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US President Donald Trump took the stage astatine the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) connected Tuesday, delivering a sweeping code that touched connected overseas policy, immigration, clime alteration and more. He attacked friends and rivals alike, portion making arguable – and often factually inaccurate – assertions.
Here’s a look astatine immoderate of his cardinal comments and arguments – and however they clasp up against the facts.
Broken teleprompter
Trump kicked disconnected his code with a lighthearted remark astir a non-functional teleprompter, noting that helium did not caput that it was not working.
“I don’t caput making this code without a teleprompter, due to the fact that the teleprompter is not working,” Trump said.
“I consciousness precise blessed to beryllium up present with you, nevertheless. And that way, you talk much from the heart. I tin lone accidental that whoever’s operating this teleprompter is successful large trouble.”
But a UN authoritative said the teleprompter was being operated by the White House.
And aft Trump finished speaking, UNGA President Annalena Baerbock said: “As we are receiving queries, I would similar to guarantee you that, don’t worry, the UN teleprompters are moving perfectly.”
Baerbock was Germany’s overseas curate until earlier this year.
US President Donald Trump speaks astatine the UNGA [Timonthy A. Clary/AFP]‘You’re destroying your countries’
Trump said that nations that were much welcoming of immigrants than the US nether him were “destroying” their countries.
“They’re being destroyed. Europe is successful superior trouble. They’ve been invaded by a unit of amerciable aliens similar nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe.”
Trump past referred to his administration’s policies towards migrants and asylum seekers.
“You person to extremity it present – I tin archer you. I’m truly bully astatine this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”
“Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border, and removing amerciable aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming,” helium said.
Earlier successful his speech, helium besides said that successful “four months successful a row, the fig of amerciable aliens admitted and entering our state has been zero”.
Trump’s claims astir undocumented migrants – immoderate of whom transverse the borderline seeking asylum – whom helium calls “illegal”, are an exaggeration.
According to US Customs and Border Protection, nationwide apprehensions astatine borderline crossings dropped from astir 60,600 successful August 2024 to astir 8,200 successful July 2025. This is 1 of the lowest monthly totals successful decades, but it is not adjacent to zero.
Pressure connected Russia: ‘Europe has to measurement it up’
Trump criticised Washington’s NATO allies for continuing to bargain Russian energy, portion urging Europe to measurement up unit connected Moscow implicit its warfare connected Ukraine.
“China and India are the superior funders of the ongoing warfare by continuing to acquisition Russian oil, but inexcusably, adjacent NATO countries person not chopped disconnected overmuch Russian vigor and Russian vigor products,” Trump said.
As Al Jazeera reported successful August, aft the US doubled its 25 percent tariffs connected Indian imports to 50 percent arsenic punishment for New Delhi’s continued lipid purchases from Russia, the European Union really trades adjacent much with Moscow.
The EU’s commercialized with Russia present – astatine 67.5 cardinal euros ($77.9bn) successful 2024 – is astir a 4th of what it was successful 2021, earlier Russia’s full-fledged warfare connected Ukraine began (257.5 cardinal euros ($297.4bn). But this is inactive much than India’s full commercialized with Russia successful 2024-25, which was worth $68.7bn.
And Europe really accrued its imports of Russian LNG by 9 percent successful 2024, compared with the twelvemonth before.
Meanwhile, the US besides imports a scope of chemicals from Russia. Total Russia-US commercialized successful 2024 stood astatine $5.2bn, according to the US Trade Representative’s Office, though the numbers are down importantly from 2021, erstwhile their commercialized successful goods stood astatine $36bn.
Trump warned that the US is prepared to enforce a caller circular of tariffs connected Russia if nary statement is reached to extremity the war.
“For those tariffs to beryllium effective, European nations – each of you are gathered present close present – would person to articulation america successful adopting the nonstop aforesaid measures,” Trump said.
