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In his archetypal gathering with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres aft opening his 2nd word arsenic U.S. President successful January, Donald Trump connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025) said, “Our state is down the United Nations 100%.”
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After lashing retired astatine the UN successful his code to the General Assembly, Mr. Trump said helium supports the satellite organisation adjacent though helium whitethorn disagree with it astatine times.
“I deliberation the imaginable of the United Nations is incredible, truly incredible. It tin bash truthful much. So I'm down it. I whitethorn disagree with it sometimes, but I americium truthful down it, due to the fact that I deliberation that the imaginable for bid with this instauration is truthful great,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Guterres.
“Thank you precise much. It's ever an honour to beryllium here. We've done this before, and this was a small much breathtaking due to the fact that of the escalator and the teleprompter. These things happen,” Mr. Trump said successful his bilateral gathering with Mr. Guterres.
Earlier, Mr. Trump addressed satellite leaders from the iconic UNGA podium astatine the General Debate of the 80th high-level league of the UN General Assembly, his archetypal code astatine the UN successful the 2nd word of his presidency.
Mr. Trump, who had begun his code by criticising that the teleprompter astatine the UNGA hallway was not working, said, “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that connected the mode up, stopped close successful the middle. If the First Lady wasn't successful large shape, she would person fallen, but she's successful large shape. We're some successful bully shape,” Mr. Trump said amid laughter from the satellite leaders.
“And past a teleprompter that didn't work. These are the 2 things I got from the United Nations, a atrocious escalator and a atrocious teleprompter. Thank you precise much,” Mr. Trump said.
The UN chief, successful his opening remarks up of the bilateral gathering with Trump, said the United States was perfectly indispensable successful the founding of the organisation.
“I judge determination are galore areas wherever we tin cooperate successful a affirmative way, and I would deliberation that the astir important is peace. You person selected bid arsenic a cardinal nonsubjective of your mandate,” Mr. Guterres said to Mr. Trump, to which the U.S. President responded “true”.
Mr. Guterres said that Mr. Trump has been going “north and south, eastbound and west, successful each imaginable situations, getting oregon trying to get ceasefires, alleviating tensions, making bid agreements”.
“And I privation to reassure you that the United Nations, from maine to our teams connected the ground, to our mission, we are wholly astatine your disposal to beryllium capable to enactment unneurotic for conscionable bid successful the world,” helium added.
The UN main besides expressed gratitude to the U.S. for its large governmental and fiscal support.
“And 1 happening is, for me, highly important is that the suffering, the horrible suffering, of millions of radical tin beryllium stopped,” Mr. Guterres said.
In his UNGA address, Trump claimed that helium had stopped 7 wars successful his 2nd word successful the White House, including the 1 betwixt India and Pakistan, and blasted the UN for its nonaccomplishment to connection immoderate assistance successful ending these raging conflicts.
“In a play of conscionable 7 months, I person ended 7 'unendable' wars. They said they were 'unendable, you are ne'er going to get them solved’,” Trump said, adding that immoderate of the wars helium helped extremity were going connected for decades.
“I ended 7 wars, and successful each cases they were raging, with countless thousands of radical being killed. This includes Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda - a vicious, convulsive warfare that was, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia and Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Mr. Trump said.
“No president oregon premier minister, and for that matter, nary different state has ever done thing adjacent to that. And I did it successful conscionable 7 months. It's ne'er happened before,” Mr. Trump said.
“It's excessively atrocious that I had to bash these things alternatively of the United Nations doing them. And sadly, successful each cases, the United Nations did not adjacent effort to assistance successful immoderate of them,” the U.S. President said.
In his speech, Mr. Trump added that helium didn’t deliberation astir it astatine the clip due to the fact that helium was “too busy” moving to prevention millions of lives and stopping these wars.
“But aboriginal I realised that the United Nations wasn't determination for us. They weren't there.” “That being the case, what is the intent of the United Nations? The UN has specified tremendous potential. I've ever said it, it has specified tremendous, tremendous potential, but it's not adjacent coming adjacent to surviving up to that imaginable for the astir part,” Mr. Trump said.
“At slightest for now, each they look to bash is constitute a truly powerfully worded missive and past ne'er travel that missive up. It's bare words, and bare words don't lick war. The lone happening that solves warfare and wars is action,” helium added.
