#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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