“I mean, you’re overmuch person to this. See, we person an water successful between. You’re close there, and Europe has to measurement it up. They can’t beryllium doing what they’re doing,” helium added.
‘The top con occupation ever’
Trump besides returned to his longstanding disapproval of clime science.
“If you look backmost years ago, successful the 1920s and the 1930s, they said planetary cooling volition termination the world,” Trump said.
“Then they said planetary warming volition termination the world, but past it started getting cooler. So now, they conscionable telephone it clime alteration due to the fact that that way, they can’t miss. Climate alteration – due to the fact that if it goes higher oregon lower, immoderate the hellhole happens, there’s clime change.”
“It’s the top con occupation ever perpetrated connected the world, successful my opinion. Climate change, nary substance what happens, you’re progressive successful that. No much planetary warming, nary much planetary cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and galore others, often for atrocious reasons, were wrong.”
Trump astatine UNGA: Climate change— it's the top con-job ever perpetrated connected the world. pic.twitter.com/0vOknp9M2O
— Mintel World (@mintelworld) September 23, 2025
“If you don’t get distant from this greenish scam, your state is going to fail, and I’m truly bully astatine predicting things,” helium added.
His remarks came arsenic the UN urged countries to contiguous their updated decarbonisation targets astatine the UNGA, aiming to revive momentum successful the planetary combat against clime change.
Scientific grounds – including that touted by parts of Trump’s ain medication – shows that planetary warming, on with its impacts connected rising temperatures, shifting oceans, utmost upwind and wildfires, is unfolding faster than antecedently expected.
Trump delivers remarks to the UNGA, September 23, 2025 [Timothy A Clary/AFP]‘I ended 7 wars’
Trump formed himself arsenic a planetary peacemaker.
“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,” Trump said.
“There’s ne'er been thing similar that. Very honoured to person done it. It’s excessively atrocious that I had to bash these things alternatively of the United Nations doing them,” helium said.
“And sadly, successful each cases, the United Nations did not adjacent effort to assistance successful immoderate of them… All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, connected the mode up, stopped close successful the middle.”
Though Trump has taken recognition for helping to intermission the conflicts helium listed, immoderate countries person disputed his claims. India, successful particular, has publicly, and repeatedly, insisted that its May clash with Pakistan ended done bilateral conversations betwixt the militaries of the South Asian neighbours, not immoderate US mediation.
Still, Trump’s supporters person dubbed him the “peace president” and argued that helium deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
The UN has not been determination for america arsenic a country. For months, @POTUS brokered bid successful large satellite conflicts without immoderate assistance being offered to him.
The UN has tremendous potential, but it is not surviving up to it. Strongly worded letters are conscionable bare words. Actions extremity wars. pic.twitter.com/fhvLmJceQK
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) September 23, 2025
On Iran onslaught and bid push
Trump pointed to the US onslaught connected Iran’s atomic sites arsenic impervious of US strength, saying it helped him broker an extremity to the Israel-Iran subject clashes successful June.
“I extended a pledge of afloat practice successful speech for a suspension of Iran’s atomic programme,” Trump said.
“The regime’s reply was to proceed their changeless threats to their neighbours and US interests passim the region.”
“And 3 months agone successful Operation Midnight Hammer, 7 American B-2 bombers dropped the fourteen 30,000-pound-each (13,600kg) bombs connected Iran’s cardinal atomic facility, wholly obliterating everything,” Trump said.
“We hatred to usage them, but we did thing that for 22 years radical wanted to do. With Iran’s atomic enrichment capableness demolished, I instantly brokered an extremity to the 12-day war, arsenic it’s called, betwixt Israel and Iran, with some sides agreeing to fight… nary longer,” helium added.
At that time, Mehdi Mohammadi, an advisor to the president of the Iranian parliament, said that the US attack was not astonishing and that nary irreversible harm was sustained during the strikes. He added that authorities had evacuated each 3 atomic sites that were bombed, successful advance.
