Trump Typhoon Hits The U.N.

America’s most consequential president delivered a defining address at the United Nations yesterday. There was near chaos before he took the podium. The escalator stalled as the First Lady stepped on. The teleprompter flickered as the president began to speak. The Sunday Times of London reported that U.N. staff had joked beforehand about stunts, raising whispers of deliberate sabotage. U.N. officials insisted they were accidents. A safety switch was triggered. A wrong button was pressed. Yet the true message swept the chamber like a typhoon. Six years ago, Trump’s audience at the U.N. laughed. This year, as the BBC noted, they sat in silence.

That silence set the stage for Trump’s unvarnished truth at the U.N.: blunt words on migration, climate policy, and the institution itself. He told the assembly that unchecked immigration and costly “green energy extremism” are destroying the West, and he mocked the organization for delivering little more than empty words. On a forum built for multilateralism, it was a reminder that America First drives U.S. policy.

President Trump is widely seen at home as having restored order at the southern border after years of chaos under President Biden. Drawing on his domestic success, Trump told Europe its “open borders experiment” was failing and eroding prosperity. “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders,” he said. “Immigration and the high cost of so-called green renewable energy are destroying a large part of the free world.” Open borders are not just a European crisis. They are a test of whether the West still believes in sovereignty and the rule of law. Then he drove the point harder:

Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before. Both the immigration and suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe.

In his trademark style, Trump turned his fire on green energy extremism. He did not mince words, calling it “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” He warned that climate policies were crippling economies and sapping prosperity, a burden he said the West could ill afford. The real question is not whether the planet is warming. The question is whether the policies can fix it. And whether countries can survive if they bankrupt the societies that must pay for them.

He urged the world to protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today. “It’s called Christianity.”

On Russia’s war in Ukraine, Trump struck a tougher note than many expected. He dismissed Moscow as a “paper tiger” and said that with sufficient backing, Ukraine could win back all the territory it has lost, including Crimea. He urged NATO allies to stand firm, even suggesting they should shoot down Russian aircraft violating their airspace. The message was clear. Weakness invites aggression. Resolve can tip the balance of war. Dubbing Russia a “paper tiger” may be bravado, but it also reminds Europe that deterrence works only when it is believed.

He threatened “a very strong round of powerful tariffs” to force Moscow to end the war and pressed Europe to stop buying Russian energy. He named Hungary and Slovakia as holdouts, while skirting any mention of secondary sanctions on India or China.

Regarding the Middle East, Trump reserved some of his sharpest words for those in the U.N. seeking to recognize a Palestinian state in the aftermath of October 7. Such moves, he argued, would hand Hamas a reward for its atrocities. “As if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state,” he warned. Instead, he called for unity around a single message: “Release the hostages now.” Trump added that he was “deeply engaged” in efforts to secure a cease-fire, insisting, “We have to get it done.” The U.N. must decide whether it is serious about peace or content to reward terror with premature recognition.

Trump then turned his fire on the institution itself. The United Nations, he said, was long on speeches and short on results, a hall of empty words rather than decisive action. He mocked its inability to help in peacemaking, claiming all he had received from the body was “a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.” Yet even amid the scorn, he left a sliver of endorsement: “I may disagree with it sometimes, but I am so behind it because I think the potential for peace for this institution is so great.” For all its pomp, the General Assembly has become a theater of platitudes. Trump’s fury exposed what others whisper. Without reform, the institution risks irrelevance.

The U.N. may bristle at his words, but Trump’s challenge will echo after the microphones are switched off. Supporters called it Trumpism unplugged. Critics called it unhinged. Either way, the silence in the chamber told its own story. The laughter of yesterday has been replaced by the storm of today. The chamber is still reeling from its force.

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