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Seven years ago this week, Donald Trump addressed the United Nations and began his remarks with an absurdity. “In less than two years,” the American president said, “my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” The boast, of course, was plainly false.
But just as important at the time was that everyone in attendance at the U.N. General Assembly recognized the rhetoric as silly — and some of the diplomats in the room started audibly laughing. The laughter caught the Republican off-guard and left Trump in a position he’d long hoped to avoid: the target of international ridicule.
Seven years later, the circumstances have changed in dramatic ways. In 2018, foreign officials laughed at Trump because they thought he was kidding. In 2025, they did not laugh, because they know he isn’t. NBC News reported:
President Donald Trump delivered a critical address to the United Nations General Assembly at a moment of heightened strain with U.S. allies over Palestinian statehood, trade and other flash points as his administration retreats from the global body. In remarks that called for United Nations reforms, Trump charged the institution with failing to act to solve global conflicts and immigration woes and derided its ‘empty words’ that ‘don’t solve war.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maddow-blog-bizarre-remarks-u-163153451.html
But just as important at the time was that everyone in attendance at the U.N. General Assembly recognized the rhetoric as silly — and some of the diplomats in the room started audibly laughing. The laughter caught the Republican off-guard and left Trump in a position he’d long hoped to avoid: the target of international ridicule.
Seven years later, the circumstances have changed in dramatic ways. In 2018, foreign officials laughed at Trump because they thought he was kidding. In 2025, they did not laugh, because they know he isn’t. NBC News reported:
President Donald Trump delivered a critical address to the United Nations General Assembly at a moment of heightened strain with U.S. allies over Palestinian statehood, trade and other flash points as his administration retreats from the global body. In remarks that called for United Nations reforms, Trump charged the institution with failing to act to solve global conflicts and immigration woes and derided its ‘empty words’ that ‘don’t solve war.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maddow-blog-bizarre-remarks-u-163153451.html
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