Trump: 'What Is the Purpose of the United Nations?'
Watched by the world, President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations on Tuesday, delivering a blistering rebuke of his predecessor and the U.N.
"Six years have passed since I last stood in this grand hall and addressed a world that was prosperous and at peace in my first term," Trump said at the outset of his speech, despite a broken teleprompter. "Since that day, the guns of war have shattered the peace I forged on two continents, an era of calm and stability gave way to one of the great crises of our time.
"And here in the United States, four years of weakness, lawlessness, and radicalism under the last administration delivered our nation into a repeated set of disasters."
World leaders listened closely to his remarks at the U.N. General Assembly, as Trump hailed the settling of seven wars without the help of the U.N.
"It's never happened before," Trump said. "It's never been anything like that. Very honored to have done it. It's too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them.
"And sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any of them. I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal."
Trump quipped that a broken escalator and faulty teleprompter symbolized the U.N.'s dysfunction.
"All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, on the way up, stopped right in the middle," Trump said. "If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen.
"But she's in great shape. We're both in good shape. We both stood.
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My Comment: Now this is what I voted for.