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UNITED NATIONS — President Trump’s bellicose speech to the United Nations on Tuesday drew a series of good-versus-evil lines that forecast confrontations
to come as he vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if it threatened the United States and
denounced the nuclear agreement with Iran as “an embarrassment” that he may
abandon.
[Stupid remark. North Korea "threatens" us like... once a week.
Trump is... "an embarrassment" I wish we could abandon.]
From the dais of an organization meant to bring the nations of the world together, the president defended his America First policy and argued that nationalism can be reconciled with common causes. He repeatedly used the word “sovereignty” to describe
his approach in a setting where the term traditionally has been brandished by nations like Russia and China to deflect criticism of their actions.
[Nationalism could be reconciled with common causes in many cases,
but in Trump's case it almost always *isn't*.]
But it was his sharp-edged condemnations of international outliers like North Korea, Iran and Venezuela that drew the most attention in the room as he framed
the conflicts over their actions as a test of the international system. With typical Trumpian
flourishes like vowing to crush “loser terrorists” and labeling North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, “Rocket Man,” Mr. Trump at times dispensed with the restrained rhetoric many American presidents use at the United Nations.
[Trump does not even know how to speak with grace and decorum.
He is totally "an embarrassment" and he needs to be abandoned.
Check out how this professional linguist analyzes Trump's shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTwG9fw-JY]
“If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph,” he said as the audience of presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and diplomats remained largely stone-faced. “When decent people and nations become bystanders to
history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength.”
[Trump, we will continue to confront you. We will *not* become bystanders.]
Mr. Trump singled out North Korea for his harshest words, broadening his indictment of the Pyongyang government beyond just its pursuit of nuclear weapons to its treatment of its own people and captured foreigners like the American college student who
died shortly after being released and sent back to the United States.
“No nation on Earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles,” Mr. Trump said. “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or
its allies, we will have
no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”
[I have to agree that it does seem like a suicide mission.
Different language here, though: "forced to defend itself"
is much more reasonable.]
Without mentioning it by name, Mr. Trump also chastised China for continuing to
deal with its rogue neighbor. “It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime, but would arm, supply and financially support a country that
imperils the world with nuclear conflict,” the president said.
[North Korea is China's neighbor and ally. Both have a form of communism.]
He went on to assail the Iran agreement, which was negotiated by President Barack Obama and leaders of five other powers and ratified by the United Nations Security Council to curb Tehran’s nuclear program for a decade in exchange for lifting
international sanctions. Under American law, Mr. Trump has until Oct. 15 to certify whether Iran is complying with the agreement, which he has done twice so far since taking office. But he has made clear that he would prefer not to do so again, which
could result in the unraveling of the accord.
“The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,” Mr. Trump told the United Nations audience. “Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I
don’t think you’ve
heard the last of it, believe me.”
[He really needs to stop using the phrase: "an embarrassment to the US".
His rhetoric on Iran is mostly ideologically motivated bullshit.]
The tough words cheered the delegation from Israel, whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and advisers applauded. “In over 30 years in my experience with the U.N., I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech,” Mr. Netanyahu said afterward.
President Trump spoke the truth about the great dangers facing our world and issued a powerful call to confront them in order to ensure the future of humanity.”
Others called his speech over-the-top and counterproductive.
“If Trump was determined to demonstrate to the world that he is unhinged and an imminent danger to world peace, he has succeeded with this speech, and will only make it harder for him to win over the world to his self-destructive goals,” said Trita
Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, a Washington-based group that is critical of the Tehran government but advocates more engagement.
[Trump's approach to Iran is indeed "unhinged".]
Neither Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, nor Mohammad Javad Zarif, its foreign minister, were in the hall for Mr. Trump’s speech. North Korea’s ambassador left his seat before the president started speaking. The rest of the
audience gave Mr. Trump
polite but unenthusiastic applause.
[Unenthusiastic general reception in the UN. Naturally, and appropriately.]
Mr. Trump made no mention of climate change, Middle East peace or other issues that typically occupy American attention at the United Nations. It fell to Secretary General António Guterres to lay out the more traditional United Nations view of the world
as he opened the annual United Nations General Assembly session.
