It was scheduled to be 15 minutes—but on the other hand, if the U.N. membership was shocked at the candor of Donald Trump, Donald Trump had ample reasons to be candid because before he even gave the speech, he and first lady Melania Trump and their entourage were just, the minute they got on the escalator, it mysteriously shut down. First of all, he said the U.N. had been of no real importance when he was trying to negotiate peace, or at least a ceasefire, with the Congo and Rwanda, with Serbia and Bosnia, with Russia, of course, and Ukraine, Pakistan and India. And that offended the rest of the world that wasn’t—didn’t get that privilege of having a U.S. president talk directly to them, but it also got the Europeans angry because he was telling them the truth.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-10-01 21:34:41
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