Since US President Donald Trump’s first address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, the champion of an “America First” foreign policy has by most accounts taken control of a decision-making process once driven by members of the Washington establishment.
On Tuesday, speaking again to world leaders at the UN, Trump lambasted the “so-called experts who have been proven wrong over the years, time and time again.”
Sticking to a script that betrayed either a lack of awareness or an indifference to the audience at hand, Trump launched immediately into a characteristically hyperbolic exultation of his achievements since taking office, which was met with audible laughter.
“In less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” he touted, adding in response to chuckles from world leaders: “Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay.”
Boasting of a strong stock market, progress towards erecting a border wall and increasing border security as well as a massive increase in military spending, Trump showered the hall with the same talking points that garner loud applause from his political base at campaign rallies.
“Our military will soon be more powerful than it has ever been before… In other words: our country will be a stronger, safer and a richer country than it was when I assumed office.”
“We are standing up for America and for the American people. And we are also standing up for the world.”
Cutting foreign aid
Standing up for the world, Trump insisted, would in large part require retreating from it, so that other “countries could step up to provide more funding to protect their interests.
“The United States is the world’s largest giver in the world – by far – of foreign aid. But few give anything to us,” he lamented. “Moving forward, we are only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us and, frankly, are our friends.”
“The United States is committed to making the United Nations more effective and accountable,” Trump promised, adding that, to this end, “the United States will not pay more than 25% of the UN peacekeeping budget.”
Renegotiating trade agreements
In addition to getting other countries to commit more money for security, the US president stressed that his administration would continue its fight against trade abuses, pointing a finger at China.
“The United States opened our economy… yet other countries did not grant us fair and reciprocal access,” he claimed, continuing that trade deficits are the product of unfair trade practices.
Countries admitted to the World Trade Organization according to the speech, have since violated “every single principle” on which it is based.
“We have racked up $13 trillion in trade deficits over the last two decades, but those days are over. We will no longer tolerate such abuse, we will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated and our wealth to be plundered and transferred.”
Despite having “great affection for Chinese President Xi Jinping,” Trump said that America’s trade imbalance with China is “not acceptable… China’s market distortions and the way they deal cannot be tolerated.”
Trump praised what he has said are historic achievements in a renegotiated trade deal with South Korea, which was signed yesterday, and a partial agreement on trade with Mexico, announced last month.
Patriotism over globalism
Trump criticized the International Criminal Court for claiming near-universal jurisdiction, saying that the US “will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected unaccountable global bureaucracy.”
“We reject the ideology of globalism and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.” Responsible nations, he added, “must defend against threats to sovereignty.”
In conclusion, Trump said sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle that has ensured peace and democracy and that only through a protection of this principle will countries find ways to cooperate.
“So together, let us choose a future of patriotism, prosperity, and pride,” the President said, laying out a vision that stood in stark contrast to generations of presidential administrations’ use of the platform to advocate the spread of universal, liberal democratic values across the globe.
Trump is right in that the current US trade deficits are unsustainable. The world should note that US is effectively bankrupt and there is no sense in supplying further its good and services to it. Trade diversification away from US is the key and only sensible thing to pursue.
US needs to devalue the U$, reduce its military expenditure and stop it hegemonic policies to mitigate its current implosion.
The PRESIDENCY of a leader——–Donald John Trump!!
While the ccp buys the US’s worthless paper.
Now tell me who is dumb ?
UN? So 20th century! It’s 73 already, it should retire.
No wonder the audience laughed. What a joke. The US is the victim always giving hand outs while being beaten up by the rest of the world. The hand outs the US do give is to pay for vassal’s loyalty.
美国资本利益和国家利益开始出现重大分歧。
今后几年有好戏看了。
Hold it until November…
You are right. And Trump is 72.
Let them laugh. The eagle soars while the sparrows sqauwk. Nationalism is back on the world stage, patriotism and loyalty to one’s own as opposed to stale and filthy globalism. No more wars, no more interventions. Qual regio, qual religio.
This is a declaration of War to the Soros and EU-SSR establishment. It’s about time.
Trumps speech was at a level of an 8th grader compare to other world leaders who spoke at Phd level. This guy has truely become the laughing stock of the world. From his self appreciation to the idiotic speech about the Iran threat (Read Bibi’s wet dream) was full of stomach churning garbage that you would expect from some banana republic and not certainly from the US. This Neocon infested regime has only one focus and thats Iran and perhaps the distant second is the economic shake up (I won’t call it trade war as he will back off soon) with China. Sometimes in an empire, you need Bafoons and incompetence to bring your empire down as in the case of Caligula in Rome. These are the last decades of this empire for sure when you see world leader laughing at you or mock you with disdain.
