Trump’s Crazed U.N. Speech Met With Silence and Walkouts

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https://newrepublic.com/post/215711/trump-un-speech-silence-walkouts

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[u/Koochikins]

You mean doing a campaign rally speech at the UN, which has never worked, is still not working for him.

[u/ericl666 → u/Koochikins]

I love how he waits for applause. Bitch, this ain't a maga rally.

[u/Sunnygirl66 → u/ericl666]

And looks all smug as he pauses. So slappable.

[u/CollegeMiddle6841 → u/Sunnygirl66]

The world may have been spared the abomination that is Trump as President if someone would have done just that, punched his nose hard.

[u/st00ji → u/CollegeMiddle6841]

I hear Will Smith is available pretty cheaply these days

[u/Intrepid_Hat7359 → u/st00ji]

Quick, someone goad Trump into insulting Jada

[u/KeithRichardsGrandma → u/CollegeMiddle6841]

Ooh if that dude ever got punched in the face he would have fled the country. Win win in my book

[u/gholt417 → u/ericl666]

He knows how long to wait so the culty tv broadcasters can add the tv applause for the MAGA market.

[u/Baconshit → u/gholt417]

TRUMPTV absolutely will…sigh

[u/pattyG80 → u/Koochikins]

He actually isn't doing a campaign speech...this is the same verbal diahrea he does no matter what

[u/Cold_Shogun → u/pattyG80]

That is his campaign speech lol

[u/DebatedUncreative → u/Cold_Shogun]

The consequence of not knowing how to do anything but talk about yourself. No matter the situation or circumstance, he doesn't know how to do anything else.

[u/FunSpiritual7596 → u/Cold_Shogun]

1 trick pony... Er donkey

[u/ExoticDisaster0 → u/FunSpiritual7596]

Ass

[u/USNCCitizen → u/pattyG80]

“Verbal diarrhea” is always an apt phase to use whenever referring to anything trump says.

[u/itsjustme444444 → u/pattyG80]

He’s been on the trumpyboi greatest hits tour since 2020! Same shit every fucking time! Sure he’ll throw in something off the latest album like today he threw out the his new name AI, calling it super intelligence. Other than that it’s the election was stolen, the democrats are to blame for____(fill in the blank), and blah, blah, blah. I’m so sick of this fucking asshole! Fuck trumpyboi, his minions, and his magabraindead cult!

[u/shinyperineum → u/Koochikins]

I dunno. Maybe he’ll become presidential next time. Let’s give him one more chance again… …

[u/unaskthequestion → u/shinyperineum]

Found JD's account, lol

[u/OceanRacoon → u/unaskthequestion]

Vance surely despises Trump and wishes he would drop dead so he could be President and not have to be his bitch lol. 

Which makes it all the more pathetic how much he sucks him off publicly, he has no principles beyond wanting power and money 

[u/narwhals_narwhals → u/OceanRacoon]

Vance doesn't want him dead yet, though. If Trump makes it into February, Vance can finish out this term and then still run for two more. If he gets stuck with more than two years of this term, though, he can only run for one more.

[u/AnotherOrc → u/narwhals_narwhals]

Vance is delusional if he thinks he’ll ever win an election legitimately. He should be praying to whichever god is most politically convenient to him that Trump drops dead posthaste.

[u/Retr0scores → u/AnotherOrc]

Vance has the charisma of a pair of wet jeans. Even Fox News turned away from his “rally” speech yesterday 8mins in and never returned, lmao.

[u/nippletumor → u/Retr0scores]

That shit was so funny. "Uh, we'll be back if he actually makes some news..." Fuckin lol

[u/MrMeseeksLookAtMee → u/AnotherOrc]

Dude can't even order a donut without making it extremely awkward

[u/PsychologyOld4009]

the walkouts are one thing, but the lack of applause at the moments where he seemed to expect it must have made the room feel incredibly awkwarrd

[u/FlerplesMerples → u/PsychologyOld4009]

These international forums are by far the worst crowds for him. Everyone in the room has serious diplomatic goals. Everyone in the room has prepared extensively for this event. Everyone in the room is more intelligent than he is. His campaign-style grievance ramblings just don’t work in that kind of environment and despite being in New York, there’s no home field advantage. I’m actually glad he speaks at these things from time to time because we all get a glimpse of Trump without the culty buff he enjoys elsewhere. In this room, he’s seen as the naked stupid fool that he is.

