Populism Roars Back at UN

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UNITED NATIONS, October 3 (C-Fam) U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s return to the United Nations was a triumph of populism over globalism. He was one of several populist world leaders who criticized the European Union and the United Nations for open borders, climate, and gender policies.

When Trump began speaking in the General Assembly in 2019, the entire hall erupted into laughter and jeers. Last week was very different. There were no laughs. There was no jeering. Trump spoke with his usual bluster. He boasted of creating the best economy the world has ever seen, much as he did five years ago. He bragged of ending seven wars in as many months since taking office. “I’ve been right about everything,” he said. This time, no one dared to laugh. World leaders listened quietly and attentively, maybe even reverently.

“I’ve come here today to offer the hand of American leadership and friendship to any nation,” he began. He said every country was “majestic and unique” and that is “what makes the world so beautiful.” When his teleprompter failed, he made a joke and said he welcomed it as an opportunity to “speak from the heart.”

“I’m the president of the United States, but I worry about Europe,” Trump said. “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.”

“We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people, and I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well,” he explained.

Staring down leaders from Europe, Trump said their countries were “going to hell” because of the “failed experiment” of open borders. “Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing absolutely nothing about it,” he added.

He also accused Europe and China of pushing the world into a “green climate scam,” calling climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” He said UN climate predictions were wrong and “made by stupid people” and that, as a result, they were costing countries their future. “If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,” He warned, emphasizing, “I’m really good at predicting things.”

“I’ll be very badly criticized for saying it. But I’m here to tell the truth. I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me,” Trump explained. “What I care about is not winning prizes but saving lives.”

He said the UN had “tremendous potential” but that it was “not even close” to living up to it. “For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.” He also accused the United Nations of funding mass migration initiatives that encourage illegal Immigration to the United States and Europe.

Trump concluded, saying, “God bless the nations of the world.”

Trump’s remarks were echoed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who called for UN reform and decried the abuse of asylum laws to foment mass migration. Polish President Karol Nawrocki spoke of Poland’s commitment to the protection of life from conception to natural death. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó emphatically said, “No war, no migration, no gender. This is the Hungarian recipe.” Argentine President Javier Milei criticized the top-down imposition of UN polices as a threat to economic development and sovereignty.

 

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