Trump says recognising Palestinian authorities ‘rewards Hamas’
Trump condemned mounting efforts to recognise a Palestinian state, accusing Hamas of blocking bid and demanding the merchandise of captives being held successful Gaza.
Just this week, Australia, Andorra, Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Portugal and the United Kingdom person recognised the authorities of Palestine.
“Hamas has repeatedly rejected tenable offers to marque peace,” Trump said.
“We can’t hide October 7th, tin we?,” helium asked, referring to the 2023 onslaught by Hamas connected confederate Israel, aft which Israel launched a brutal warfare connected the Gaza Strip.
“Now, arsenic if to promote continued conflict, immoderate of this assemblage is seeking to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state. The rewards would beryllium excessively large for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities,” Trump added.
“This could person been solved truthful agelong ago. But alternatively of giving successful to Hamas’s ransom demands, those who privation bid should beryllium agreed with 1 message: Release the hostages now,” helium added.
Hamas connected Tuesday refuted immoderate responsibility for the nonaccomplishment to scope a woody to extremity the warfare successful Gaza. “We person ne'er been an obstacle to reaching an agreement,” it said successful a statement.
“The US administration, the mediators and the satellite cognize that Netanyahu is the sole obstructionist successful each attempts to scope an agreement,” it added, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hamas has said it is acceptable for a truce that volition pb to the merchandise of captives and Palestinian prisoners successful Israeli jails, awe good arsenic a withdrawal of the Israeli service from Gaza, but Netanyahu has refused to perpetrate to a afloat withdrawal.
This month, Israel launched a crushed penetration to inhabit Gaza City, sidesplitting hundreds of Palestinians and displacing tens of thousands. In all, Israel’s warfare connected Gaza since October 2023 has killed much than 60,000 Palestinians, and its restrictions connected the introduction of nutrient and assistance into the Palestinian territory person spawned a man-made famine.
On cause traffickers: ‘We volition stroke you retired of existence’
Trump defended the arguable US subject strikes connected boats carrying what helium alleges are Venezuelan cause traffickers, which person killed astatine slightest 17 people.
“Let’s enactment it this way: People don’t similar taking large loads of drugs successful boats immoderate more,” Trump said.
“There aren’t excessively galore boats that are travelling connected the seas by Venezuela. They thin not to privation to question precise rapidly immoderate more. And we’ve virtually stopped drugs coming into our state by sea. We telephone them the h2o drugs,” helium added.
Experts have formed doubt connected the legality of US attacks connected overseas boats successful planetary waters. Data from some the UN and the US itself suggest that Venezuela is not a large root of cocaine coming successful the US, arsenic Trump has claimed.
Trump continued: “I’ve besides designated aggregate savage cause cartels arsenic overseas violent organisations, on with 2 bloodthirsty transnational gangs, astir apt the worst gangs anyplace successful the world, MS13 and Tren de Aragua.”
“They’re the enemies of each humanity. And for this reason, we’ve precocious begun utilizing the ultimate powerfulness of the United States subject to destruct Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by [President] Nicolas Maduro.”
The Trump medication has not provided grounds linking Maduro to Tren de Aragua oregon immoderate different cause cartel, and the Venezuelan person has denied the allegations. The US quality assemblage has besides contradicted claims of ties betwixt Venezuela’s authorities and the gang.
[Angela Weiss/AFP]“We person nary choice; can’t fto it happen. They’re destroying – I judge we mislaid 300,000 radical past twelvemonth to drugs – 300,000 – fentanyl and different drugs. Each vessel that we descend carries drugs that would termination much than 25,000 Americans. We volition not fto that happen,” Trump said.
In reality, astir fentanyl successful the US is trafficked done Mexico [PDF], according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
And according to the US Office connected Drugs and Crime, coca cultivation, the ground of cocaine production, is concentrated successful Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, with US-bound trafficking routes moving mostly done Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, not Venezuela.
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