[u/radioref → u/FlerplesMerples]

It’s worse than that. There have been numerous instances in these types of forums where he has been openly laughed at and essentially mocked.

[u/Pretend-Ad5598 → u/radioref]

“Not the reaction I was expecting, but okay.” As the UN openly laughs at his claim that he did more than any other president.

That feels so long ago now.

[u/squadrupedal → u/Pretend-Ad5598]

At least 3 lives ago at this point

[u/danishjuggler21 → u/Pretend-Ad5598]

That was his first term before COVID. God, that was an eternity ago.

[u/jasta6 → u/radioref]

Good. He needs to be confronted with his numerous failures at every opportunity.

[u/Jthundercleese → u/jasta6]

His personality disorder doesn't let him feel shame. Super unfortunate.

[u/anotherlevl → u/Jthundercleese]

Shame, perhaps not, but he certainly experiences discomfort from the gap between the admiration to which he thinks he's entitled and the indifference-to-contempt he actually receives.

[u/PrinceAdamsPinkVest → u/anotherlevl]

Shame just gets replaced with rage

[u/JealousAstronomer342 → u/PrinceAdamsPinkVest]

That’s NPD in a nutshell, any emotion that is intolerably painful quickly becomes rage and disgust.  

[u/MildGenevaSuggestion → u/radioref]

I remember the one where he bragged about being the best president ever and the room chuckled assuming it was self deprecating humour. Trump never laughs at himself.

[u/tweakingforjesus → u/MildGenevaSuggestion]

Didn't he say something like "I didn't expect that..."

[u/ArgyBargyOiOiOi → u/radioref]

Love to see it.

[u/Totorotextbook → u/FlerplesMerples]

Even being in New York doesn’t help him, they’ve hated that Orange Twat for decades now.

[u/rainator → u/FlerplesMerples]

Also all of them know that he is a cretin and that fawning achieves nothing.

[u/Tokie-Dokie → u/PsychologyOld4009]

Makes one wonder if Stephen Miller incorporated “wait for applause” into the speech he downloaded from CHAT GPT.

[u/dexter-sinister → u/PsychologyOld4009]

Or gratifying, depending on your perspective. 

[u/HorseThrough → u/dexter-sinister]

"Please clap"

[u/dumb-dumb87 → u/PsychologyOld4009]

He fully expected a few minutes of applause after the super intelligence curveball

[u/wrxninja]

We are such an embarrassment to the world.

[u/Oleg101 → u/wrxninja]

R voters, even the “non-maga types”, have it in their minds the opposite. Truly disturbing.

[u/DisastroImminente → u/Oleg101]

It’s amazing to hear them say “the world finally respects us now!”

They only respect us in a sense that you respect the mentally disturbed guy in your town that wanders around the street yelling at the top of his lungs and making no sense. You take a wide berth and hope to not draw their attention.

[u/Miqo_Nekomancer → u/DisastroImminente]

Whilst carrying a loaded gun. Can't forget that fun twist on the proverbial situation.

[u/taylorisntavril → u/Miqo_Nekomancer]

And naming specific people in the town and how he wants to get them.

[u/reclusivegiraffe → u/DisastroImminente]

I respect those people more tbh, they at least have an excuse

[u/Carbonatite → u/DisastroImminente]

Everyone "respects" the rabid raccoon too.

[u/mjohnsimon → u/Oleg101]

My dad will hear what Trump says, word for word, look me dead in the eye, and then claim that this is what America needs and that people now respect us.

[u/therossboss → u/mjohnsimon]

hey, your dad is an idiot.

[u/zooolady → u/therossboss]

Mine too. He's a European history teacher. He's literally the one who taught me the terms "propaganda" and "dog-whistle". I just can't. It's been so hard losing this much respect for him so fast.

[u/therossboss → u/zooolady]

That is a wild one to read. Sorry about your father.

[u/Questjon → u/mjohnsimon]

Tell your Dad the rest of the world thinks Grandpa has shit the bed but everyone is pretending they can't smell it because they know he'll cut them out of the will if they do.

