the incoherent ranting of this senile old coot.
People call Trump a dictator but he doesn’t belong in the same league as Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler. Those were feared leaders that the world never laughed at. Trump is different and it’s embarrassing that when America got a fascist dictator it was this orange buffoon.
He sounded like a dim, opinionated drunk, making up facts and figures through a wash of bluster.
I remember back when GW would speech like a moron and rolling my eyes. Now we have Taco Orange Dictator declaring us the hottest country. Hottest?
Yes laugh at the idiot. More countries need to laugh publicly at the US! Make him the laughing stock of the world. The sooner the world moves on without the US the better.
Honestly never thought I’d live to see the day that America became such an international embarrassment.
World leaders are treating Trump’s words like farts.
They hear the sound, but they pretend not to hear it.
He got laughed at. Know the American press on the right will twist it but you essentially had the world laughing at America.
To the rest of the world, please boycott the Olympics here. It’ll drive him crazy and closer to the coronary explosion we need.
Listening to his speech made me wonder what the question was. Why is he speaking? The hottest country?
The nations need to move on from America. It’s good to see that they’re making some progress toward that end. Even if Democrats regain power someday, this country cannot be trusted as long as Republicans are around and trumpism is their primary objective.
Interestingly, TIME magazine back in the late 20th century forecast that this century would see the end of America’s dominance and predicted that China could well be the new power on the world stage. We may very well be seeing that transition play out.
I watched that god-awful address. It is amazing to me that he got any applause at all and didn’t get booed. He spent most of the time railing against migrants, claiming that global warming and green energy was a hoax, and lying about his so called „accomplishments“ like ending seven wars and improving the economy. The only thing remarkable about his speech was his bright orange face.
Move the UN to Canada. At some point, Trump is going to pull out of some more international organizations. In general MAGA and conservatives hate the UN.
Might have to do some budget reductions.
Trump has gone from National to Worldwide Joke.
I mean, they laughed at him last time, too.
Him talking about how the UN failed its remodel decades ago by not hiring him and using it as a symbolism for the UNs continued failure at everything unless it start doing what he suggests was absolutely cringe!
As an American, I’m sorry world. Trump is an enormous embarrassment and does NOT embody the values and thoughts of the real American people. He should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors against American citizens and other countries across the globe, and put in jail after his impeachment. True republicans woulda be ashamed to call him the head of their party because he does not uphold any of the true conservative beliefs. He’s a liar, racist, rapist, narcissistic authoritarian dictator.
Not a lot of people know this but “Embarrassing Backfire” is also the Secret Service’s codeword when Trump is getting his diaper changed
He is so weird. Thinks it’s all a reality show I’m sure. He has no strength of character. Everything he say just isn’t true. Trying to dictate
Homer Simpson in the house
I said it elsewhere; I remember when the Soviets would get up and rattle off lists of lies, half truths and downright impossibilities. The West, broadly speaking, and the US in particular was respected for speaking truth.
Even when the US said/did things that were demonstrably wrong, part of the shock was that the US simply did not do those sorts of things. It was out of character. When the Soviets, CCP and others did Bad Things it was just another Tuesday.
But this, this is new for the US. As the article points out, two Trump administration suggests a pattern. A pattern that must be addressed.
It is interesting to ponder that the US has generally been a somewhat isolationist power. At least there is a tendency towards it. The WWII and post war eras being notable exceptions during which there were significant isolationist movements. Folks forget that Bush in 2000 was a strong advocate of isolationist policies; 9/11 changed that (there was an interesting article about what role Bush and Cheney and directly led to the interventionist actions that followed, but I digress).
It makes sense, the US has 2.5 giant moats (Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico). To the north is essentially a friendly non entity. To the south is a friendly source of cheap, albeit Catholic and brown, labor which is also largely a non entity when it comes to US goings on.
The problem is that global trade has only intensified since the 19th century. The US is a merchant nation, utterly dependent on sea borne trade. It needs oil (much domestically produced, but much is imported), it needs iron, aluminum, computer chips, rubber, and so on. All comes over the water and all necessitating forces to safeguard the sea lanes of communication. All of this brings the interests of the US into contact with local goings on.
Do they not know that being mean to him is very illegal internationally too? See you at the Hague, the entire UN.
/s obviously
He literally has no idea how stupid he is.
What an embarrassment to all Americans who actually give a shit.
I truly hope we can forge a way forward after this presidency and get some safety rails back on this roller coaster.
I feel very lost, in regards to my country.
He should be laughed at and derided as an idiot. If he took an IQ test, I’m sure it would show that he’s an imbecile. It’s a disgrace that he won the first time, now that he’s in a second time it’s just beyond lunacy.
Trump calling this the “Golden Age of America” is classic strongman spin. It’s not about prosperity, it’s about power. He’s saying this is the peak but only because he’s in charge. Meanwhile, he’s trashing the UN, cutting funding, and walking away from accountability. That’s not a golden age, that’s a red flag. When leaders sell you slogans while gutting institutions and concentrating control, they’re not leading you into greatness, they’re walking you straight into authoritarian rule.
The first time….some countries were willing to give the US a pass for electing this raging moron. But Trump 2.0 just makes all Americans look bad, because you proved it wasn’t a mistake in 2016.
Unlike his cabinet and republicans, the rest of the world isn’t afraid of him and don’t have to suck up to him. They can laugh at him like the blithering idiot he is.
This should’ve been the response from *someone* to the speech.
^(Credit to *Billy Madison*)
>what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Can’t the SOB just drop dead already….