Trump's Global Grievance Tour
He was a walking disaster at the U.N. And he's turning the DOJ into his personal political hit squad.
Donald Trump’s return to the United Nations stage was never going to be a quiet affair; he’d been nearly laughed out of the room on his last visit, and he clearly was not in a magnanimous mood for another trip to Turtle Bay. As part of the Donnie’s Decline Tour, he delivered accordingly this week.
His 2025 U.N. General Assembly address was part grievance tour, part rhetorical blitz, part word vomit, part Grandpa Ranty in the nursing home cafeteria ranting about how uppity the minorities were getting. He blamed broken escalators and glitchy teleprompters on “sabotage,” excoriated the U.N. as a tool of globalist overreach, and scolded European nations for their immigration and climate policies. (Both the prompter and the escalator were human errors by Trump’s own team, but that didn’t stop Jesse Watters from calling for the U.N. to be nuked. I wish that was a joke.)
The MAGA commentariat praised the speech as Churchillian, hailing Trump as the anti-globalist Demosthenes, the greatest speech, delivered by the greatest speaker in Western history. Imagine the normal MAGA fellation of Trump’s rhetorical skills, only on methamphetamine.
But outside the Fox News echo chamber, the reaction was markedly colder and rightly and far more skeptical.
From London to Canberra, newspapers and international outlets greeted the speech harshly. The Guardian deemed it an “embarrassing performance,” a grievance-laden rant that flitted unpredictably between insults, conspiracy insinuations, and anti-globalist polemic. France 24 ran press reviews labeling parts of it “deranged,” “incoherent,” and a staple of Trump-era overreach.