[u/Lo_Lifer → u/Oleg101]

I know you put it in quotes but it's worth reinforcing: there are no such thing as non-MAGA Republicans.

[u/specqq → u/wrxninja]

I guess he was right that the world isn’t laughing at us anymore.

They’re far too horrified for that.

[u/jahathebrn → u/specqq]

For real, it stopped being funny a long time ago

[u/kevnmartin → u/jahathebrn]

For me it stopped being funny in 2015, when I saw him being interviewed on CNN and they were treating him like a serious candidate for president.

[u/CanadianGuy39 → u/wrxninja]

You guys really have no idea. We mostly all hate USA now, and I know there are many good people there still (obviously).

There are a few hardcore right wing ppl that like what's happening, but USA is likely the most hated place on Earth right now. Clearly there are way worse things happening in other countries, but because of the status USA once held, it's grabbing everyone's hatred.

I'll say it again...I never could have imagined this happening.

[u/recycledfrogs → u/CanadianGuy39]

I’m sorry. It’s so embarrassing.

[u/Th3R00ST3R → u/recycledfrogs]

It's way past embarrassing by now. We can't just chalk it it up to embarrassment.
He's a criminal.
Vote in Nov!

[u/Carbonatite → u/CanadianGuy39]

We deserve it. I'm genuinely ashamed and I 100% understand why other countries hate us. I hate it here too right now.

[u/arctic11z → u/Carbonatite]

I'm absolutely ashamed to be here. I noticed the other day I'm unintentionally avoiding people who have the flag on or near them.

[u/Shopworn_Soul → u/CanadianGuy39]

When you double and triple down on what everyone hated and completely eliminate anything that anyone ever liked, you're left with...well. The present existence of the United States.

[u/itsjustme444444 → u/CanadianGuy39]

How do you think we feel? Intelligent people know how the rest of the world feels about us, the rest believe every word he says!

[u/Fine_Ad_1149 → u/CanadianGuy39]

Are there worse things happening elsewhere? Sure.

Can we call it *way* worse? We have concentration camps, we have fascism, we have poor and worsening education, we have poor and worsening worker protections, we have poor and worsening health care, we started an unnecessary war for the sake of hubris and distraction, we have pedophiles in positions of power without accountability, and while we may not be committing it, we are funding and arming a genocide. Oh... Racism, sexism, homophobia, etc are all on the table again too.

So yea, there's worse... But by how much?

[u/RowanTheKiwi → u/Fine_Ad_1149]

What you’ve failed to list, is that the US’s unnecessary war has caused world wide economic chaos, pushing prices of food, fuel, shipping up for everyone. Shit is about to hit the fan as all the oil reserves dumped on the market to soften the wars impact is now coming to an end, so diesel prices are going up, everywhere. This will cause food prices to skyrocket everywhere.

[u/AxelNotRose → u/Fine_Ad_1149]

The next step is shooting innocent people in their cars and not being held accountable.

Oh wait...

[u/elshizzo]

Republicans in congress enabling this madness to continue are traitors to the country

[u/gonzodie → u/elshizzo]

Its not even just Republicans, its anyone with money who thinks they can make a dollar off of this lunacy. 

[u/PontyPandy → u/gonzodie]

That Nvidia clown, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc., and also any corporation that paid him off or tucked the tail.

[u/wowlock_taylan]

I mean, no sane person wants to sit there and listen a senile fascist pedo ranting about his evil delusions.

[u/grunkfest → u/wowlock_taylan]

30% or so of Americans still approve of him.

[u/badamant → u/grunkfest]

Reminder:

This DOES NOT mean that republicans wont vote for republicans.

I just means that some will feel bad about it.

[u/Dmbfantomas → u/badamant]

The key is making them so indifferent they don’t vote.

[u/Phearwyn → u/Dmbfantomas]

Shame the fuck out of them every day for the next 100 years

[u/Dmbfantomas → u/Phearwyn]

They don’t feel shame. That just emboldens them. Just ignore them and make little side comments that they agree with. “Shit sucks, man”. “Yeah”. Enough of those little things build up.

[u/cornflower4 → u/Dmbfantomas]

These people would rather give up family, friends, jobs than admit they are wrong about Trump and the “Dems”. I have lost so many friends over this.

