#Brazil president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is the first world leader to address #UNGA, after the UN’s secretary general & the Assembly’s president, because of tradition. The representative from Brazil has spoken first since the mid-1950s because, at the time, no other country’s leader was willing to do so. That position is now considered a coveted slot that can help set the tone for the week.

As the #US is the host nation to the #UN HQ in NY, #Trump, will be the second leader to speak.

#Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva, opens his speech at the #UnitedNations painting a dark picture of global #diplomacy, sharply criticizing attacks on #sovereignty & the use of arbitrary #sanctions. “Our sovereignty & our #democracy are non-negotiable,” he says.

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In a reference to #Trump’s attempts to pressure #Brazil into dropping the# coup case against former President Jair #Bolsonaro, #Lula stresses that foreign intervention in his country’s #judiciary is unacceptable. Impunity for those who try to undermine Brazil’s #democracy is not an option, Lula says.

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#Trump announces his teleprompter is not working. He says whoever is operating it is “in big trouble.”

With the telprompter failing, Trump is reading from paper. “We’re the hottest country anywhere in the world,″ he says, talking about the #US, not the #UN on its 80th anniversary.

Then it’s just a firehose of #lies.

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#Trump repeatedly bashed President #Biden.

🤣 After the teleprompter stopped working when #Trump took the podium, a #UN official says that the #WhiteHouse operates the telepromptor for the #US president, & that some other delegations also bring their own operators.

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#Trump also bashed the #UN, claiming he has solved conflicts around the world while the UN did nothing: “It’s sad I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them.”

“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” Trump asked.

Trump goes on & on about how he didn’t win a bid to renovate the UN building long before he became president. He goes on a tangent about construction materials.

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#Trump repeatedly tells the #UN that he should win multiple #Nobel Peace Prizes, claiming he has solved 7+ wars or conflicts, his role in those are seriously in dispute by the countries he claims to have saved.

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#Trump lists the wars that he says he ended: Israel vs Iran, Cambodia vs Thailan, Armenia & Azerbaijan. Then he argued he was doing, as a side job, what the #UN should. “The United Naitons did not even ty to help in any on them.” He added, “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator on the way up that stopped right in the middle & a broken teleprompter.”

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#Trump argues that containing #NuclearWeapons has been his No. 1 priority. He talks about the offer he made to #Iran, in hopes of getting it to give up its nuclear program. “Today most of Iran’s military commanders are no longer with us; they are dead,” he says, & repeats the totally debunked lie that the #US attack on #Fordo, #Natanz & #Esphahan “completely obliterated” its nuclear stockpiles.

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#Trump bashes #US #allies who are recognizing a #PalestinianState.

He moves on to #Ukraine, without dealing with the issues of #Israel’s efforts to take over #GazaCity, & without talking about his past promises to bring in more #food & #aid.

On Ukraine, Trump again blames his predecessor, #Biden.

He names #China & #India as funders of the war in Ukraine by their purchases of #Russia #oil.

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#Trump again *threatens* #tariffs on #Russia — notably not traditonal economic #sanctions — but only if #Europe ends all of its #oil & #gas purchases. He says he learned only 2 weeks ago that European nations were still buying some Russian petroleum products even though it has been going on for the duration of the war — the past 3½ years.

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“Your countries are being ruined” because of immigration, #Trump tells the representatives from countries gathered at the UN.

The speech has turned to a wandering series of complaints, including #immigration to Britain and criticism of London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, who is Muslim. But so far there is no description of a vision for what the #UN should become, 80 years after its founding.

“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell,” Trump says.

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