In a long speech to the United Nations, US President Donald Trump celebrated himself in the first place on Tuesday and in the meantime fiercely lashed out for green policy, migration and political correctness. Especially Europe and the UN itself had to suffer.
“Immigration and greening destroy the free world,” he said. The UN, claimed Trump, “financing an attack on the borders of Western countries” by stimulating migration. Migration and life-threatening views on energy “are the death blow for Western Europe.”
He called on Landen to follow his example and close the boundaries. “It is time to end the failed experiment of open borders.”
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He called climate change. And he lashed out to the United Kingdom, which would not get enough oil from the North Sea. Wind energy also had to suffer. The turbines often come from China, which, claimed Trump, does not generate wind energy itself. China is known as one of the leaders in the field of wind energy.
Teleprompter
Trump started relaxing and with humor. When he climbed the stage in the large hall of the general meeting, the teleprompter turned out not to be done. “The person who serves the teleprompter today has a big problem.” To stretch time, he greeted the First Lady for a moment and then pulling for 56 minutes of leather. His speech was full of exaggeration and wrong claims. He also said that environmental activists want to kill cows.
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He opened a long congratulation to himself. He called the US the “Hottest Country” in the world. No country even comes close to the US. This, said Trump, is the Golden Age of America. The prices of energy have fallen, the prices of groceries have fallen, mortgages are less expensive, inflation has been overcome. Only the stock market and wages are rising.
The list of his performance was long. The NATO countries raised their defense expenditure. Many trade treaties were closed. Trump was particularly proud of his role as a peacemaker. “I put an end to seven wars and I did that in just seven months.”
I put an end to seven wars and I did that in just seven months
He mentioned the conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, Cambodia and Thailand, Egypt and Ethiopia and between Kosovo and Serbia. Trumps claims are dubious in a number of cases. For example, Egypt and Ethiopia did not wage war, but they have a high -running conflict over a dam that Ethiopia built in the Nile. India disputes that Trump has put an end to the confrontation with Pakistan.
It was, Trump said, a pity that I had to take this on me and that the UN didn’t do it. In fact, he said, the UN didn’t even help. He didn’t even get a phone call from the UN. What did he get? An escalator that stopped halfway on Tuesday and almost overturned Melania. According to Trump, the UN is only good for empty words, but with empty words you don’t end up wars.
Marble and mahogany
Trump is still angry with the UN because he, before he became president, went wrong to renovate the UN. If they had listened to him, it would have become much cheaper and much nicer. He had built marble and mahogany, not with plastic and granito.
In addition to personal frustrations, Trump also treated the major conflicts. He said that the war in Gaza should be ended immediately and lashed out to countries that have recognized Palestine as a state. “Some here want to recognize the Palestinian state. The reward for the terror of Hamas and his violence is too great.”
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He said he was surprised that it turns out to be so difficult to put an end to Putin’s war in Ukraine, because he had known Putin for a long time. He repeated that he is willing to take countries that take oil and gas from Russia, such as India and China, to punish with high import duties, but only if European countries also participate. He said he had only recently discovered that Europe still imports fossil fuel from Russia. “Think about that: they finance the war against themselves. Who makes something like that?”
Europe wants the US to put more pressure on Russia, but the requirement to impose high taxes on China, India and Turkey is not an option for Europe. There is a suspicion that Trump makes impossible requirements to escape a harsh approach to Russia.
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