[u/Rostifur → u/Dmbfantomas]

I think he is actually doing that currently. They are at the point where they would rather bitch about liberals than have to deal with actually questioning there decisions. The whole "take that liberals" movement has resulted in far too much "wait I didn't understand the AOE of this action".

[u/realaccountissecret → u/Rostifur]

The funniest example of this is someone who said “I thought it was fun, like sports”

Any republican policy falls apart upon any level of scrutiny. That’s why they have to culture war shit so hard. Their voters have zero clue what they’re actually voting for. Even when he’s TELLING them

[u/private_developer → u/realaccountissecret]

They will run countless ads saying nothing but "TRANS AGENDA, SEX CHANGE ON YOUR KIDS" and then I gotta listen to these mouth breathers say "dems pushed people away with their culture war bs."

[u/blazing_straddles → u/badamant]

no they won't. they will create some absurd justification and pat each other on the back on the facebook.

[u/sdboy7 → u/grunkfest]

Even the ones that approve of him don’t want to listen to him, my moms a cult member and says she hates to hear him talk.

[u/_wait_for_signs_ → u/sdboy7]

The same “Christians” who don’t want to hear what Christ had to say are Trumpers who don’t want to hear what their orange idol has to say.

I hope I never find out what that level of cognitive dissonance feels like.

[u/FirefighterLeft5425 → u/_wait_for_signs_]

Never trust a Christian.

That's what I've learned through all of this.

[u/bb_kelly77 → u/FirefighterLeft5425]

More accurately never trust a Christian that has to tell you they're a Christian... that's even in the Bible

[u/Sir_Clarence_III_Esq → u/sdboy7]

Yup, I have a bunch of extended family that are the same way. All devout "Christians" that will vote for him because he helps their Christian-nationalist interests. If only there was something in the Bible about turning a blind eye to immorality for self-enrichment, or giving the Devil a foothold.

[u/Djangowasilentj → u/grunkfest]

They just own a crap load of stock in Depends and don't want to lose their retirement

[u/cha3d → u/grunkfest]

99% of the world wonders why we don’t kick him out.

[u/CaliIsReallyNice → u/grunkfest]

That is the problem of our generation. What do we do with 100,000,000 deranged fucking idiots who are actively proud of never changing their minds, never admitting they’re wrong, never learning?

[u/FilthyCasual2k17 → u/wowlock_taylan]

Imagine you work your whole life towards being there in UN trying to work with world leaders to solve world problems, and this shitstain comes there and rants about how he is going to erase a civilization and then how many votes he got.

[u/TheVirginVibes → u/[deleted]]

He only has one setting. Deranged Psychopath.

[u/unaskthequestion → u/[deleted]]

I'm no expert, but I remember the guy who wrote 'The Art of the Deal' for Trump saying that Trump doesn't really know what a lie is, he just believes that he can kind of create his reality by saying whatever he wants to be true and some people will believe it. Like when he lies about how many floors his building has. He doesn't think of it in terms of a lie, he just knows it helps him get what he wants.

But I think it's different now that he's losing cognitive function. He has no idea how to react when someone tells him "No, that's not true". He snaps, just like my dad did in his last stages of Alzheimer's.

[u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms → u/unaskthequestion]

That's exactly it. His family was personal friends with Norman Vincent Peale when he was young (the guy who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking, basically the granddaddy of "The Secret" and other similar "positive thinking" woo). Trump took this idea to heart at a young age, and developed this worldview that if you say a thing, you make it true, regardless of whether it was true before that.

For most people, this would be a pathetically ineffectual delusion that would eventually evaporate after colliding with reality, but Trump has always had so much wealth that he's been able to hire Yes-men that can either make things he says come true, or at least make them appear true, to him. If that fails, his lawyers clean up the mess for him. He's never had any real negative consequences from lying 'creating his reality,' so he's been able to convince himself that it's working.

[u/sturgill_homme → u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms]

It’s like everyone who has fallen upward their entire lives has landed in a presidential cabinet simultaneously.

[u/GameTheory27 → u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms]

he learned it from reading Mein Kampf and related material. I wish I was kidding.

