๐บ๐ธ United States of America - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 81st Session โ Transcript
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- 0:03The assembly will hear an address by his
- 0:07excellency Donald Trump, President of
- 0:10the United States of America. I request
- 0:13protocol to escort his excellency and
- 0:16invite him to address the assembly.
- 0:38Thank you very much, Mr. President, Mr.
- 0:42Secretary General, First Lady of the
- 0:45United States,
- 0:47distinguished delegates, ambassadors,
- 0:49and fellow leaders.
- 0:52It's my great honor to welcome the world
- 0:55to America as we celebrate 250 years of
- 0:58glorious freedom and independence.
- 1:01Two and a half centuries after the cause
- 1:04of liberty found its home on this
- 1:07continent, I can report to you with
- 1:10pride that America is back and our
- 1:14country is stronger today than ever
- 1:18before.
- 1:21Our economy is the envy of the world.
- 1:23Our military is the most powerful on
- 1:25earth. Our technology is second to none.
- 1:28And we are leading in virtually
- 1:30everything. Our energy is fueling the
- 1:33planet. America is rising. Our nation is
- 1:37growing. Our power is expanding. Our
- 1:39country is doing better than ever
- 1:41before. And our future is very, very
- 1:44bright.
- 1:45Since I took office, we have created
- 1:48more than 1 million new private sector
- 1:50jobs, and more Americans are working
- 1:53today by far than ever before.
- 1:57Last week, it was announced that the
- 2:00poverty rate has reached its lowest
- 2:02level in American history. We lifted 1.5
- 2:06million Americans out of poverty last
- 2:09year alone, another record. The
- 2:12African-American and Hispanic American
- 2:15poverty rates are at all-time lows. Real
- 2:19household incomes for Americans have
- 2:22soared to the highest level in history,
- 2:2587,000 on average, surpassing the prior
- 2:29record that I set in my first term. From
- 2:33day one, my administration has worked to
- 2:35remove every single unnecessary
- 2:37regulation and obstacle to doing
- 2:40business in America. We passed the
- 2:43largest tax cuts in American history.
- 2:45And as a result, more money is being
- 2:47invested in the United States right now
- 2:50than has ever been invested in any
- 2:52nation anywhere in the world.
- 2:55US stock markets have set 80 all-time
- 2:58records, and that's just in the last
- 3:0312 months. We've secured commitments for
- 3:06$21 trillion in new investments from all
- 3:09over the planet, compared to less than
- 3:12$1 trillion in four years in the
- 3:15previous administration.
- 3:17Two years ago, our country was dead. And
- 3:20now, we have the hottest country
- 3:22anywhere in the world. Before I took
- 3:24office, we had the worst and most
- 3:26dangerous border on Earth. And now we
- 3:28have the most secure border in American
- 3:30history. Nobody comes in unless they're
- 3:33invited, unless they have permission. In
- 3:37the past 16 months, zero illegal aliens
- 3:39have been admitted to the United States.
- 3:42And that's done by some very
- 3:44sophisticated people. It's not done by
- 3:46the Trump administration. Zero. As a
- 3:49result, last year we achieved the
- 3:51largest drop in violent crime ever
- 3:54recorded. The murder rate has plummeted
- 3:57to its lowest level in 125 years since
- 4:01the year 1900.
- 4:03I sent our crime busters into Memphis,
- 4:06Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana,
- 4:08and crime in each place went down over
- 4:1180% and it'll go down still further.
- 4:14More importantly, when I arrived on
- 4:16January 20th of last year in Washington
- 4:19DC, it was riddled with crime. And now
- 4:23crime is down 87%.
- 4:26And we're going for 100. Tourism is if
- 4:29if you take a look, and I guess a lot of
- 4:31you have been there, tourism is
- 4:34thriving. Restaurants are bustling, and
- 4:37people are proud of our nation's
- 4:39capital. They're proud like never
- 4:41before. We've invested more money in the
- 4:44United States military in the past 12
- 4:46months than ever before. And this term,
- 4:49it'll be $1.5 trillion dollar. We
- 4:52inherited a dark age of America from the
- 4:55previous administration, and we turned
- 4:57it into the golden age of America. The
- 5:01entire world is being lifted by the
- 5:05wealth, strength, spirit, and momentum
- 5:07of a newly energized and a very powerful
- 5:11United States of America. And just as we
- 5:14moved quickly to address problems we
- 5:16inherited at home, we have acted with
- 5:19decisiveness and speed to reshape the
- 5:22world stage and solve problems that have
- 5:25plagued us for far too long. every
- 5:28leader in this room and your great
- 5:30leaders, many great leaders. I know all
- 5:33of you very well. But they know that
- 5:36given only a short time to make this
- 5:39world better, safer, and more prosperous
- 5:41for our children, for the people on
- 5:43earth, we have to take advantage of it.
