Trump’s address to world leaders at the UN was for a different audience: his base | Donald Trump
Donald Trump may have spoken to the 192 other world leaders gathered to the United Nations, but the real target of his speech on Tuesday was Europe, which was transported several times as the whip for a anti-liberal and bloodthirsty controversy which has renewed an assault on the transatlantic relationship which has become the theme of his second administration.
In an hour -long address to world leaders and delegations, Trump directly told European leaders that they destroyed their own country – and that they should look more like the United States because it has condemned their policies on immigration, green energy and political accuracy.
They were not subtle excavations. In migration, he told Europeans that “your countries go to hell”. On the approach of Europe to climate change, he said that it was “on the verge of destruction because of the green energy agenda”. During the war in Ukraine, he declared that Europe “financed war against themselves. Who has heard heard of that one? ”
He even found the time to target local politicians such as Sadiq Khan, which he called a “terrible and terrible mayor” and said that London “wanted to go to Sharia law”. There was a barrage of complaints on immigrants and questionable statistics on the prison populations in Germany and the “beautiful Swiss”. At times, it would not have been out of words for the European Parliament.
“If you don’t stop people you have never seen before, that you have nothing in common, your country will fail,” he said during the speech. “I am the President of the United States, but I worry about Europe. I love Europe, I like the inhabitants of Europe. And I hate that it is devastated by [green] Energy and immigration, this double tail monster that destroys everything in its wake. »»
It is the red meat for its supporters, and observers from the whole aisle in the United States quickly identified the probable public of Trump as its own base. The first 10 minutes were almost a classic strain speech, Trump saying to foreign leaders of the way he had managed inflation and that after eight months in the office “we are the hottest country in the world, and there is not even other nearby country”.
But then, he turned his gaze to the United Nations failures and other world leaders – in which a collaborator presented that he would denounce the “globalists”. The American conservatives were reportedly delighted to see Trump tear European liberals, who were forced to watch and applaud politely when they were accused of poor management of their country.
“Let us not claim that it is a discourse of foreign policy or to dignify it by calling it one,” wrote Ned Price, a former deputy to the United Nations US representative during the Biden administration. “It is mainly Maga Madlibs. Trump speaks at its political base, hitting each of its campaign successes, while addressing a room of leaders who prefer to be almost everywhere.”
If Trump’s speech had a foreign policy predecessor, it would be JD Vance’s address earlier this year at the Munich Security Conference, when the US vice-president embarked on a tirade against European leaders against conservative horses, including migration and affirms that Europe stifled freedom of speech.
“No voter on this continent went to the polls to open valves to millions of immigrants not assessed,” said Vance during a speech that the best EU diplomat said he had “tried to choose a fight”. “If you run in the fear of your own voters, there is nothing that America can do for you.”
Trump did not mention European voters on Tuesday, but he accused European leaders of “destroying your inheritance” – an affirmation shared by right -wing groups in Europe with which the American president and his allies were increasingly friendly.
“You do it because you want to be nice, you want to be politically correct,” he said in a mocking way. Again, it looked a lot like the administration sought to fight with Europe.
