A defiant Donald Trump took to the podium of the UN General Assembly, aware that many of the world leaders in the room blame him for what the Secretary General António Guterres called the widening “faultlines in our world”.
This US President has launched a hot war with Iran and a trade war with allies, driving up prices around the world. So he had some explaining to do – to the presidents and prime ministers gathered in Manhattan, and to the Americans who are grappling with higher energy prices and go to the polls in November.
As ever, his performance was infused with the spirit of a campaign rally. Trump defended his interventions in Iran and Venezuela as necessary to defend the world order, branding himself the one man willing to make the tough but necessary choices.
“America is back and our country is stronger today than ever before,” he declared, claiming “our economy is the envy of the world, and our military is the most powerful on earth.” America, he boasted, is “the hottest country anywhere in the world”.
In true Trumpian hyperbolic style, he said the threat of Iran had plagued the world for “far too long”, claiming that the regime had been “the bully of the Middle East, but they are the bully no more”. It was quite the claim, given that not only is Iran controlling the amount of oil going through the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran’s proxies, the Houthis, are now targeting Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure, too.
Trump went on to say he had a big decision to make regarding Iran – a typical rhetorical trick, one the former reality TV star likes to use to build up dramatic tension. “Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before?” he asked, or, “do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them the chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?
“Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”
First lady Melania Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles, arrive to listen to Trump’s address at the UN headquarters (Photo: AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)It was an echo of his social media threat earlier this year that he might wipe out a civilisation in Iran, which led some legal experts to accuse him of considering committing a war crime. Yet the threat to wipe out Iran sounded shockingly stark when delivered in person, by a US President speaking at the podium in the United Nations, the organisation set up to secure world peace after the Second World War.
No sooner had he delivered the threat to destroy Iran, Trump lowered the temperature, declaring he believed Tehran would strike a deal with him “right after” the midterm elections. “They’re waiting to see how I do,” he acknowledged, giving a domestic political context to his speech. “What they don’t realise is that I’m not running. I did that already and won in a landslide.
“We won in a giant landslide, and I’ll be here for two-and-a-half years. The Republican Party is running and I’ll be helping them.”
The President is lying to himself, however, if he thinks that the vote will not be a reflection of his popularity – which has been damaged by the Iran war and subsequent soaring gas prices.
He argued that an end to the conflict with Iran was coming, “one way or the other”, as the Iranian delegation on the floor of the UN General Assembly looked stern in TV cutaways. Gas prices would plummet as soon as a deal was done, he promised, sending a message to fed-up American voters. The President also predicted a resolution to Russia’s war with Ukraine – “they’ve had it,” he declared.
The controversial operation in Venezuela where US special forces captured the leader Nicolas Maduro in January was robustly defended by the President. Some of the leaders in the hall watching the President believe this was illegal under international law. Yet Trump seemed delighted with the military operation, which has seen the US try to control and profit from the country’s vast oil reserves. “To the victor belong the spoils,” he said, matter of factly.
The Cuban delegation left the hall when he declared that Cuba’s communist government was a “failed state”, which would fall – the US has imposed a maximum economic pressure campaign on the island’s government, choking off oil deliveries since January.
Towards the end, as Trump railed against globalist institutions that have encouraged mass migration and undermined culture and announced he was renaming artificial intelligence “special intelligence”, he admitted that he might not be all powerful.
Encouraging the world to adopt this new name for AI, he mused, “welcome to the new world of SI – that sounds better. Let’s see if I have any power. Maybe I do, maybe I don’t.”
Depending on how the voters view his foreign policy escapades, Trump’s power could be greatly diminished after November’s midterm elections – this was his chance to defend his record.
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