Trump greeted with laughter while touting his administration's accomplishments at UN
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"In less than two years, my administration has accomplished almost more than any other administration in the history of our country," Trump said which prompted audible laughter in the hall.
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Orange POS conman traitor in chief has the whole world laughing at the United States.
Another nugget was: We will only give foreign aid to "those who respect us and frankly our friends
He is a grade A disgraceful POS scumbag
Yes with this debt and runaway spending all foreign aid should be discontinued.
Totally agree. Let's start with Israel
And the recent tax cuts.
Except he didn't mean, "Respect US." He meant, 'respect him.'
Whatever, Trump.
Ever since you rode down that escalator you have made yourself the 'only conversation' taking place.
Noticed Melania was with you on this excursion. Why? And why didn't Melania wear 'that jacket?"
Hire a clown, get a circus.
POTUS chastises OPEC as "ripping us all off".
Stock market wobbles, oil prices increase past $82 per barrel, other UN members laugh.
Trump "orders" OPEC to lower oil prices while the impending US sanctions against Iran are driving oil prices higher with the threat of losing production of Iran's 1 million barrels a day.
What wobble the Dow is only down .13% from what it opened at? It looks to me to be a fairly flat day of trading with normal fluctuation.
Gas prices are still rising.....
Yes Dean, I know, it wavered, quivered, vacillated and trembled.
In other words a wobble.
2 indexes down, one up. Not much going on. Lot's of marginal losses, very few gains.
Glad we agree.
Trump = comic relief for the world, with America being the butt of his joke.
What Trump is mainly accomplishing is creating a mess that the next president will have to clean up. One way or the other, our idiot in chief will not be in charge much longer, out by 2021 at the latest. Yet he feels emboldened to make sweeping declarations about what America's foreign policy will be into the foreseeable future. He should save his breath.
When you see Trump make such a pathetically ill-delivered speech (he sounded drugged, that's how horrible and sleepy his delivery was) it begs the question - what is really behind this? Actually , it's not that difficult to understand what is driving this hyper appeal to nationalism. International white racism. Trump's whisperers on this topic (nationalism) are Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who want to turn back the clock to 1800's, before non whites (other than slaves) were allowed to emigrate to the United States. Trump's "foreign policy" is a last ditch effort by America's white racists and nationalists to get rid of non whites or at least prevent any more from coming here. Coating this policy with the appeal of "America First" makes the xenophobia slightly more palatable to those Americans who want to maintain a racial status quo (whites on top) without seeming like racial bigots.
Unfortunately for trump and his handlers on this issue, the world does not go backwards in time, it goes forward.
Diplomats and heads of state from all over the world laughed at President Donald Trump’s boast that he has “accomplished more than any administration in the history of our country.”
At the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Trump took it on the nose – “Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK” – and then sleepily delivered a bellicose, 35-minute presentation of international cooperation as a threat to America.
Last year, Trump gave a #MAGA-rally-caliber speech defending “sovereignty” that echoed one of Vladimir Putin’s General Assembly addresses . Trump escalated the theme on Tuesday morning, as promised by his senior officials , contrasting “independence” with “global governance, control and domination.” Much as Trump has equated immigration with an invasion , now multilateral institutions are coming for the sovereignty that Trump portrayed as the wellspring of human achievement.
At the heart of Trump’s speech, and his vision of global affairs more broadly, was a politics of dominance, one that expresses its agenda by locating it in its enemies. Don’t tell America what to do, Trump said, because every nation has a “right to pursue its own customs, beliefs and traditions. The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship.”
That comes as news to the vast majority of the world over the past century, which has grown accustomed – though not acquiescent – to the U.S. throwing its massive power and influence around, often violently . That’s particularly true in what Trump has referred to as “shithole” countries. At one point, when Trump attacked socialism’s “oppression,” the United Nations’ webfeed camera showed two Swedish diplomats cocking their heads in amused bewilderment.
Trump’s message was hardly one of leaving the world to its own peaceful devices. It was one where Trump sets the conditions for the world to follow, cloaked in revisionist history. Global free trade, for decades pushed on developing economies by the U.S. and yielding substantial wealth transfer upwards , was portrayed a mechanism for other countries to “rig the system in their favor.” In between praising the Trump-coaxing regime of Saudi Arabia, Trump attacked OPEC as “ripping off the rest of the world” before demanding protection money: “We want them to start lowering [oil] prices, and they must contribute substantially to military protection from now on.” U.S. refusal to participate in the 2016 Global Compact on Migration, an entirely voluntary framework , was premised on preventing an “international body unaccountable to our own citizens.”
Everywhere Trump looked, he saw global avarice encircling to choke the life out of America – an America he defined in the blood-and-soil terms of “a culture built on strong families, deep faith and strong independence,” rather than the mixture of cultures that form the United States.
Financial and military aid, from now on, will receive a “hard look” and go to “to those who respect us and our friends,” suggesting that vocal support for Trump himself will become a factor in honoring historic American commitments to the world.
In Trump’s portrayal, migrants and refugees ought to be resettled “close to home,” as unchecked immigration contributes to a “vicious cycle of crime, violence and poverty,” a stance enforced as a matter of policy that absolves the U.S., the world’s richest nation, from responsibility as a migration crisis accelerates.
As long previewed by Trump aides, the president delivered another hostile address to the “corrupt dictatorship in Iran,” which Trump’s attorney winks at overthrowing despite official denials . Trump didn’t make demands of Iran, instead rattling off Iranian bellicosity and urging a world Trump spent the rest of the speech denigrating to join in the U.S. “campaign of economic pressure” and isolation.
Meanwhile, the European Union is taking deliberate steps to undermine that campaign in order to keep Iran compliant with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal that Trump’s sanctions violate.
It amounted to a declaration of white innocence on a global scale: an America victimized by a world it funds and protects but from which it receives no love or gratitude.
In Trump’s telling, all America wants from the world is to live and let live – but without consideration of the fundamental power imbalances favoring America that Trump seeks to entrench. Challenges to this arrangement come merely from “experts who [have been] proven wrong time and time again,” he asserted in a line aimed at critics of his widely condemned decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, another sign that Palestinians will not enjoy the sovereignty Trump considers so vital.
Trump’s bet at the United Nations is that he rides a tide of nationalisms in the world’s developed countries strong enough to withstand the moderating forces posed by international institutions. “Sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle where freedom has ever survived, democracy has ever endured and peace has ever prospered,” Trump lectured, neglecting the mass injustice that nations often choose to call “peace.” Thus far, Trump has seen electoral evidence, from Brexit to Poland to Hungary, of nationalism’s new appeal – even as the “hopeful futures” Trump sees in nationalist countries victimize the weakest within them. No one in the General Assembly laughed at that.
Trump shouldn't have been surprised that the rest of the world laughs at him and find his lies to be ridiculously absurd. The only people who actually respect him are his shrinking base.
Didn't more than one delegate walk out as Trump was speaking?
At least two did but I don't remember who they were.
It's not surprising that Trump has made the US the laughingstock of the world.
If he finds out who they are, watch him blow up Twitter.
Trump really is a terrible public speaker.
Not that I care what he says.
And the damn gop had the nerve to ridicule Obama for his deft use of a teleprompter? Really?
I've seen better public speaking done by fourth graders at 4-H public speaking competitions...
I haven't seen that personally....but I'm certainly willing to take your word on it.
Good grief he's terrible.
One small irony of many from Trump's UN speech, particularly given that Trump specifically asked for Russia to interfere in our society and help him win the election by hacking our democracy: