There is no doubt that President Donald Trump and I would totally agree on one thing about his performance Tuesday on the world stage as he addressed the United Nations.
No one has ever seen anything like it.
Besides Trump, however, no one would want to.
No doubt, every cogent Republican and even his own brown-nosing staff must have gasped and cringed throughout the harangue as Trump embarrassed himself, his supporters, the nation and human kind.
What was billed as a major foreign policy address was instead a rambling, incoherent homily that confirmed every doubt about his mental fitness, his contempt for truth, and his willingness to humiliate the United States on the global stage.
Trump’s hour-long rant was a study in delusion, contradiction and self-aggrandizement. He began by loudly stammering about the United Nations having “tremendous potential” but was “not even coming close” to fulfilling it. In nearly the same twitchy warble during his opera of the absurd, however, he bragged about pulling the United States out of the World Health Organization, abandoning the U.N. Human Rights Council, and reviewing hundreds of other international commitments to see if they fit his personal political agenda. He declared the world body useless, then turned around after the speech and assured Secretary General Antonio Guterres that the U.S. is “One hundred percent behind” the organization.
Well, President “Stable Genius,” which is it?
This wasn’t just the usual, jarring Trump political posturing. When it wasn’t incoherent, it was a profusion of misinformation, disinformation, exaggeration and outright lies.
Trump stumbled through contradictory positions as if he were the world’s arsonist and firefighter, boasting about creating peace while simultaneously pulling out his toy gun to point at Iran and Venezuela. He praised himself as a peacemaker while openly celebrating his decision to order airstrikes that killed alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean, which many human rights advocates consider extra-judicial executions.
As he stammered and wailed, Trump’s speech veered into outright nonsense. He warned European nations of a “double-tailed monster.” It was apparently his bizarre allegory for immigration and renewable energy. He claimed these two forces “destroy everything in their wake.”
He said climate change and green energy were a “scam” that would cause nations to fail.
Trump told Europeans their cultures were being “devastated” by migrants “you have nothing in common with.”
It’s as if he doesn’t remember that most of us know that some of his favorite wives are immigrants.
The two-tail metaphor fell flat, eliciting groans and nervous laughter from delegates. It was the rhetoric of a crank.
The speech had all the markings of being created by a third-rate AI chatbot and then polished with Trump’s own extemporaneous “skills.”
But the most disturbing part of this jaw-clencher was the president’s apparent detachment from reality. He again falsely insisted that he has “ended seven wars” and hinted, again, that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump’s whack wonderment is not just exaggeration. It is a delusion. None of the conflicts he cited have ended. Russia continues to viciously attack Ukraine. Hamas and Israel remain locked in a war that has become a genocidal nightmare, and violence persists in places like Sudan and the Congo. Trump’s fantasy diplomacy exists only on Fox News and in his own imagination.
That imagination has grown even more dark and paranoid than when Trump banned Muslims from entering the United States and when he attacked his own best allies because they want to know the truth about Trump and the Epstein files.
His xenophobic, anti-scientific, reckless rhetoric might play well to the darkest corners of his naive political base. At the U.N., however, in front of representatives of nearly every nation on Earth, it made the US look like it’s been hijacked by a tiny-handed, small-minded, angry and unhinged orange-colored guy who isn’t getting the medication or mental health he so desperately needs.
His steely fixation on his own supposed greatness, his bitterness toward international institutions, and his inability to use or connect facts in a coherent order all points to a man struggling with something deeper than bad speech writing. World leaders and anyone who watched from outside and endured his monologue could not have missed the signs of Trump’s clear cognitive deficiency and psychological instability.
This spectacle was a critical gaffe not just because it was profoundly embarrassing. It mattered because the United States desperately needs credibility at the U.N. as wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan.
The world is desperate for sound and steady leadership. Instead, the United States offered Trump’s rambling paranoia, his boasts of violence, and his sneering contempt for the very institution in which he delivered his disturbed manifesto against windmills, immigrants and Barack Obama.
It’s hard to determine what’s more unnerving: that Trump is dangerously in charge of the country, or that there is a considerable number of Americans that are OK with that, or just don’t know or care.
Trump and his toadies have reduced our allies to laughter, emboldened our adversaries, and made our nation look unreliable and unstable, which it clearly is.
The United States needs much more than Trump and his sycophants, and we need it now.
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We’ve heard all these accusations before; ever since 2016 actually. We already know President Trump’s strengths and his flaws. He was re-elected with us knowing them. Mr. Perry, you aren’t changing anyone’s mind.
This article effectively captures Trumps erratic UN speech, painting a vivid picture of his delusional and divisive rhetoric. The authors sharp wit and relentless criticism make for a compelling read, leaving no doubt about the presidents alarming disconnect from reality.
Yes, to leftists, anyone who doesn’t bow down to them is “divisive.”
The best part of the event is that if the UN staffers hadn’t acted like a bunch of passive-aggressive little dorks, Trump would have done his 15 minute speech, walked off, and no one would have cared.
You dopes just can’t stop stepping on that rake.
The opinion piece accurately captured Trump’s embarrassing flop at the UN. Now, he is using the world stage to lobby, and if that doesn’t work, bully the world into awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize. Except he forgot that you actually have to earn it. He’s done nothing to deter Russia despite his empty threats and assurances of a quick end to the war. He’s also standing by and letting Netanyahu commit Palestinian Genocide. He, once again, trotted out his lie that he ended 7 wars. What??? Where??? The only thing I would disagree with in this opinion is that any one of his cabinet of toadies was actually embarrassed. Steven Miller was probably back stage mouthing his NAZI-inspired speech!
I am not an expert in the Latin language, but I believe genocide is a combination of the words gene and death. Genocide is therefore the endeavor to rid an ethnic groups genes from the worldwide gene pool by killing everyone in that ethnic group. I see no such effort here. More redefinition of terms by the Left, which they do non-stop.
Webster’s tells you what you need to know about where the word “genocide” comes from.
Under a minute to check this out. You don’t have to be an expert in Latin to learn this, just look the damned word up.
LOL, cope harder.
As usual, Trump captured some important truths inside his clumsy, self aggrandizing rant. You have to work to separate his exaggerations from the truth. Most of his speeches could be shortened by his holding up a sign that simply says, “God, I’m wonderful”. He probably spends a great deal of each day saying, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall”.
Funny and true post. We all knew that Donald Trump was “full of himself” and acts unpresidential at times, long before the election. But when faced with the choice between “woke communism” and Trump’s “America First” policies, Americans correctly chose Donald Trump by a landslide. It’s was “package deal.”
Landslide? Trump won 1.5% more of the vote than Harris. A win, to be sure, but a laughable “landslide”.
Funny and true post. We all knew that Donald Trump was “full of himself” and acts unpresidential at times, long before the election. But when faced with the choice between “woke communism” and Trump’s “America First” policies, Americans correctly chose Donald Trump by a landslide. It’s was “package deal.”
Yeah, they seem thrilled about it.
BTW, “woke communism”? You’re the only one talking about “communism”. Sheesh.