- 5:46As president of the most extraordinary
- 5:48nation in history, I have no interest in
- 5:50leaving dangers to grow for another day.
- 5:53I do not believe in letting problems
- 5:56fester. they only become harder to
- 5:58solve. So while others have talked, I
- 6:02have acted. While others have spoken of
- 6:05peace, I have made peace. While others
- 6:08have ignored threats, I have confronted
- 6:12them. While others have talked of
- 6:14courage, America has shown it. While
- 6:17others have promised strength, I have
- 6:20used it to make America the most
- 6:22powerful country in the world. Working
- 6:25with many nations in this room, we are
- 6:28solving decades of intractable
- 6:30challenges and we are settling years of
- 6:33unfinished business and we're doing it
- 6:35well. There is no better example of a
- 6:38danger that was allowed to gather
- 6:40strength at the world's peril than the
- 6:43number one sponsor of terror, the
- 6:46Islamic Republic of Iran. For 51 years,
- 6:51the fanatical Iranian regime has ruled
- 6:55by bloodshed and mass murder, spreading
- 6:58death and carnage and chaos across the
- 7:01entire Middle East and beyond. They were
- 7:05the bully of the Middle East, but they
- 7:06are the bully no more. From the first
- 7:09day I entered the political arena, I've
- 7:11been unwavering. I will never allow Iran
- 7:14to have a nuclear weapon. Upon taking
- 7:18office last year, I immediately opened
- 7:20negotiations with Iran and offered them
- 7:23full economic cooperation in exchange
- 7:25for ending their nuclear program and
- 7:28support for terror. But they refused.
- 7:31They absolutely refused. That was a big
- 7:33mistake. Then in Operation Midnight
- 7:36Hammer, the US military obliterated
- 7:39their nuclear program beneath mountains
- 7:41of rubble. And again, I urged Iran to
- 7:43make a deal. And again, they refused.
- 7:47The regime continued building a vast
- 7:49missile and drone stockpile that
- 7:52threatened the security of every
- 7:53American service member in the region
- 7:55and everyone else in the region. They
- 7:58also made a missile that was capable of
- 8:02hitting Europe and they were very proud
- 8:03of it. I hope the Europeans realize that
- 8:06Iran's goal was to complete their mad
- 8:10dash to a nuclear bomb from behind this
- 8:14conventional ballistic missile shield.
- 8:17If they had succeeded, that wicked
- 8:19regime would have been free to spread
- 8:21terror and death forever, knowing that
- 8:24any attempt to stop them would face an
- 8:26arsenal of nuclear annihilation.
- 8:30In America, we just marked the 25th
- 8:32anniversary of the worst terror attack
- 8:34in history, September 11th, which killed
- 8:373,000 people just a few miles from here.
- 8:41It's an unbelievably
- 8:43terrible time. In two weeks, we will
- 8:46mark the third anniversary of the
- 8:48October 7th attack in Israel, where
- 8:50terrorists funded by Iran tortured,
- 8:53mutilated, and killed 1,200
- 8:56very innocent civilians, including
- 8:58dozens of Americans and many babies.
- 9:01Babies. Little tiny, beautiful babies.
- 9:05Iran Supreme Leader celebrated that
- 9:07massacre and called it a service to
- 9:10humanity. The same regime slaughtered
- 9:13over 72,000 of its citizens this year.
- 9:16Recently, 10,000 were killed for
- 9:20protesting. Just imagine such a vile
- 9:24regime were ever empowered to carry out
- 9:26large-scale terror attacks from behind a
- 9:29nuclear shield. This was the reality we
- 9:32had to confront. A reality that far too
- 9:35many preferred to ignore. They all
- 9:38ignored it. Many presidents and many
- 9:40others just wanted to ignore it. They
- 9:42were unwilling to do anything about it.