[u/super_sayanything → u/GameTheory27]

He had a book of Hitler's speeches he slept with, not Mein Kampf. He didn't know the difference. I doubt he could read an entire book.

[u/Llb52 → u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms]

Not wealth, the “illusion of wealth” and Roy Cohn was his mentor.

[u/PM_ME_UR_TICKET_STUB]

My 69 year old business owning, manual laborer Midwestern father eats, breaths, sleeps Fox News. He isn’t crazy merch wearing/flag waving MAGA…but he is a Trump supporter nonetheless. I personally blame the Fox News propaganda brainwashing being effective. He just spews all their talking points verbatim.

However, this morning, I got a 5 paragraph text from him saying how he might actually believe Trump lies and isn’t as good as people make him out to be. This is the first time, in over a decade, my dad has said anything negative about Trump. He’s always spun things around to try and not do it. But today he went all in. Saying he is embarrassing to watch. Admitting the war is stupid and he lied about it. Blaming him for prices.

The tides are slowly turning. And I hope more people are able to snap out of it.

[u/inv4zn → u/PM_ME_UR_TICKET_STUB]

While you're right, the real issue is that a lot of the hardcore Republicans would still never vote for the other party, regardless if they acknowledge that Trump is unfit.

[u/gibbojab → u/inv4zn]

While true, if they lost faith they most likely wouldn’t vote at all which is a passive vote for the opposition.

[u/nunchybonkey → u/inv4zn]

My mom has been a Trump supporter for 11 years and she called me last week to tell me he’s out of control. She said she will just not vote going forward, but I convinced her if she wants things to have any hope to get better she has to vote blue. I don’t know if she will do it but it was the first time in my life she actually listened to me regarding politics.

[u/Godlesspants → u/inv4zn]

You don't need them to vote for the other party. You just need them to decide not to vote.

[u/bigedthebad → u/PM_ME_UR_TICKET_STUB]

My little town used to e covered in Trump signs. They are all gone

[u/Snobolski → u/bigedthebad]

They'll still vote for him, they just stopped advertising it.

[u/Ring_Peace → u/PM_ME_UR_TICKET_STUB]

It's very hard to admit you were wrong, see the positive in that.

[u/Mala_Practice]

What an absolute loser. Why is he giving a campaign speech to the UN?

[u/LividTacos → u/Mala_Practice]

Oh thats easy. That's the only type of speech he can give.

[u/Tiny_Structure_7 → u/Mala_Practice]

Hello. Malignant Narcissism.

[u/aeon_son → u/Mala_Practice]

The real question is… will he add in fake applause when he eventually uploads this on Trump TV?

[u/Motor_Somewhere7565]

They laughed at him last time. This time, they will not even acknowledge him. We used to be considered a world leader. Look at us now

[u/Backwardspellcaster → u/Motor_Somewhere7565]

Well, you voted in a pedophile village idiot into the highest position of the US.#

Fucking TWICE!

[u/Andrew1990M → u/Backwardspellcaster]

It’s worse than voting for him twice. 

They swung back left in the middle, saw a calm hand on the wheel, steadily righting an impossible inheritance, and decided, “no actually, we want the felon again, that was so funny.”

[u/su1try1obster → u/Andrew1990M]

Found out one of my friends voted for him because he thought he was funny. We are not friends anymore.

[u/Sunnygirl66 → u/su1try1obster]

“For the lolz” culture is a big part of why we’re in this mess. I am so tired of unserious stupid people.

[u/jahathebrn → u/Backwardspellcaster]

And the rest of the world gets to deal with the demented nonce

[u/mammalmaker]

He treats the delegates of the UN as if they are his idiot cult supporters.

What an utterly embarrassing look for the US.

[u/OldGaffer66]

Rule #1 of the founding principles of the UN is to prevent war BETWEEN countries. Trump has now violated that basic rule twice, three times if you include attacking speedboats in the Caribbean without showing any evidence of criminality, as well as threatening to annex Canada, Panama, Greenland, Gaza am I forgetting any?

He shouldn't even be allowed to speak at the UN. He should have been roundly booed and everyone should have walked out to leave him ranting at a dead mic, lol.

[u/Eddiebaby7]

We’re going to be paying the price for Trumps behavior, both domestically and internationally, for decades.

