Threats, boasts, walkouts: the key takeaways from Trump’s U.N. speech
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Good morning. President Trump takes center stage at the United Nations General Assembly.
While others have talked of courage. America has shown it. While others have promised strength. I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world.
The Wall Street Journal dissects the speech while Reuters looks ahead to Trump sit-down with Chinese President Xi Jinping. And the song that just claimed a new billboard record. It's Wednesday, September twenty third. I'm Givian Resnik. This is Apple News Today.
The world's leaders gathered in New York yesterday to hear President Trump renew his threats against Iran.
I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made? With Iran. That lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it Ever was before. maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate? The Islamic Republic. And do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy. people and countries again. Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope? Of future greatness or generations.
He's made similar warnings before, only to pivot back to diplomacy. And in fact, shortly after the speech, Trump suggested that US officials had conducted, quote, very good discussions with the Iranian delegation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Trump was open to meeting with Iran's president while he was there. Trump also used his speech to defend the necessity of the Iran war.
I have no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day. I do not believe in letting problems fester. They only become harder to solve. So while others have talked I have acted. While others have spoken of peace I have made peace while others have ignored threats. I have confronted them.
National Security Reporter Alex Ward covered the address for the Wall Street Journal.
If you wanted to get a main message across, it was I am the president of peace. I am the man who ended eight wars. I am a man who believes in diplomacy. And at the same time threatened to annihilate Iran and basically also said, like, I'm not afraid to wield American power as I see fit, because I have the greatest military in the history of the world.
Negotiations with Iran are currently at an impasse. Military strikes have calmed, but the US is attempting to squeeze the Iranian economy through oil blockades and sanctions, while Iran has restricted tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday, Trump suggested peace would not come until after the midterms, and said that he didn't give any thought to the upcoming elections when it came to the war. The president's approval rating on foreign policy issues hit its lowest point on record this month, according to a new poll from CNN released on Tuesday.
What did President Trump say in his UN General Assembly speech about Iran?
And Ward said the speech was ultimately a pitch to domestic audiences.
You could also pluck this speech out and basically count it as the Republican foreign policy address ahead of the midterm elections. Which is look at America, look how strong it is, look at the military, look what it can do. Yes, the wars are going a certain way, but I, Trump, took a tough decision to go after Iran when everyone else was too scared to do it. I mean, this is the foreign policy platform message. Will those on the ballot choose it? Will they back him?
The speech went beyond Iran. In fact, it spanned across continents. Trump praised a deal signed this week to increase US military presence in Greenland. He signaled that the US deserved to gain from Venezuelan oil, saying that quote to the victor belong the spoils, and he said his administration was seeking fundamental change in Cuba.
The communist regime is under great pressure. The biggest pressure they've ever been under. It's an absolutely failed State. It's failing like never before, and it will fall.
Around that point, the Cuban delegation walked out. Trump wasn't the only leader at the podium yesterday. Brazil's president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva opened the day with indirect criticism of the US, emphasizing the right to self-determination of the Venezuelan people.
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