- 9:44But they knew the problem. After giving
- 9:47Iran every chance for a deal, I took
- 9:49action to ensure that neither the United
- 9:52States nor any nation this whole would
- 9:55ever have to face such a nightmare, such
- 9:57a catastrophic
- 9:59problem. As a result of Operation Epic
- 10:03Fury, all 159 ships of their Navy are
- 10:06now lying at the bottom of the sea.
- 10:10Likewise, their air force is gone. Their
- 10:12radar is gone. Their anti-aircraft
- 10:15equipment is gone. Their missiles and
- 10:17drone manufacturing capacity is almost
- 10:20gone. Their economy is gone. The only
- 10:23thing that isn't gone is inflation,
- 10:26which is destroying their country and is
- 10:29now well over 300%.
- 10:33Yet, even after we agreed to a ceasefire
- 10:35for nuclear discussions, Iran promptly
- 10:38violated it with brazen acts of
- 10:40terrorism against civilian ships from
- 10:42other countries. I want to thank the UN
- 10:45Security Council for voting
- 10:47overwhelmingly to pass a resolution
- 10:50condemning Iran's despicable terrorist
- 10:53attacks on commercial shipping. Thank
- 10:56you very much.
- 10:58That resolution, I'm pleased to say,
- 11:00received more co-sponsors from UN member
- 11:04nations than any Security Council
- 11:07resolution in history. That's something.
- 11:10Now we must be equally united in
- 11:12maintaining pressure. The United States
- 11:15Navy has recently escorted more than 1
- 11:17billion barrels of oil out of the
- 11:19straight of Hormos and more oil is
- 11:22flowing than at any point since the
- 11:25start of the war. We're taking 22, 25,
- 11:2830, 32 and 37 ships out respectively
- 11:33every single day, every single night.
- 11:36But I have a big decision to make.
- 11:40Will a deal be made with Iran that lets
- 11:44them rebuild and create a far greater
- 11:47country than it ever was before, maybe
- 11:50one of the greatest in the Middle East
- 11:52or even the world?
- 11:55Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic
- 11:58and do it quickly, never giving them a
- 12:01chance to kill and destroy people and
- 12:04countries again? Do I drive them into
- 12:07hell with no chance of survival and no
- 12:10hope of future greatness or generations?
- 12:14But I believe we'll make a deal right
- 12:16after the election because it doesn't
- 12:20make sense for them not to. They're
- 12:22waiting to see how I do in the midterm
- 12:24election. What they don't realize is
- 12:27that I'm not running. I did that already
- 12:31and won in a landslide. We won in a
- 12:33giant landslide and I'll be here for two
- 12:36and a half years. The Republican party
- 12:39is running and I'll be helping them. But
- 12:41I am not running. I gave absolutely no
- 12:45credence and will not give credence to
- 12:48the election when it comes to Iran. It
- 12:52doesn't even enter my mind. The only
- 12:55thing that does is that Iran will never
- 12:57have a nuclear weapon.
- 13:01The cowards and traitors. Thank you.
- 13:09Thank you. The cowards and traitors
- 13:12would love to say the United States is
- 13:14low on munitions, but that's not true.
- 13:17We have more munitions than we could
- 13:19ever possibly even think of using, and
- 13:22we're building them at levels that we
- 13:24have never done before. We are adding to
- 13:27our stock piles faster than we have ever
- 13:30been able to do before. Topofthe- line
- 13:35stuff. In addition, in the very near
- 13:38future, massive munition plants will be
- 13:40opening. There are 18 of them being
- 13:43built by the greatest defense companies
- 13:46in the world right now. 18 under
- 13:48construction. Some of them very quickly
- 13:50will be completed. They're almost there.
- 13:54And that rapid construction will be
- 13:57leading to very rapid deployment of
- 14:00missiles of every type and ammunition of
- 14:02every type. And we'll be able to supply
- 14:04our allies at a much faster rate than
- 14:07we're doing right now.
- 14:09I call on all nations to join us in
- 14:12enforcing the complete economic
- 14:14isolation of Iran until they stop their
- 14:17attacks on commercial shipping,
- 14:19relinquish their nuclear ambitions, and
- 14:22cease their support of terror. The
- 14:25terrorist regime is behaving badly, not
- 14:29because they are strong and confident,
- 14:32but because they are weak and desperate.
