FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump’s first speech to the United Nations was met with gasps as he threatened to hurt Iran and Venezuela, and then nicknamed North Korea’s leader ‘Rocket Man.’ Trump’s second address elicited outright laughter in the chamber hall when he bragged his administration had accomplished more in two years than ‘almost any administration.’ Now, as Trump delivers his third speech to the United Nations on Tuesday [9-24-19], he is expected to espouse a familiar ‘America First’ theme that was once shocking to the U.N. audience — but now just leaves other foreign leaders searching for solutions without the United States…Trump likes to go it alone. That goes against the very reason the United Nations was created — to solve problems together. Still, whatever he does can hurt other countries. He threatened to send in the military after he said Iran attacked Saudi Arabia’s oil fields. He triggered economic jitters across the globe with his trade war against China. And he disagreed with just about everyone when he insisted North Korea didn’t violate a U.N. Security Council resolution when it re-started weapons testing.”
–Anita Kumar, “Trump tries to make America relevant again to the U.N.,” Politico September 23, 2019 9:06 pm