By Jennifer A Dlouhy, Josh Wingrove, and Magdalena Del Valle
President Donald Trump had barely arrived at the United Nations Tuesday when the mishaps began. First an escalator ground to a halt right as First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it. Then, as the president took the stage to address delegates at the UN headquarters, he complained his teleprompter broke.
Trump seized on the two incidents to argue how poorly he’d been treated by the world body, complaining its leaders hadn’t helped him end the seven wars he’s repeatedly boasted about bringing to a close. It set the tone for an hour-long speech in which the president excoriated the entire institution, right down to the headquarters he’d sought to renovate decades ago.
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations — a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter, thank you very much,” Trump said, adding that his administration never gets credit for its success, including global conflicts he’s intervened in attempting to solve. “Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements.”
The speech was emblematic of a president whose second-term policies and pronouncements have been bigger and more aggressive — and far more disruptive to the global economic order — than those he advanced his first four years in the White House.
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