Your countries are going to hell: Trump’s UN General Assembly address blasts the UN, rails against open borders, and warns Europe is doomed
In a near-hour-long address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Donald Trump stunned world leaders with a blistering indictment of the UN and a stark warning about Europe’s future. He declared: "The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders," arguing that migration and "the failed experiment of open borders" threaten Western civilization. He praised his own immigration crackdown as a model. Trump warned that "Your countries are being ruined by uncontrolled immigration," linking this to the UN’s supposed support for migrants and framing it as a defining crisis of our era. He also directed his rhetoric at London, telling a global audience: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor and it's been so changed... Now they want to go to Sharia law but you're in a different country, you can't do that."
In This Article:
- The UN as 'funding an assault': Trump lays out the case against open borders
- Europe under siege: remarks on invasions, Sadiq Khan, and a clash with climate and energy
- I ended seven wars — and other claims about the UN and conflicts
- Energy, climate and a nationalist vision: Russia, sanctions and the future
The UN as 'funding an assault': Trump lays out the case against open borders
Trump argued that the UN should protect nations from invasions, not create or finance them. He claimed the organisation provides cash support to migrants, effectively backing illegal entry. He framed uncontrolled migration as the West’s defining issue of our time, a crisis that demands decisive action. The address repeatedly echoed the line: "The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders," a phrase he used to puncture a long-standing institution.
Europe under siege: remarks on invasions, Sadiq Khan, and a clash with climate and energy
Europe, he said, is "in serious trouble" and "invaded by a force of illegal aliens like no-one has ever seen before." He accused leaders of not taking action to reverse the trend. Turning to the UK, he criticized London’s mayor—"a terrible mayor"—and claimed, "Now they want to go to Sharia law but you're in a different country, you can't do that." He also joked about UN flaws—"a bad escalator" and a "bad teleprompter"—as he drifted off script. The speech also touched on broader tensions with the UN and the world stage, including a critique of how international bodies respond to crises.
I ended seven wars — and other claims about the UN and conflicts
Trump boasted that he brokered peace deals between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Rwanda and the DRC, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo, insisting he had “ended seven wars” and never received UN help to finalise any deal. He acknowledged Ukraine and Gaza as ongoing crises where his outreach yielded no results, and criticized Western leaders for recognizing a Palestinian state as a "reward" to Hamas and for failing to secure a lasting peace. On domestic security, he touted the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC, calling it a crime crackdown that made the city "totally safe again". He argued the UN should have offered assistance; instead he says it offered only "empty words."
Energy, climate and a nationalist vision: Russia, sanctions and the future
Trump attacked European and global energy choices, urging Western allies to cease all energy purchases from Russia and blaming those purchases for disunity. "It's embarrassing to them, and it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it. They have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise, we're all wasting a lot of time." He called climate change a "scam" and "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world," criticising wind farms and massive solar panels in Britain while pledging to protect American energy development and countryside: "We won't let this happen in America." He described North Sea oil as "so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company can go there" and said he had urged Sir Keir to drill more fossil fuels during a recent visit. He also noted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s warning that aid cuts by the United States were "wreaking havoc" around the world, and that Zelensky would be met again to discuss Ukraine.
