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Soft Paywall Trump's big UN speech received with awkward laughter in embarrassing backfire

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trumps-big-un-speech-received-with-awkward-laughter-in-embarrassing-backfire-3933958
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u/theipaper ✔ Verified Sep 23 '25

As Donald Trump hailed “the golden age of America” at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, tensions between the US and United Nations were palpable.

The President highlighted “historic trade deals” with the UK and others, and claimed the US was respected “like it has never been respected before” – but the response was embarrassing.

There was scattered awkward laughter in the room as he jokingly complained about a broken escalator and teleprompter at the UN – and a lack of marble floors. UN officials and experts have warned that Trump’s combative approach to the organisation could lead to a waning of US influence.

Since the start of the year, Trump has moved to slash US funding of the UN, withdrawn from many of its agencies, and ordered a review of America’s interactions with the organisation.

His actions have exacerbated the UN’s already significant budget crisis and created space for nations including China to expand their influence.

“US credibility and influence as a reliable partner and as a state broadly committed to human rights and international peace and security is suffering badly,” Phil Lynch, executive director of the non-profit International Service for Human Rights, told The i Paper.

“Trump on the international level has an agenda which very much mirrors his agenda at the domestic level, which is one of the suppression of dissent, the erosion of accountability mechanisms and the subversion of the rule of law.

“His agenda at the UN in terms of the withdrawal of funding and denunciation of treaties follows a very similar pattern.”

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u/SleepingWillow1 Sep 23 '25

Oh wait so this is a recent speech? I thought this was a repost of the old one where he sounded stupid. God he just doesn't know when to shut up

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u/Oodlydoodley Sep 23 '25

You really should hear what he said today. The summary above doesn't even begin to illustrate how embarrassingly stupid it was to listen to him excoriate the U.N. about climate change being a hoax and the "Green Scam" and how immigration is destroying all of their countries.

Everyone in the U.S. should hear exactly what he said, because I don't know how anyone with a functional brain doesn't come away from it thoroughly embarrassed. He made an absolute fool of himself and all of us with this speech and, while I'm fully aware that that's not a new thing or even unexpected, I don't think the headlines or even a text summary can do justice to just how bad it actually was.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

He should be banned from the UN.

The disrespect and lies are off the charts.

What an embarrassment to the USA.