[u/morimando]

I’m disappointed that only Cuba and Iran walked out. This should have been unanimous

[u/Taikunman]

The absolute loss of American soft power in such a short time is staggering.

[u/cloudforested → u/Taikunman]

As a fellow Canadian, I can't imagine setting foot back there in the next ten years.

[u/No-Cup-8096]

MAGA voted for incompetent moron. This president has put American’s safety at risk because he is a greedy malignant narcissist.

[u/DirtyBurgerCommander]

The world really needs to start ignoring this man.

He wants to ban the press? Fine, keep reporting on all his bullshit but don’t give him a mic so we don’t have to listen to him.

He wants to speak at the U.N.? Fine, let him speak but ignore him and politely escort him off the stage when he’s done and move on to your next order of business.

He wants to start trade wars? Fine, get together and form your own trade deals ignoring the United States.

Him and his cult are fucking toddlers. You don’t indulge them and placate them. Let them scream themselves until they run out of energy.

[u/StoryNo9640 → u/DirtyBurgerCommander]

I said this back in 2016. The only way to defeat this guy is just fucking ignore him. Attention is truly the only thing he cares about.

[u/AquaticAlchemy → u/StoryNo9640]

The western world's just been trying to politely wait it out. The rest of the world has capitalised on it.

This is the weakest the US has maybe ever been.. The people in power are largely incompetent, corrupt, sell-outs. There has not been a better time to drag the US into war, than now. Theyre getting wrecked in the middle east and wasting resources. The conflict will escalate, Trump will claim whatever emergency powers. The US continues its downfall We already have Israel, Russia and China invading other countries.. thats going to escalate as the US gets weaker.

This is honestly such an insane timeline

[u/rhetoricalnonsense]

>And yet Trump chose to use the U.N. bully pulpit to present his version of reality

Here is my question: Why give him the opportunity to speak in the first place? The world should start treating us the way they treat Russia, NK, etc. If he wants to act like a dictator, treat him like one. I wish they had all waked out.

[u/PontyPandy → u/rhetoricalnonsense]

Everyone walking out would have been the correct play

[u/Themoonlightninja]

Can we remove him from the presidency? Somewhere out there a village is missing its idiot

[u/aDirtyMartini]

What a chucklehead. His "we're better than you are." speech is so childish. He is in way over his head. He's like some little brat sitting at the adult's table with everyone waiting for him to go to bed.

[u/Smulch]

Ironically, that's an improvement to one of his previous speech where they just laughed at him.

[u/invokin → u/Smulch]

I'm not sure it is. To laugh you have to be paying enough attention to find the ridiculous amusing. This time they're not even considering him worthy of their attention.

[u/itsjustme444444]

Every nation there should have walked out! Get up in mass and leave, that would show him how much respect other nations have for our country!

[u/SparkyMuffin]

Later in his speech, the majority of the Iranian delegation chose to walk out after Trump asked the audience if he should “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly” or “drive them into hell with no chance of survival.”

What an absolute fucking asshat.

[u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 → u/SparkyMuffin]

What the fuck?? This guy is a maniac

[u/Equivalent_Road5788 → u/SoggyBoysenberry7703]

He indeed is. Rumor has it that he wants to nuke them, and was prevented from doing so a few months ago.

[u/DefenstratedTwice]

Threatening to use nuclear weapons on another attendee wasn't a crowd pleaser?

[u/Monsignor76]

When he said “to the victor goes the spoils.” Dude. He straight up robbed an entire country of gold and billions of oil dollars. No one knows where it is. He used our own military to rob Venezuela. 

[u/im_dead_sirius]

Everyone should have walked out, and we should all be ashamed of our representatives.

[u/fighterpilottim]

For anyone who wants to read the article

“President Trump’s confrontational, campaign-style speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday was met with silence and rejection, and both the Cuban and Iranian delegations walked out while he attacked them.
The beginning of Trump’s speech was met with several awkward silences, as he clearly waited for applause after declaring that “America is back and … stronger today than ever before.” He received none.

Later in his speech, the majority of the Iranian delegation chose to walk out after Trump asked the audience if he should “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly” or “drive them into hell with no chance of survival.” After that, the Cuban delegation did the same—reacting to Trump’s claim that Cuba is an “absolutely failed state.”


