What Trump Should Have Said at the UN General Assembly, ‘Mr. Secretary-General, Tear Down This Building’
My headline is a bit supercharged, one might say, but it is meant to echo Ronald Reagan’s famous words that led to the fall of the Soviet Union: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” The wall he was referring to, of course, was the Berlin Wall that kept the citizens of East Berlin captive inside as slaves of the communist system.
The United Nations is not a communist regime enslaving people, but one that is leading to the end of Western society as we know it, as Trump noted in his General Assembly speech on Tuesday.
The closest the president came to suggesting that the U.N. needs to be revamped and replaced — or eliminated — are these words excerpted from his speech on WhiteHouse.gov:
“Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, too often, it is actually creating new problems for us to solve… The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders… The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them.”
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From what I saw of his speech on TV, the audience was an uneasy, even disrespectful one, but Trump held his humor. When he uses humor to get his points across, Trump is often at his best.
For instance, the president’s visit was marked by an escalator that stopped as soon as he and wife Melania stepped onto it, and then by a teleprompter that didn’t work during his speech. At one point, even his mic quit working.
These “mishaps” (haha) led to these comments delivered in a rather humorous yet scathing way:
“I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations,” Trump said. “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, on the way up, stopped right in the middle. If the First Lady wasn’t in great shape, she would have fallen, but she’s in great shape. We’re both in good shape.”
I could go on and on with a litany of reasons that the UN, like its predecessor the League of Nations, has outlived any usefulness its founders envisioned. Its anti-Israeli history is one more example.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a visit and General Assembly speech a year ago, called UN actions “contemptible” and pointed out how many resolutions have been passed by the body condemning the Israeli state, even seeking to remove it from the UN.
He said: “The singling out of the one and only Jewish state continues to be a moral stain on the United Nations. It has made this once-respected institution contemptible in the eyes of decent people everywhere.”
What is left unsaid by both Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Trump is that the UN has overstayed its welcome on the world stage and should graciously leave at the nearest possible exit.
I don’t always agree with Trump’s words and actions, but I agree with his overall agenda: Clear away the political morass that has been created by liberal institutions and liberal politicians and return to what worked best, which was before the climate “greatest con job” and open borders — both promoted by the United Nations — created an Orwellian vision for the world.
(According to my buddy AI, an Orwellian future is “a dystopian society where totalitarian control is maintained through constant surveillance, widespread propaganda, and the suppression of individual freedom and objective truth.” You see, we don’t need humans in the future, just computers. They’re already taking over for me.)
