The halls of the United Nations are built for decorum and carefully weighed words. Yesterday, U.S President, Donald Trump brought a blowtorch.
In a blistering address to the United Nations General Assembly that torched decades of diplomatic protocol, Trump unleashed a verbal onslaught that spared almost no one.
He came with a list, and by the time he was done, a significant portion of the global political landscape, allies, adversaries, and long-standing policies alike had “collected” their share of the fire. Here’s who collected, and what they got:
Teleprompter Handler
“I can only say that whoever’s operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.”
The United Nations
“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle… And then a teleprompter that didn’t work. These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much.”
“I didn’t think of it at the time because I was too busy working to save millions of lives, that is the saving and stopping of these wars, but later I realized that the United Nations wasn’t there for us. They weren’t there. I thought of it really after the fact, not during. Not during these negotiations, which were not easy.”
“The UN 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. For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words and empty words don’t solve war.”
“Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, too often, it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve. The best example is the number one political issue of our time, the crisis of uncontrolled migration. It’s uncontrolled. Your countries are being ruined. The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders.”
“The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them.”
“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons were wrong. They were made by stupid people…”
“In 1982, the executive director of the United Nations Environmental Program predicted that by the year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe. He said that it will be irreversible as any nuclear holocaust would be. This is what they said at the United Nations. What happened? Here we are. Another UN official stated in 1989 that within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming. Not happening.”
Climate Change and the Environment
“Climate change [is] the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.”
“That’s why in America, I withdrew from the fake Paris Climate Accord, where, by the way, America was paying so much more than every country. Others weren’t paying. China didn’t have to pay until 2030. Russia was given an old standard that was easy to meet, a 1990 standard. But for the United States, we’re supposed to pay like a trillion dollars. And I said, “This is another scam.”
“No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons were wrong. They were made by stupid people that of course their country’s fortunes and given those same countries, no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”
“[Germany has] said, this is a disaster. What’s happening? They were going all green. All green is all bankrupt. That’s what it represents.
“For all of [the European carbon footprint] sacrifice and much more, it’s been totally wiped out and then some by a global increase of 54%, much of it coming from China and other countries that are thriving around China, which now produces more CO2 than all the other developed nations in the world. So all of these countries are working so hard on the carbon footprint, which is nonsense by the way. It’s nonsense. It’s interesting.”
“The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction.”
China; Asia“The problem is that other countries like China, which has air that’s a little bit rough, it blows. And no matter what you’re doing down here, the air up here tends to get very dirty because it comes in from other countries where their air isn’t so clean and the environmentalists refuse to acknowledge that.”
“Same thing with garbage. In Asia, they dump much of their garbage right into the ocean. And over about a one-week and two-week journey, it flows right past Los Angeles. You’ve seen it, massive amounts of garbage. Almost too much to do anything about, flowing past Los Angeles, past San Francisco, and then somebody would get in trouble because he dropped a cigarette on the beach. The whole thing is crazy.”
NATO; Europe
“China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil. But inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products, which as you know, I found out about two weeks ago and I wasn’t happy. Think of it, they’re funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that one?”
European nations are buying oil and gas from Russia while they’re fighting Russia. It’s embarrassing to them, and it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it. I can tell you that.
“In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of powerful tariffs … European nations … would have to join us … They can’t be doing what they’re doing.”
“European electricity bills are now four to five times more expensive than those in China, and two to three times higher than the United States, and our bills are coming way down.”
“You’re destroying your countries. They’re being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe, and nobody’s doing anything to change it, to get them out. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it.”
“I’m the President of the United States, but I worry about Europe. I love Europe. I love the people of Europe, and I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake, and they cannot let that happen any longer. You’re doing it because you want to be nice, you want to be politically correct and you’re destroying your heritage.”
“Europe … is … on the brink of destruction because of the green energy agenda. And I give a lot of credit to Germany. Germany was being led down a very sick path both on immigration by the way and on energy. They were going green and they were going bankrupt. And the new leadership, new leadership came in and they went back to where they were with fossil fuel and with nuclear, which is good, it’s now safe and you can do it properly.”
“Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately.”
“According to the Council of Europe, in 2024, almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Austria, the number was 53% of the people in prisons were from places that weren’t from where they are now. In Greece, the number was 54%.
“In Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and that’s what they did, they repaid kindness with crime, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. I see it, I can tell you. I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”
Biden“Millions of people came through that southern border. Just a year ago, millions and millions of people were pouring in, 25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration, and now we have it stopped. Totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through.”
“We’re also using tariffs to defend our sovereignty and security throughout the world, including against nations that have taken advantage of former U.S. administrations for decades, including the most corrupt, incompetent administration in history. The sleepy Joe Biden administration.”
“In four years of President Biden, we had less than $1 trillion of new investment into the United States. In just eight months since I took office, we have secured commitments and money already paid for $17 trillion. Think of it, four years, less than a trillion. Eight months, much more than $17 trillion is being invested in the United States, and it’s now pouring in from all parts of the world.”
“If you look back just a year ago, it was millions and millions of people pouring in from all over the world, from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers, all over the world they came, they just poured into our country with the ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration.”
“Joe Biden’s policies empowered murderous gangs, human smugglers, child traffickers, drug cartels, and prisoners. Prisoners from all over the world. The previous administration also lost nearly 300,000 children. Think of that. They lost more than 300,000 children, little children who were trafficked into the United States on the Biden watch, many of whom have been raped, exploited and abused and sold. Sold. Nobody talks about that.”
Obama“I remember hearing about the carbon footprint and then President Obama would get into Air Force One, a massive Boeing 747 and not a new one, an old one with old engines that spew everything into the atmosphere. He talked about the carbon footprint, we must do… Then he’d get in, and he’d fly from Washington to Hawaii to play a round of golf, and then he’d get back onto that big, beautiful plane and he’d fly back, and he’d talk about, again, global warming and the carbon footprint. It’s a con job at extreme cost and expense.”
United Kingdom
“I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles taking away farmland, but we’re not letting this happen in America.”
“Oh, the North Sea. I know it so well. Aberdeen was the oil capital of Europe and this tremendous oil that hasn’t been found in the North Sea. Tremendous oil. And I was with the Prime Minister I respected, like a lot. And I said, ‘You’re sitting with the greatest asset.’ They essentially closed it by making it so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company can go there.”
London
“I look at London where you have a terrible mayor, a terrible, terrible mayor and it’s been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you’re in a different country, you can’t do that.”
Washington, DC
“Speaking of crime, Washington D.C., Washington D.C. was the crime capital of America. Now, it’s a totally… After 12 days, it’s a totally safe city. Everyone’s going out to dinner, they’re going out to restaurants. Your wife can walk down the middle of the street with or without you. Nothing’s going to happen. My people have done a fantastic job.”
Immigration
“Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before with different customs, religions, with different everything.”
“Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately.”
“They must take control strongly and immediately of the unmitigated immigration disaster and the fake energy catastrophe before it’s too late. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction.”
“If you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail.”
“I’m the President of the United States, but I worry about Europe. I love Europe. I love the people of Europe, and I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake, and they cannot let that happen any longer.”
“You’re doing it because you want to be nice, you want to be politically correct and you’re destroying your heritage.”
Renewable Energy“We’re getting rid of the falsely named renewables. By the way, they’re a joke. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They’re not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great.”
“The wind doesn’t blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time and they start to rust and rot. Most expensive energy ever conceived.”
In the end, Trump’s UN appearance was less a diplomatic address than a performance, raw, chaotic, and dripping with grievance. He didn’t come to build bridges or inspire consensus; he came with matches and a list of perceived enemies. For his supporters, it was classic Trump: unfiltered, unapologetic, and defiantly combative. For much of the rest of the world, it was a sobering reminder of how one man’s politics of grievance can upend the very stage meant to foster global cooperation. The General Assembly is usually a place where words are chosen carefully; this time, they were hurled like grenades.