These statements are extremely damaging to any hope of diplomacy, as Trump has been making threats of total annihilation of the Islamic Republic for nearly seven months. Trump is also absolving the U.S. of any wrongdoing, as many of Cuba’s past and present issues can be directly tied to the U.S. embargo and blockade of the country, which has cut it off from vital survival resources. And yet Trump chose to use the U.N. bully pulpit to present his version of reality—one that Cuba and Iran’s leadership chose to walk away from rather than entertain.”

[u/Swagamuffin67]

Wake me up when he's forced to atone for his crimes.

[u/Khorismatic_Lifter]

He actually unironically said "Dumocrats" in a speech to the UN. Like, brother this isn't a fucking truth social post.

[u/MnkyBzns]

Disappointed that Iran and Cuba were the only delegations to walk out

[u/rem_1984]

America needs to stand up and get rid of this guy, he’s going to get you all killed!!

[u/Froggyevening]

How did not every sane person there just walk out?

Anytime anyone of any consequence gives him attention, it validates the stupid shit he says and does.

[u/llamadogmama → u/Froggyevening]

I agree. What a message it would send if every single person up and left when he entered ANY space.

[u/zenerat]

Why did Trump even go doesn’t he hate the UN? Was it just so he could stand behind a lectern.

[u/MeasurementQueasy114 → u/zenerat]

Yup.

[u/Apprehensive_Idea758]

I’m watching clips of his speech and once again he’s making an ass out of himself which he does a really good job at.
Trump’s an idiot and the worst president in the entire history of the United States of America.

[u/Jerk182]

Donald Trump is insane and has no agenda other than staying rich, powerful, and out of prison. Everyone knows he’s corrupt and evil and no one wants to listen to his mindless jabbering. America needs to Dump Trump.

[u/DrTaco2020]

This guys so dense he’s going to stand in front of all the people he is actively fucking over and talking shit about and tell them how great he is???

[u/rhyming_mime]

I get the walk outs.

You are never going to get that time back and it could be better spent in any other way, like say getting dental surgery.

[u/SmaugTheMagnificent-]

Willie hears ya.
Willie don't care.

[u/Hades_Mercedes]

Embarrassingly declaring that Americans are going to call something the English language already has a name for, some other English name as though anybody could possibly give a good goddamn what Americans call things, threatening genocide...

Yeah nobody's sitting around listening to that fucking garbage.

[u/LVDirtlawyer]

His speech and his administration regularly stands for the exact opposite of the UN charter. For example:

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

[u/legit-posts_1]

We are never gonna recover our reputation from all this.

[u/Far_Balance_3117 → u/legit-posts_1]

Unless Democrats go scorched earth and prove this will never happen again.

Kinda doubting it though.

[u/IntronD]

Perfectly sane to threaten multiple members who are there for diplomatic dialogue and you threaten to send them to hell.

[u/Foolgazi]

The entire delegation should have walked out the minute he started walking to the podium.

[u/slupo]

We are watching the destabilization of our nation before our eyes and the Republicans are just watching it happen

[u/TWeedtheJetRodriguez → u/slupo]

Watching? They’ve been actively making it happen for the last 20+ years. What we’re experiencing is their success.

[u/kunaan]

"The beginning of Trump’s speech was met with several awkward silences, as he clearly waited for applause after declaring that “America is back and … stronger today than ever before.” He received none."

Love this energy.

[u/Ok_Science_2070]

After 10 years this whole Trump thing is really wearing thin and even they can sense it

Like can we just be done with this dude

[u/anotherlevl]

When MAGA sends Presidents to the U.N., they're not sending their best.

They're sending rapists.

They're sending murderers.

They're sending incontinent trash.

And some, I assume, are smart enough to know it.

[u/SnooCauliflowers2877]

I love living in a country that is simultaneously a threat to the entire world and a fucking joke

[u/doublethink_1984]

An imperialist Christo fascist deserves no respect

[u/DanielKeeneGA15]

I wish the US could do the same and just walk away from him.

[u/mittfh]

Before that, he "opened" his new helipad in the White House grounds, but courtesy of the press pool staying away¹ , coverage was left to the White House's own media team, who are so incompetent they didn't mic him up, so filmed it from a distance, where he was drowned out by the sound of the helicopters.

