Donald Trump's opening remarks at the United Nations today drew laughter from world leaders bracing for a braggadocios address.
Trump claimed that in remarks that were written for him that 'in less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.'
As if reading the speech for the first time, he chimed in with a, 'so true,' leading to laughter from international leaders.
He smiled, taking in stride, and proclaimed, 'didn't expect that reaction but that's OK,' before moving on the extraordinary progress he says he's overseen in the U.S.
A year ago at the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. president was slapping North Korea with heavy sanctions. Now he said, 'The missiles and rockets are no longer flying in every direction.'
'I would like to thank Chairman Kim for his current and steps he has taken,' Trump said while acknowledging, 'So much work remains to be done.'
Trump relentlessly hammered Iran as a state sponsor of terror and chided China for alleged currency manipulation and intellectual property theft.
'Those days are over. We will no longer tolerate such abuse,' Trump said. '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.'
Donald Trump 's opening remarks at the United Nations today drew laughter from world leaders bracing for a braggadocios address
Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres greets first lady Melania Trump following her husband's speech
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner listen to Trump speak at the United Nations on Tuesday
All of Trump's adult children were spotted in the audience except for Donald Trump, Jr. who tweeted a photo of himself campaigning this week for Republicans. Next to Jared Kusher is Trump daugther-in-law Lara and Trump's middle son Eric
Sovereign message: Trump's resounding message to the United Nations General Assembly was that he would not allow America to be taken advantage of by friends or enemies.
Packed house: The United Nations General Assembly hall was full as Trump delivered his second address to world leaders
Unwavering message: Trump made clear he was not changing his 'America first' message and kept it up with attacks on OPEC and China over trade and oil prices
Trump's resounding message throughout the remarks to his global audience was that he would not allow America to be taken advantage of by friends or enemies.
'Moving forward, we are only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us and, frankly, are our friends,' he announced. 'And we expect other countries to pay their fair share for the cost of their defense.'
Trump called out Germany, specifically, for an oil and gas deal it entered into with Russia and commended Poland for prioritizing its energy independence.
'Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course,' he said.
The slam was the closest he came to challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin.
'Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers,' he added.
LOVE OF COUNTRY: TRUMP EMPHASIZES 'PATRIOTISM' AND 'SOVEREIGNTY'
Trump spoke at length about patriotism, saying that other countries' nationals also have the 'heart of a patriot that feels the same powerful love for your nation, the same intense loyalty for your homeland' that Americans do for theirs.
That love of country and dedication and the foundation upon which it is built is necessary, he said, 'to unleash this incredible potential in our people' all across the globe. 'Sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle where freedom has survived, democracy has ever endured, or peace has ever prospered.
'And so we must protect our sovereignty and our cherished independence above all,' he said.
GREAT JOB, MR. PRESIDENT: Vice President Mike Pence applauds Trump during his second-ever speech to the United Nations
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (left), White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders (center), U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton (her left), Pence, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (center right) and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listen to Trump's speech intently on Tuesday
MOVE OVER, DONALD: First lady Melania Trump wore a sleeveless black ensemble for the occasion
ALL IN THE FAMILY: Trump's two daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany, leave the UN after their father's address
BORED TO TEARS? A delegate wipes his eyes as Trump delivers his remarks, which began late and lasted longer than his allotted time
Trump used Nicolás Maduro regime's power grab in Venezuela to make his point, saying, 'All nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings everyone.'
'Socialism's thirst for power leads to expansion, incursion, and oppression,' he said. 'Today, we are announcing additional sanctions against the repressive regime, targeting Maduro's inner circle and close advisors.'
Trump anchored his remarks on a theme of 'patriotism, prosperity and pride,' telling fellow leaders, 'Let us choose peace, and freedom over domination and defeat.'
'We believe that when nations respect the rights of their neighbors, and defend the interests of their people, they can better work together to secure the blessings of safety, prosperity, and peace,' he said.
'Forever strong, forever sovereign and forever just,' Trump stated as he signed off, reiterating the point.
AXIS OF EVIL: TRUMP SMACKS RUSSIAN ALLIES IRAN AND SYRIA
Trump's passing reference to Russia was countered by a heavy assault in the remarks on Putin's allies.
Trump blamed Rouhani's government for discord in Syria saying that 'every solution to the humanitarian crisis' that has evolved 'must also include a strategy to address the brutal regime that has fueled and financed it: the corrupt dictatorship in Iran.'
'Iran's leaders sow chaos, death, and destruction. They do not respect their neighbors or borders, or the sovereign rights of nations,' he said. 'Instead, Iran's leaders plunder the nation's resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the Middle East and far beyond.'