- 14:36If we stand united, we will soon see a
- 14:39world free of the last 51-year menace of
- 14:43Iranian terror. And oil prices will come
- 14:46plummeting down, even lower than they
- 14:48were at the start of the conflict. And
- 14:50they were very low. In the United
- 14:52States, they were really low. With
- 14:56courage and resolve, anything is
- 14:57possible. Big changes can happen and
- 15:01happen fast. One year ago when I
- 15:03addressed the great leaders this hall,
- 15:06the war in Gaza was still raging
- 15:08brutally. The hostages were still deep
- 15:11in Hamas tunnels and there was no end in
- 15:14sight. It was never going to be
- 15:16resolved. But here on the sidelines of
- 15:20the General Assembly, we took the first
- 15:22steps. It changed everything. A few
- 15:24weeks later, we ended the war in Gaza,
- 15:27saving untold thousands of lives. We
- 15:30also brought home all remaining
- 15:33hostages, both living and dead. Every
- 15:37single one of them. Thank you.
- 15:41[applause]
- 15:42Thank you. Everyone thought it was a
- 15:45miracle that we were able to do so and
- 15:48people celebrated in the streets. I want
- 15:50to express my gratitude to the United
- 15:52Nations Security Council for their
- 15:54unanimous endorsement of our 20point
- 15:57Gaza Peace Plant and for officially
- 16:01approving the board of peace. Going to
- 16:03be a very significant
- 16:05group of people. Nearly 30 countries
- 16:07have joined the board which I am honored
- 16:10to chair and we're thankful to many of
- 16:13those member nations for contributing
- 16:15billions and billions of dollars to
- 16:17relief. And it goes right to the
- 16:20rebuilding and relief of Morocco,
- 16:23Bahrain. These are the countries that
- 16:26gave Qatar, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Saudi
- 16:29Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, and many more.
- 16:34That money goes right to the source,
- 16:37right where they need it, and they
- 16:38desperately need it. And those countries
- 16:41are very have been very generous. and
- 16:43others also are stepping up at numbers
- 16:46that nobody would even believe because
- 16:47they want to see people live. They want
- 16:50to see the humanitarian thing happen
- 16:53properly. They've been fantastic. I also
- 16:56want to thank those who have committed
- 16:58troops, police, and training to help
- 17:00stabilize Gaza, including Indonesia,
- 17:03Morocco, Albania, Kosovo, Kazakhstan,
- 17:08Egypt, Jordan, and more.
- 17:12Since I took office, it has been my
- 17:15great honor to settle eight wars and in
- 17:18so doing become friendly with the
- 17:20leaders of many of those countries. It
- 17:23was a great honor to do it. Numerous of
- 17:26these wars have gone on for many years
- 17:28and even decades. The reason I was able
- 17:31to make these settlements was the use of
- 17:33my relationships, very special
- 17:36relationships to this day. Very, very
- 17:39special. trade, the use of tariffs and
- 17:42the threat of tariffs and various other
- 17:45reasons depending on the country among
- 17:48them
- 17:50terms of settlement, Cambodia
- 17:53and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the
- 17:58Democratic Republic of the Congo and
- 18:01Rwanda,
- 18:03Pakistan and India, Armenia and
- 18:07Azeraijan,
- 18:09and of Of course, the war in Gaza, which
- 18:11as I stated previously, includes the
- 18:13return of all hostages, both living and
- 18:17dead. Almost every one of these
- 18:19countries wrote me a letter of thank
- 18:21you. The prime minister of Pakistan,
- 18:24terrific man, said that Donald Trump was
- 18:27responsible for saving 30 million lives
- 18:30and probably many more than that. The
- 18:33president of Azeraijan said President
- 18:36Trump in six months did a miracle. It
- 18:38was an absolute miracle that nobody
- 18:40thought could be done. The prime
- 18:42minister of Armenia said this
- 18:44breakthrough would simply not have been
- 18:46possible without President Trump's
- 18:48personal engagement and his resolute
- 18:51commitment to peace. A president of
- 18:54Cambodia stated, "President Trump's
- 18:56extraordinary statesmanship, marked by
- 18:58his commitment to resolving conflicts
- 19:00and preventing catastrophic wars through
- 19:04visionary, innovative diplomacy, was
- 19:07most recently demonstrated in his
- 19:09decisive role in brokering an immediate
- 19:12and unconditional ceasefire and peace.
