Trump tells world leaders countries are ‘going to hell’

US President Donald Trump argued for little levels of planetary migration and urged a turn distant from clime alteration policies successful a combative, wide-ranging speech to the UN General Assembly that leveled scathing disapproval of world leaders.

The 56-minute speech was a rebuke to the world assemblage and a instrumentality to signifier for Trump, who routinely bashed the UN during his archetypal term arsenic president.

Leaders gave him polite applause when helium exited the chamber.

He rejected moves by allies to endorse a Palestinian state amid Israel’s latest Gaza violative and urged European nations to follow the aforesaid acceptable of economical measures helium is proposing against Russia to unit an extremity to the war successful Ukraine.

Much of his speech was dominated by two of his biggest grievances: migration and clime change.

Trump offered his US migration crackdown arsenic a lawsuit study for what different world leaders should bash to curb wide migration that helium says is altering the cloth of nations.

Human rights advocates reason the migrants are seeking amended lives.

“I’m truly bully astatine this stuff,” Trump said.

“Your countries are going to hell.”

Trump, who met past week with Britain’s environmentally-conscious King Charles astatine Windsor Castle, called clime alteration a “con job” and urged a instrumentality to a greater reliance connected fossil fuels.

Scientists accidental clime alteration caused by humans is real.

“Immigration and their suicidal vigor ideas will beryllium the decease of Western Europe,” Trump said.

Trump’s medication plans to telephone for sharply narrowing the close to asylum astatine the United Nations aboriginal this month, Reuters reported past week, arsenic it seeks to undo the post-World War Two model astir humanitarian protection.

Trump sprinkled into his speech a litany of mendacious and misleading statements, such arsenic that London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to enforce “sharia law” connected London and that “inflation has been defeated” successful the United States six days aft the Federal Reserve said ostentation has gone up.

European powers person spent months trying to stabilise their narration with the US person with a absorption connected winning US support to extremity the war successful Ukraine. At a NATO summit successful June, Trump and European leaders lavished each different with praise.

But successful Tuesday’s speech, Trump mocked NATO allies for not shutting down purchases of Russian lipid and said helium would enforce strong economical measures against Moscow.

“They’re backing the war against themselves. Who the hellhole ever heard of that one? In the lawsuit that Russia is not acceptable to marque a woody to extremity the war, then the United States is afloat prepared to enforce a very strong circular of almighty tariffs,” helium said.

“But for those tariffs to beryllium effective, European nations, each of you are gathered present close now, would person to articulation us successful adopting the nonstop aforesaid measures.”

Trump aboriginal held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who pressed for much US support to defy Russian advances. Trump, asked by reporters if NATO countries should sprout down Russian craft if they participate their airspace, said, “Yes, I do.”

On the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Trump rejected efforts by world leaders to clasp a Palestinian state, a determination that faces fierce absorption from Israel.

“The rewards would beryllium too large for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities,” helium said, repeating his telephone for the instrumentality of hostages taken by the Palestinian militant group.

Trump, who has formed himself arsenic a peacemaker successful a bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize, complained that the United Nations did not support his efforts to extremity conflicts astir the world.

He added to his complaints with idiosyncratic grievances astir the UN infrastructure, saying helium and archetypal woman Melania Trump were concisely marooned connected a malfunctioning UN escalator and that his teleprompter was not initially working.

“These are the two things I got from the United Nations – a atrocious escalator and a atrocious teleprompter,” Trump said, noting that Melania Trump astir fell when the escalator stopped abruptly.

Source: AAP