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In a nearly hourlong rambling at the UN General Assembly, President Donald Trump launched into a litany of falsehoods, political attacks, and self-praise as he pitched the United States as the “hottest” country in the world in his second term and told world leaders in attendance that their countries were going to hell.
For his failure to bring the Russian war on Ukraine to an end in the first 24 hours of the term as he had promised, Trump blamed China and India, dubbing the two countries as the “primary funders” of the Russian war efforts. He also called upon European countries, who are already on the path to bring the purchase of Russian energy to zero, to cease buying Russian oil and gas. He said the failure to stop would attract high tariffs.
Trump has already slapped India with 50 per cent tariffs for the purchase of Russian oil. But Russian leader Vladimir Putin has not accepted any ceasefire proposal or offer for peace talks. Instead, he has ramped up aerial and ground offensives.
Trump slammed immigration, climate change advocacy that he called a con job and a green scam, and renewable energy that he called a failure. He accused the United Nations (UN) of “funding an assault on Western countries” by migrants. He told the world leaders that their countries were going to hell.
“It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. See, I can tell you. I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell,” said Trump, who said migrants in cities like London were calling for sharia, the Islamic religious law, to replace the UK’s laws.
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Trump chastised Russia but not for invading Ukraine but for failing to defeat and occupy the country in a matter of days.
“It was supposed to be just a quick little skirmish. It’s not making Russia look good. It’s making them look bad. No matter what happens from here on out, this was something that should have taken a matter of days, certainly less than a week, and they’ve been fighting for three and a half years,” said Trump.
Going against science, Trump dubbed coal as a “clean, beautiful” fuel. Without evidence, he dubbed Christianity as the most persecuted religion in the world — even as Buddhists and Muslims in Chinese-controlled Tibet and Xinjiang are essentially barred from practising their faith, culture, and language. Linking migration and renewables, Trump said these were the forces that were “destroying a large part of the free world”. With no reference, he said that environmentalists wanted to kill all the cows in the world.
Without evidence, Trump blamed Asia for the garbage crisis of the United States. He said that the garbage disposed in Asian countries floats to American cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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