“Trust within and among countries is being driven down by those who demonize and divide,” he said in a speech that included English, French and Spanish.
Citing hurricanes that recently ravaged Texas, Florida and the Caribbean, Mr. Guterres called on the world to live up to its promises in the Paris climate change accord, an agreement Mr. Trump has announced he will pull the United States out of. “We
know enough today to act,” he said. “The science is unassailable.”
[Correct. It is unassailable. But our President is a science denier.
It conflicts with maximally exploitative money-making, you see.]
Mr. Guterres criticized what he called “closed doors and open hostility” in
the face of vast refugee crises and called on countries to treat those crossing
borders with “simple decency and human compassion.”
[Trump's policies on refugees are offensive and absurd.]
Mr. Trump arrived at the United Nations with a more overtly nationalist approach than past American presidents, predicated on a belief that the United States has been taken advantage of in areas like trade, security and other international affairs. In
addition to abandoning the Paris accord, he has renounced the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact with 11 other nations and threatened to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement if it is not renegotiated to his liking.
[The people of the US long lived like kings compared to most of the world.
We may not be in the top 10 countries any more in terms of quality of life,
but we're still in the top 20.]
In his speech, he used the word “sovereign” or “sovereignty” 21 times. “As president of the United States, I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries, will always and should always put your countries first,
he said, generating a smattering of applause.
[A rigid capitalist approach is the only one the brainless fool knows.
And he's lying, even about that. For he does NOT put "America first".
Not at all. For real, he only puts wealthy Americans first.]
“The United States will forever be a great friend to the world, and especially to its allies,” he went on.
[In what ways? We were the ONLY major country to withdraw from Paris.]
“But we can no longer be taken advantage of or enter into a one-sided deal where the United States gets nothing in return. As long as I hold this office, I will defend America’s interest above all else. But in fulfilling our obligations to our own
nations, we also realize that it’s in everyone’s interest to seek a future where all nations can be sovereign, prosperous and secure.”
Mr. Trump mentioned only in passing one of the most prominent examples of a violation of sovereignty in recent years, the still-unresolved Russian intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. But he went on to denounce the actions of Venezuela’s
government against its own people without explaining how that fit into his concept of respecting sovereignty.
“The Socialist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro has inflicted terrible pain and suffering on the good people of that country,” Mr. Trump said. “This corrupt regime destroyed a prosperous nation by imposing a failed ideology that
has produced poverty
and misery everywhere it has been tried.”
[See it's really only "sovereignty" for any countries holding an ideology
he approves of.]
The focus on sovereignty drew mixed reviews. “The speech was more positive than what was anticipated,” said President Sauli Niinistö of Finland. “There were a few tough comments, especially on North Korea. He stressed the sovereignty of nations.
In my view, he meant that every country and leader should take responsibility for their people’s well-being.”
Aaron David Miller, a former American peace negotiator now at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, said Mr. Trump “awkwardly tried to reconcile” his nationalist approach with the international orientation of the United
Nations. “President Trump’s speech was a confusing hodgepodge of tropes, themes and threats that made one unmistakable point: there is no coherent Trump
Doctrine,” he said.
[Trump is a selfish boob. That's all he'll ever be.]
After the speech, the president planned to have lunch with Mr. Guterres and later meet with Miroslav Lajcak, the Slovak official serving as president of the General Assembly. He also scheduled a meeting with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of
Qatar, a Persian Gulf state Mr. Trump has accused of being a “funder of terrorism.”
Mr. Trump has tried to mediate a standoff between Qatar and other Arab countries. Qatar has sought to convince Mr. Trump that he is wrong about its links to radicalism, airing television ads during the United Nations session with an intended audience of
one featuring captions like, “Qatar Stands With United States Against Terrorism.”
[Trump's actions wrt Katar were full of shit and irresponsible.]
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump will host a diplomatic reception. He will also spend Wednesday and Thursday at the United Nations, meeting separately with the
leaders of Britain, Jordan, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Turkey, Afghanistan and Ukraine. He
will host a luncheon with African leaders and another with the leaders of South
Korea and Japan to seek a common strategy to deal with North Korea.
[Good that he's still seeking a common strategy there.
At least... pretending to.]
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