- 19:15This timely intervention, which averted
- 19:18a potentially devastating conflict, was
- 19:21vital in preventing a great loss of
- 19:23lives and paved the way towards the
- 19:27restoration of peace. The president of
- 19:30Rwanda said, "When President Trump saw
- 19:32the opportunity to contribute to peace,
- 19:34he immediately took it. This conflict
- 19:37has lasted for 32 years. Millions and
- 19:40millions of people have died.
- 19:44We got it settled. We've seen countless
- 19:47mediations and efforts, but none has
- 19:49succeeded in resolving the underlying
- 19:52issues. President Donald Trump issued a
- 19:55new and effective
- 19:58statement that really has brought great
- 20:01peace and space through really a
- 20:05breakthrough that we thought was
- 20:07impossible.
- 20:09We're working very closely with the
- 20:10leaders of Russia and Ukraine and we
- 20:13will get that one done. It's going to
- 20:15happen, I think, more quickly than
- 20:17people understand. They've they've had
- 20:20it.
- 20:2225,000 young people, mostly soldiers a
- 20:26month are dying. 25,000 a month. And I
- 20:28look at those battlefield pictures and I
- 20:31I really don't want to see them anymore.
- 20:32It's so horrible to see. 25,000 a month.
- 20:36Both sides. In addition, the United
- 20:39States and Iran will definitely get it
- 20:41done. We will get it done one way or the
- 20:43other. It's going to be done. It's going
- 20:44to be done fast. A lot has happened
- 20:47since we last gathered here one year
- 20:49ago. In January, at my direction, the
- 20:53United States military conducted a
- 20:55massive military operation penetrating
- 20:58deep into the Venezuelan capital,
- 21:02Caracus. descended on a heavily defended
- 21:06and fortified military base, one that
- 21:08was supposed to be flawless against
- 21:12attack and arrested the outlaw dictator,
- 21:17real criminal Nicholas Maduro. Since
- 21:20that day, hundreds of Venezuelan
- 21:22political prisoners have been freed.
- 21:24They've let them out of jails. and we're
- 21:27working closely with the leaders of
- 21:29Venezuela to forge a much better future
- 21:31for the Venezuelan people. Last month,
- 21:34we signed the largest oil deal in
- 21:37history, covering 65 billion barrels of
- 21:41oil, which will benefit both Venezuela
- 21:43and the United States enormously and
- 21:45help drive down the cost of energy all
- 21:47over the world. And that is starting to
- 21:50perk right now. It's coming out. The
- 21:53biggest oil companies in the world are
- 21:54going in and the numbers are absolutely
- 21:58incredible. When you add the United
- 22:01States and Venezuela together, we have
- 22:03more than 60% of the oil in the world.
- 22:06So, it's perhaps the biggest deal. It
- 22:10was a war, but it's perhaps the biggest
- 22:12deal ever made. To the victor belong the
- 22:17spoils. You've all heard that. Our
- 22:19actions in Venezuela are proof that the
- 22:21United States will no longer permit
- 22:23threats to America to gain a foothold
- 22:26anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. And
- 22:29if necessary, we will use our unmatched
- 22:33military might to secure the vital
- 22:35national interests of the United States.
- 22:38As you know, Venezuela had the finest
- 22:39equipment in the world from other
- 22:41countries. And guess what? It didn't
- 22:42work. Didn't even come close to working.
- 22:46For decades, other administrations
- 22:48allowed much of this region to be
- 22:50dominated by vicious gangs and
- 22:52bloodthirsty drug cartels, destabilized
- 22:55by uncontrolled migration
- 22:57and infiltrated by hostile foreign
- 23:02adversaries, foreign sick,
- 23:06demented
- 23:07adversaries. But not anymore. where we
- 23:10are reasserting American power,
- 23:12including American military power where
- 23:15necessary in our region and around the
- 23:17world to create a safer future for all
- 23:21of us. It's happening and it's happening
- 23:22quickly. Upon taking office, I
- 23:26designated the drug cartels as foreign
- 23:29terrorist organizations
- 23:31and unleashed the United States armed
- 23:34forces to eliminate them. The cartels
- 23:38are the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.
- 23:42Not good people. They're enemies at war
- 23:45with civilization using murder, rape,
- 23:48torture, and extortion as instruments of
- 23:51terror. Like ISIS, they should be
- 23:53killed, exiled, or detained as enemy
- 23:57combatants without the possibility of
- 23:59release, which is what we're doing. To
- 24:01that end, the United States has carried
- 24:03out dozens of strikes on cartel drug
- 24:05boats, destroying 97% of the drugs
- 24:09coming into
- 24:11the ocean and sea. You've seen it. They
- 24:15disappear very quickly. And we're down
- 24:1890%. They're down 97%.