Yashad Rizvi
Hi! Big sausage idiot! China has stopped buying treasuries for close to three years now and in fact has reduced its treasuries holdings. You must have missed it while watching your wife entertaining others for 0.5 rmb each time.
Are you on crack sniffing glue? if you didn’t get the gist of his speech or didn’t pay attention to Pompeo/Bolton (doggy and pony) show few blocks down…it is about stirring the pot in Iran for the benefit of Israel….This is not about America first…it has always been for the benefit of Israel at the expense of America…If you remove the Red color on your cap you will see the Blue Star of David.
I doubt trump know what he is talking about. He wanted other nations to be more patriotic, and he expected all those nations that put their national interest abover everything to work well together?
Obama mocked him in 2012… Only five years before he handed him the White House…
Actually he said someting on the youtube after the phrase “In less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” then they laughed. I couldn’t make out what he said though, he mumbled it.
Now the whole world will see the true color of US and be prepared for the worse to come.
The " hand outs ", the US gives is called "phantom aid", which in reality is hand out to herself. Israel is the only country that receives, what can truly be called selfless hand out.
Intrepretation, it was a warning. We are going to begin kicking the rest of the worlds ass, stealing their resources and bringing down their governments more efficiently and effectively. This was the last Unipolar speech. More Wars are coming. It won’t stop until someone starts bombing us.
Despite its condescending tone, the article is right that Trump has taken foreign policy away from the failed (and unelected) Washington "elite" (who mostly represent themselves and some large industries, to the detriment of the average American). In this respect, he is representing the voters that voted for him. Crazy idea, huh?
Ken Nguyen stopped, reduced… not got rid of all.
Sorry there are no real men to be found in China, even for 0.5RMB which you wumaos get paid.
Does the sight of so many chinese ladies going out with gweilos offend you ? Small sausage !
The Tibetans & Uighurs can only hope (to be rid of the CCP)
Yup stop being the world’s policeman and let them sort things out for themselves (ie all go to sh1t). Then the left will be begging for US intervention.
No, so long and thanks for all the fish, oil, etc.
Yashad Rizvi’s big mouth is the result of years working with the African American’s big sausage.
Yashad Rizvi, Tibetans and Uighurs are begging China sending them to Malaysia and Australia, they don’t like India very much because it is too dirty and smelly. China should oblige their wishes with armed escort to make sure the Tibetans and Uighurs enter Malaysia and Australia safely.
Selfish patriotism for America only, but regime change for others. All bow to the big satanic hitman that worships at the Synagogue of the Devil in Jerusalem
Yashad Rizvi
Your wife complained that you pimp for her and all the 0.5rmb but she enjoy entertaining real men rather than you with the large flabby sausage. LOL!.
He said that the US had rendered amazing assistance to Puerto Rico which is still trying to restore electricity to many of its citizens more than a year after hurricane Maria. Compare this to Hong Kong’s one-day recovery from taiphoon Mangkhut.
Hahhahaa…
Hehhehehhe….
Agreed. Trump sounded like a teenager bragging his accomplishments, which only exist in his head.
UN based on ‘patriotism’……hhhmmm…..
From now on every country sends its best martial artists to duke it out in every UN meetings?
Yashad Rizvi For once I agree with you, Limp Sausage. Close all 5000+ military bases around the world and bring home the boys and girls to work in the NEW garment and shoe factories which Trump will bring back from China! Yeeee Hawww…
Ken Nguyen Joe Wrong. Don’t worry, I’m sure Winnie Xi and the CCP have set aside girlfliends for you wumaos.
John Van Valin Chinese have their own Chinese paper, they don’t need half cooked or what Trump once said, fake news from foreign media.
Voa, radio free Asia have evil intensions to split the people it aim at in foreign country, these are small people in Chinese vocabulary.
all of this is pure bs ,its just cover for us warmongering .next is iran and maybe yet syria if they use the new s300s against israeli jets attacking syrian/iranian bases. trump is trying to isolate china from russia as well.knowing the two could destroy the us .
i live in North America and am well acquainted with the sort of people who vote for Trump. The writer here describes them as "hard working". There is nothing hard working about these characters compared to others in North America. They tend to be people resentful of immigrants getting ahead of them by diligent hard work. I go to a loca library here often and find it filled with immigrants and their children. Not so much with native locals. That tells us a lot.
If you write in gibberish, no one responds. Try an international language.
WM Wong Regime change for the uighurs ?
Joe Wong So they prefer Aus, does that mean China is not perfect ?
Haav Bline Wow a wumao agrees with me, but you wont get your 0.5RMB for that post !
Yeah, like we really beleive you, wumao.
Ah…. breakingwindrumpler… the fellow who supported Umno until it was too later.
Relevence deprevation.