Prof. Cox Richardson summarizes yesterday's speech well. The comment she received from a reporter present relates how a senior diplomat sums up the event the observers heard.
"But it was foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor who captured the larger story of Trump’s speech.
“A senior foreign diplomat posted at the U.N. texts me,” Tharoor wrote, “‘This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?’”
John Gilmartin
Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
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Summary
At the UN’s 80th anniversary General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres opened with a call to uphold peace, law, human dignity, and climate justice, drawing on his own youth under Portuguese dictatorship to stress that real power comes from people. In stark contrast, Donald Trump delivered a rambling, grievance-filled speech, mixing boasts about ending wars and building “the greatest economy,” with attacks on immigration, renewable energy, and the United Nations itself. His remarks were widely criticized as narcissistic and destructive to diplomacy, with foreign observers calling them embarrassing.
Quotes
Guterres: “Eighty years on, we confront again the question our founders faced—only more urgent, more intertwined, more unforgiving: What kind of world do we choose to build together?”
Guterres: “Real power resides from people, from our shared resolve to uphold dignity, to defend equality, to believe—fiercely—in our common humanity.”
Trump: “In my first term, I built the greatest economy in the history of the world… and I’m doing the same thing again, but this time it’s actually much bigger and even better.”
Trump: “Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe, and nobody’s doing anything to change it… Your countries are going to hell.”
Ishaan Tharoor quoting a diplomat: “This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?”
Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
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Summary
At the UN’s 80th anniversary General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres opened with a call to uphold peace, law, human dignity, and climate justice, drawing on his own youth under Portuguese dictatorship to stress that real power comes from people. In stark contrast, Donald Trump delivered a rambling, grievance-filled speech, mixing boasts about ending wars and building “the greatest economy,” with attacks on immigration, renewable energy, and the United Nations itself. His remarks were widely criticized as narcissistic and destructive to diplomacy, with foreign observers calling them embarrassing.
Quotes
Guterres: “Eighty years on, we confront again the question our founders faced—only more urgent, more intertwined, more unforgiving: What kind of world do we choose to build together?”
Guterres: “Real power resides from people, from our shared resolve to uphold dignity, to defend equality, to believe—fiercely—in our common humanity.”
Trump: “In my first term, I built the greatest economy in the history of the world… and I’m doing the same thing again, but this time it’s actually much bigger and even better.”
Trump: “Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe, and nobody’s doing anything to change it… Your countries are going to hell.”
Ishaan Tharoor quoting a diplomat: “This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?”
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