I HAVE ARRIVED: President Trump speaks to press about Iran and North Korea as he enter the UN with wife Melania and U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley
Trump pushed the theme of 'patriotism, prosperity and pride,' telling fellow leaders, 'let us choose peace, and freedom over domination and defeat'
GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Trump embraces French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday at the United Nations
In remarks that indirectly challenged China and Canada, Trump said 'other countries' have not been as generous with their trade policies to the U.S. as is has been to theirs. His speech was attended by representatives from both nations
First Lady Melania Trump watches her husband deliver remarks at the United Nations
'The Iranian people are rightly outraged that their leaders have embezzled billions of dollars from Iran's treasury, seized valuable portions of the economy, and looted the people's religious endowments, all to line their own pockets and send their proxies to wage war. Not good,' Trump said.
Trump used Iran's support for dictator Bashar al-Assad as justification for his decision to pull the U.S. out of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran.
'The Iran deal was a windfall for Iran's leaders,' he argued. 'The dictatorship used the funds to build nuclear-capable missiles, increase internal repression, finance terrorism, and fund havoc and slaughter in Syria and Yemen.'
Punishing economic sanctions on Iran will resume on Nov. 4 and will continue until the country stops underwriting terror cells and building ballistic missiles.
'We cannot allow the world's leading sponsor of terrorism to possess the planet's most dangerous weapons. We cannot allow a regime that chants 'Death to America,' and that threatens Israel with annihilation, to possess the means to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on Earth. Just can't do it,' he asserted.
TRUMP PLEDGES TO ACT ON A CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK IN SYRIA
Trump paired the stick with a carrot in his remarks, lauding the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar for pledging billions of dollars of aid to Syrian refugees.
'And they are pursuing multiple avenues to ending Yemen’s horrible, horrific civil war,' he said. 'Ultimately, it is up to the nations of the region to decide what kind of future they want for themselves and their children.'
The country of Jordan should also be commended for hosting refugees from Syria, he said, calling the 'ongoing tragedy' there heartbreaking. Our shared goals must be the de-escalation of military conflict, along with a political solution that honors the will of the Syrian people. In this vein, we urge the United Nations-led peace process be reinvigorated. But, rest assured, the United States will respond if chemical weapons are deployed by the Assad regime.
PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT: TRUMP TOUTS ISRAELI EMBASSY RELOCATION AND FAIR AND RECIPROCAL TRADE
In a nod to Israel, Trump noted that he had moved the United States embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. He spent little time discussing the topic, however, in a departure from his prior suggestions that the move was one of his crowing achievements.
'America's policy of principled realism means we will not be held hostage to old dogmas, discredited ideologies, and so-called experts who have been proven wrong over the years, time and time again. This is true not only in matters of peace, but in matters of prosperity,' he said instead.
Trump has shaken up American foreign policy in almost every arena, especially when it comes to the relationship between security and trade.
America has historically placed a premium on its security relationships, even when it has had to make concessions in other policy areas such as trade.
'We believe that trade must be fair and reciprocal. The United States will not be taken advantage of any longer,' he asserted on Tuesday.
NO MORE MR. NICE GUY: CHINA AND OPEC UNDER A MICROSCOPE
In remarks that indirectly challenged China and Canada, Trump said 'other countries' have not been as generous with their trade policies to the U.S. as is has been to theirs.
'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,' he said. 'For this reason, we are systematically renegotiating broken and bad trade deals.'
He pointed to the as-of-yet to be signed U.S.-Mexico trade agreement and a new U.S.-South Korea trade deal, and said: 'This is just the beginning.'
'Many nations in this hall will agree that the world trading system is in dire need of change,' he said.
Rebuffing China, Trump said, 'For example, countries were admitted to the World Trade Organization 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,' he continued. 'The United States has just announced tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese-made goods for a total, so far, of $250 billion.'
To China's Xi Jinping, who was not attending the United Nations General Assembly this year, Trump said: '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.'
Trump said he would not tolerate cabals like OPEC to continue 'ripping off' America and the rest of the world, either, and that nations in control of rising prices will have to contribute more to their own military protection as a result.
'We are not going to put up with it -- these horrible prices -- much longer,' he said. 'I don't like it. Nobody should like it. We defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices. Not good.'
Donald Trump will take credit at the United Nations today for warmed relations with North Korea that could lead to nuclear non-proliferation pact in a keynote speech to the body's general assembly. The President is seen here with Kim Jong-un in June
LITTLE ROCKET MAN: KIM JONG-UN GETS A SHOUT OUT
A year ago this month, Trump used his first-ever remarks to the body to smack around North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, describing him as 'Rocket Man on a suicide mission' over his refusal to relinquish the country's nuclear weapons.
