Trump Accuses UN and Aid agency Latest News: US President Donald Trump reiterated claims that he had singlehandedly ended seven ‘un-end-able wars’ during a lengthy address before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. He was also scathing in his criticism of the United Nations — accusing the international body of causing “new problems” and failing to solve existing crises.
“Not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should—too often, it is actually creating new problems…. The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders… The UN is supposed to stop invasions—not create them and not finance them,” the POTUS said.
“I ended seven wars … I never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help,” he added.
Trump, who has cast himself as a peacemaker in a bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize, complained that the United Nations did not support his efforts to end conflicts around the world. He added to his complaints with personal grievances about the U.N. infrastructure, saying he and first lady Melania Trump were briefly marooned on a malfunctioning UN escalator and that his teleprompter was not initially working.
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations – a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” Trump said.
Criticism of the United Nations featured prominently in his speech — with Trump also recalling the time when he had lost a bid to renovate its New York headquarters. He recalled talking about how how he would use “the best of everything” for the project. Trump also also took a swipe at existing UN infrastructure — highlighting several flaws and noting that the renovation project had ultimately incurred massive cost overruns.
“Many years ago, a very successful real estate developer in New York known as Donald J Trump bid on the renovation and rebuilding of this very United Nations complex. I remember it so well. I said at the time that I would do it for $500 million, rebuilding everything. It’d be beautiful,” Trump told close to 150 world leaders on Tuesday.