1. The Press Pool has five members: CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC. They have a rotating schedule of coverage of Presidential events and share the footage with the others, to avoid unnecessary duplication. Donald decided CNN was being insufficiently flattering of him, and together with MS NOW and Politico barred them from the Press Pool. The remaining members suddenly remembered that this banning infringed free speech (in reality: could set a dangerous precedent for them to be banned in future, maybe by him, maybe (in the case of Fox) by a Democratic President).

[u/eating_RACOONS]

Mind blowing that this guy still isnt impeached. 

[u/silly_little_jingle]

Don't you just love how his idiot fuckin fans will tell you how respected the US is now while our president is treated like a fucking joke on the international stage?

[u/celtekk_]

This guy is dangerous. Congress needs to invoke the 25th amendment immediately.

[u/usuallysortadrunk]

Do you think he ever walks in to this stuff with something prepared or is it all improv?

[u/Bullfrog_Paradox → u/usuallysortadrunk]

I feel like he always walks in with a speech very carefully crafted by his handlers, but then just goes off the rails anyway because he's a senile, narcissistic psychopath.

[u/darklordjames]

The only correct response anytime this clown walks into a room is that everybody should get up and leave.

[u/QuiGonColdGin]

This might be the most embarrassing thing in the history of the planet. How mentally defective are the people who voted to put this mental defective in the White House?

[u/Goldensunshine7]

My God. I feel so bad for our children. The psychopathic clown is formulating a horrible future for them and their children in this country. How many decades, generations will it take to repair the destruction the Republican Party has foisted upon us?

[u/Telefundo]

The beginning of Trump’s speech was met with several awkward silences, as he clearly waited for applause after declaring that “America is back and … stronger today than ever before.” He received none.

AHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!

Also...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[u/bnh1978]

Just one thing. "Super Intelligence"

I just cannot even.

[u/prozhack]

he’s literally so incredibly stupid it’s hurts the brain

[u/lunex]

When’s Prime Minister Mark Carney going to deliver the palate cleanser?

[u/Ok_Height3499]

Yet another day of complete embarrassment for the U.S. under Trump.

[u/Cancel_Culture_Club]

Dementia only gets worse with losing what little inhibition a person had. They can become physically violent, sexual in public, more accusatory and paranoid over things that never happened, fixate on different ideas or events, and also lash out more verbally. 

Are we starting to get to the point where Trump is just too volatile to be seen in public? If not, how far will he go before republicans can’t keep holding him together like any of this is normal? His father admittedly had dementia in the last 10 years of his life so he already has the propensity for it. Trump himself undeniably exhibits the symptoms for it as well except republicans continue to deny reality. 

[u/cityfarmwife77]

I wish every country had just walked out.

[u/Bright-Owl-3515]

Everyone should always walk out when hes on any stage.

[u/Dzp1111]

Narcissists seldom react to insults, rebukes, even being laughed at. All they hear is themselves regardless of the room’s atmosphere and they just keep talking and talking. They are utterly clueless as to how people react.

[u/Virtual_Isopod_7326]

Jail the pedophile. Most of his cabinet are also child molesters

[u/Be_Weird]

The guy does NOT know how to read a crowd, even after a gazillion rallies.

[u/beigechrist]

Embarrassing. Clownish. Stupid. And throughly dishonest.

[u/CaliIsReallyNice]

Kinda sounds like trump is a pathetic little bitch

[u/Ok_Emu1270]

Trump 2028(years in Prison)!

[u/Slight_Knight]

I can't watch a 15 second clip of him speaking much less an entire speech. I would have walked out too.

[u/Laugh_Track_Zak]

https://vote.gov/

[u/AltoidStrong]

Globally, people should laugh AT him publicly. Walk out of his speaches. He should be treated as the criminal and Villian he is.

Trump is a fraud, felon, rapist and traitor!

His next office should be a Nuremberg holding cell until his trail and punishment.

[u/OilPure5808]

I was hoping that some people would have laughed at him. Being laughed at when you are a narcissist is the chef's kiss.

[u/mysterious_jeffrey]

Total fucking moron. This bastard has wasted a decade of the entire world’s time.