TRUMP COULD NOT FOOL THE LEADERS ATTENDING THE UN ASSEMBLY

…President Trump at the UN General Assembly

Trump just can’t help himself from taking credit for things he shouldn’t.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, based on President Trump’s address to the UN this week.

All of those important leaders in the general assembly room obviously understood about Trump’s offering of incorrect statements. 

After the president acknowledged the “world leaders, and distinguished delegates”  Trump went on in the beginning of his speech saying: “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” Upon saying this, to the audience of the UN General Assembly, which was largely composed of foreign leaders and ambassadors, many of them started to laugh.  It was a real rebuke to the US, and that was a first for a US president's address at the UN.

It is well known within the mainstream press and from all of the media’s Fact Checkers that were initially brought on, just to de-bunk many of the falsehoods that this president just can’t stop telling.  I think that as of this week, The Washington Post’s Fact Checkers have confirmed that Trump has passed the 5000 mark for the number of falsehoods that he has told since he took office.

It was obvious that those attending the UN‘s 73^rd General Assembly, they knew they would be hearing a pack of lies from the US president.

But as usual, Trump just can’t help himself from bragging about things that he takes credit for which were started long before he took office.

And it’s not just his bragging, he also increases or expands whatever has been achieved.

For instance, at the assembly Trump said $10 Trillion in new wealth had been added in the US since his election.  The official number is $6.9 Trllion in wealth.

Trump said the jobless claims are at the lowest ever.  Actually, they were lower in the 1950’s.

He said more people than ever are working.  Well, that’s true because there are more people than ever due to population growth and the unemployment has been going down since 2014, not since his election.

He said we’ve strengthened the border security and it has the fewest numbers of crosses, but the number of those even trying to cross the border is at its lowest number ever.

Last year the president called the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, “Little Rocket Man”, this year, even though nothing has changed in NK’s de-nuclearazation program, Trump is “Thanking Chairman Kim for his courage and for the steps he has taken, though much work remains to be done.”  Nothing has been done inside NK, except they stopped testing their bombs and missiles because they had finished the tests.

In the speech, Trump really went in for nationalism over globalism.  Per Trump: “America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control, and domination.

I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs, and traditions. The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship.

We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.”

“America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.  Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other, new forms of coercion and domination.”

“To unleash this incredible potential in our people, we must defend the foundations that make it all possible. Sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle where freedom has ever survived, democracy has ever endured, or peace has ever prospered. And so we must protect our sovereignty and our cherished independence above all.”

Moving on, the way that Trump talks about Iran, much of which is true, but because he pulled out of the nuclear deal and instituted more Iran sanctions, some are expecting Iran to now pull out of the deal and go back to developing their own nuclear war heads.  In addition, they are still developing their missiles to be ICBM’s, which could deliver a nuclear device to the US mainland.

Trump of course, just had to offer something on the trade deals.  Here is what he said:

“We believe that trade must be fair and reciprocal. The United States will not be taken advantage of any longer.  For decades, the United States opened its economy — the largest, by far, on Earth — with few conditions. We allowed foreign goods from all over the world to flow freely across our borders.

Yet, other countries did not grant us fair and reciprocal access to their markets in return. Even worse, some countries abused their openness to dump their products, subsidize their goods, target our industries, and manipulate their currencies to gain unfair advantage over our country. As a result, our trade deficit ballooned to nearly $800 billion a year.

For this reason, we are systematically renegotiating broken and bad trade deals.

Last month, we announced a groundbreaking US-Mexico trade agreement. And just yesterday, I stood with President Moon to announce the successful completion of the brand new US-Korea trade deal. And this is just the beginning.

Many nations in this hall will agree that the world trading system is in dire need of change. For example, countries were admitted to the World Trade Organization(WTO) that violate every single principle on which the organization is based. While the United States and many other nations play by the rules, these countries use government-run industrial planning and state-owned enterprises to rig the system in their favor. They engage in relentless product dumping, forced technology transfer, and the theft of intellectual property.

The United States lost over 3 million manufacturing jobs, nearly a quarter of all steel jobs, and 60,000 factories after China joined the WTO. And we have racked up $13 trillion in trade deficits over the last two decades.

But those days are over. We will no longer tolerate such abuse. We will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated, and our wealth to be plundered and transferred. America will never apologize for protecting its citizens.

The United States has just announced tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese-made goods for a total, so far, of $250 billion. I have great respect and affection for my friend, President Xi, but I have made clear our trade imbalance is just not acceptable. China’s market distortions and the way they deal cannot be tolerated.

As my administration has demonstrated, America will always act in our national interest.”

And all of this will be paid for by we Americans as the other nation respond to Trump’s tariffs with their own tariffs.  American workers can expect their monthly cost to increase by over 20% if the trade war continues.

I spoke before this body last year and warned that the UN Human Rights Council had become a grave embarrassment to this institution, shielding egregious human rights abusers while bashing America and its many friends.  Our Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, laid out a clear agenda for reform, but despite reported and repeated warnings, no action at all was taken.

So the United States took the only responsible course: We withdrew from the Human Rights Council, and we will not return until real reform is enacted.

The point is that Trump plans to pull out of anything that President Obama endorsed.  He wants America First to be America alone.  It was because of America helping both our allies as well as our WWII enemies, that we became the leader of the free world.

President Trump is trying to change the rules of what has kept the peace from another world war, to only helping those that he feels deserves our help.  And Vladimir Putin knows that as long as he compliments President Trump, he will get to do whatever he wants to do.

We are in for some serious problems if this maniac is still the US president for a full 4, or God forbid, 8 years.

Copyright G.Ater  2018