Donald Trump has returned to the United Nations General Assembly stage after six years, and let’s just say he didn’t exactly embrace the spirit of global cooperation. Instead, the US president delivered a 58‑minute tirade that slammed immigration, dismissed climate change as a “con job”, attacked European leaders, and managed to squeeze in a few jokes about dodgy escalators.
Immigration and “countries going to hell”
Trump spent a large chunk of his speech railing against migration, pointing the finger at Europe in particular. He accused leaders of being too “politically correct” to act, warning them that “illegal aliens are pouring into Europe. It’s not sustainable”.
He went on to say: “Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before with different customs, religions – with different everything.”
The president held up his own crackdown on the US’s southern border as an example, boasting: “I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”
He again took aim at London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, claiming – without evidence – that “now they want to go to Sharia law. But you’re in a different country, you can’t do that”.
Climate change branded a “scam”
Trump was equally blunt on the environment, taking direct shots at renewables. He mocked the term “climate change”, calling it “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion”.
“They said global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting cooler. So now they just call it climate change,” he said. “If it goes higher, lower, whatever the hell happens, there’s climate change.”
He also doubled down on his energy stance: “If you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail.”
Russia, Palestine and global flashpoints
On the war in Ukraine, Trump chastised European nations for continuing to buy Russian oil and gas, despite sanctions.
“They’re funding the war against themselves,” he said. “They have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise, we’re all wasting a lot of time.”
He also hit out at countries including Australia, Canada, the UK and France for recognising Palestine as a sovereign state, arguing it rewarded Hamas for atrocities. “Instead of giving in to Hamas’ ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message: release the hostages now,” Trump told delegates.
The UN itself in his firing line
If that wasn’t enough, Trump also went for the UN directly, branding it a “globalist” body imposing open‑border and climate agendas on nations.
“The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialised nations to inflict pain on themselves … must be rejected completely and totally,” he declared.
Still, in a meeting shortly after his speech with Secretary‑General António Guterres, Trump switched tone, saying: “Our country is behind the United Nations 100 per cent … the potential for peace at this institution is great.”
I have whiplash.
Escalators, teleprompters and a few awkward laughs
True to form, Trump peppered the fiery speech with some humour (intentional or not). He ribbed the UN after an escalator broke while he and Melania were riding it: “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle … and then a teleprompter that didn’t work.”
Delegates ultimately gave him polite applause, though several appeared restless during the marathon delivery, with a few even leaving.
Trump’s broadside against immigration, clean energy, and global institutions has already sparked reactions across world media, but at the UN in New York, he left leaders with one resounding line: “Your countries are going to hell.”
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