But in Monday remarks in New York, Trump declared that after meeting Kim at a June summit he has a 'very good relationship' with the American adversary and intends to meet him for a second summit 'quite soon' to continue negotiations.
'If you'll remember, the rhetoric last year was extremely tough last year with North Korea,' Sanders said this morning on ABC News. 'I think you'll see certainly see different tone, and a lot of progress has been made on that front,in large part due to the president's leadership.'
Trump expressed his gratitude to foreign leaders who stood behind his effort to replace the 'specter of conflict with a bold and new push for peace' as demonstrated by his meeting with Kim in Singapore.
'Since that meeting, we have already seen a number of encouraging measures that few could have imagined only a short time ago,' he said. 'Our hostages have been released. And as promised, the remains of our fallen heroes are being returned home to lay at rest in American soil.'
Trump has since turned his attention to curbing the nuclear threat from Iran and a deal the U.S. exited in search of a longer-term agreement with the nation that includes its terror financing. He is reintroducing sanctions on Tehran that were lifted as part of the 2015 agreement in November.
'Our actions in and around the Middle East have made clear we will not continue to accept Iran's bad behavior,' U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told journalists on Monday.
Trump said in a Tuesday morning tweet that he would not be meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani while he's in New York.
'I will meet with them when they change their tune,' he told journalists as he entered the United Nations.
Pompeo said the theme of Trump's speech to the general assembly would be 'sovereignty' of the U.S. and other law-abiding nations of the world.
A year ago this month, Trump (pictured yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly) used his first-ever remarks to the body to smack around North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, describing him as 'Rocket Man on a suicide mission' over his refusal to relinquish the country's nuclear weapons
The White House had said that Trump would boast that Western defense spending had increased under his leadership, easing the financial burden on the United States. He was also supposed to talk about warmed relations with North Korea that could lead to nuclear non-proliferation pact in the keynote speech.
'I think that his speech this morning is going to be a great moment for the president. We've had a tremendous amount of success, particularly when it comes to the foreign policy front, over the last year, since he gave his last speech,' White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told 'Good Morning America' on Tuesday.
'WE'RE HERE WITH A BANG': TRUMP FINDS HIS FOOTING AT UNGA
U.S. officials said Monday that Trump's leadership is the reason that allied nations have stepped up their own efforts to fight international threats from terror cells and tyrants, as well as issues like the global drug epidemic.
'Last year we started UNGA and it was trying to figure what the U.S. presence was going to be,' U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told reporters. 'This year, we're here with a bang.'
In the year since Trump's last address to the United Nations, he has turned U.S. foreign policy on its head, raking countries the U.S. considers friends over the coals for trade practices he says are unfair and embracing nations like North Korea that the previous administration had totally shunned.
'That theme will endure in his speech tomorrow, along with a recap about how his call for every nation to do its part has paid dividends for the United States and the world over this past year,' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
He added, 'For example, President Trump's leadership, combined with efforts of countries to enforce the pressure campaign, has deescalated tensions with North Korea and brought us closer to our final goal: the final, fully verified denuclearization of the DRPK, as agreed to by Chairman Kim Jong Un.'
Trump's brand new version of the Cadillac presidential limousine known as 'The Beast' awaits the president outside Trump tower this morning prior to his address to the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, a former United Nations ambassador, stressed that 'infringements on our sovereignty are not infringements on abstractions or infringements on the government, they're an infringement on the people themselves.' He said that Trump's speech would make the point in a number of ways.
Pompeo told reporters, 'Americans expect the United States to assert bold leadership on the world stage that reflects our values. And under President Trump, we are certainly leading from the front.'
Trump in a morning tweet said his speech would highlight the security results he's achieved for Americans and the respect he says it's getting abroad under his leadership.
'Our country is much stronger and much richer than it was when I took office less than two years ago. We are also MUCH safer!' he tweeted.
Tacking on to the claim in his remarks, Trump said, 'America’s economy is booming like never before. Since my election, we’ve added $10 trillion in wealth. The stock market is at an all-time high in history, and jobless claims are at a 50-year low. African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American unemployment have all achieved their lowest levels ever recorded. We’ve added more than 4 million new jobs, including half a million manufacturing jobs.
'We have passed the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history. We’ve started the construction of a major border wall, and we have greatly strengthened border security,' he stated. 'In other words, the United States is stronger, safer, and a richer country than it was when I assumed office less than two years ago.
'We are standing up for America and for the American people. And we are also standing up for the world,' he stated.
Trump told countries that may not share the United States' beliefs: '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.'
Trump claimed later, as he was exiting the United Nations after a lunch that he wasn't bothered by the laughter during that section of his speech, which had begun with the claim that his aides 'had accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.'
''That was meant to get some laughter, but it was great,' he said.
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