- 24:21Nobody thought that was possible. It was
- 24:23a big source of delivery. And three
- 24:26months ago, we terminated the leader of
- 24:28the Venezuelan gang, Tren Dearagua.
- 24:32Mexico is the epicenter of the cartel
- 24:34violence. Unfortunately, it's
- 24:36unacceptable for the United States to
- 24:38share a 2,000mi border with a territory
- 24:42controlled by enemy cartels.
- 24:45So, Mexico must reclaim control of its
- 24:47soil from the enemies of humanity. My
- 24:50administration is also seeking a
- 24:52fundamental change. And the situation in
- 24:54Cuba where the communist regime is under
- 24:57great pressure, the biggest pressure
- 25:00they've ever been under. It's an
- 25:02absolutely failed
- 25:04state.
- 25:06It's failing like never before. And it
- 25:08will fall. Marco Rubio is handling a
- 25:12negotiation. He's deep into negotiations
- 25:14with Cuba. Let's see what happens. will
- 25:16not allow a haven for foreign
- 25:19adversaries to threaten America on our
- 25:22own doorstep. It's right at our
- 25:24doorstep. The Cuban regime has also
- 25:27spent decades coordinating with the
- 25:29left-wing radicals and communist
- 25:30networks here in the United States. As
- 25:34our State Department has detailed,
- 25:36they've cultivated ties to subversive
- 25:39and radical groups such as the Communist
- 25:41Party USA, Antifa, and the Democrat
- 25:45Socialists of America. Communism will
- 25:48never be coming to America, but freedom
- 25:51will be coming to Cuba, and safety and
- 25:53security will be coming to Mexico. I'm
- 25:56very proud to tell you, we have a very
- 25:58good relationship with the Mexican
- 26:00government. We've made great strides,
- 26:02very great strides with Mexico. They
- 26:04don't want the cartels either. And when
- 26:07that day comes, this entire region will
- 26:10be a better, safer, and more beautiful
- 26:12place in which to live and thrive. As I
- 26:15announced just days ago, the United
- 26:18States has also reached an unprecedented
- 26:21agreement regarding the northern
- 26:23frontier of North America, the large and
- 26:26strategically vital piece of land known
- 26:29as Greenland.
- 26:30This agreement made with the Kingdom of
- 26:33Denmark, an incredible, beautiful
- 26:35country, and the Greenland people
- 26:38itself, gives the United States
- 26:40permanent control over security and all
- 26:43other needs on that territory. We will
- 26:45have the complete ability to do what is
- 26:48necessary to defend the American
- 26:51continent and also Europe and other
- 26:53places. No US adversary will ever be
- 26:57permitted to establish a military
- 26:59presence in Greenland anymore or make
- 27:02sensitive investments there without our
- 27:03express written approval. We will
- 27:06immediately begin the process of
- 27:08developing a large military presence in
- 27:10the appropriate locations. We will be
- 27:13building two very major military bases.
- 27:18This agreement will be signed later
- 27:20today and I look forward to working with
- 27:23the wonderful people of Denmark and
- 27:26Greenland. It's been a great experience,
- 27:28amazing experience, and we've really
- 27:30formed a bond in doing it by expanding
- 27:33America's footprint in the Arctic and
- 27:36North Atlantic. This deal also protects
- 27:38Europe in addition to America and
- 27:41greatly protects them. It also very much
- 27:45enhances NATO with who has a great
- 27:48leader and Mark I know you're in the
- 27:50audience and you are indeed a great
- 27:52leader Mark Ruta
- 27:55which is now growing stronger than ever
- 27:58before. NATO is doing things that nobody
- 28:00thought they would be able to do
- 28:01including raising their number to 5%
- 28:04from 2%
- 28:06number. That's a protection that's going
- 28:08to be much greater protection for them.
- 28:11We continue to seek and end the
- 28:13disastrous war between Russia and
- 28:16Ukraine, which is killing, as I said,
- 28:19thousands and thousands of people every
- 28:22month. Last week, in honor of Senator
- 28:25Lindsey Graeme, I signed a powerful new
- 28:27law passed by Congress providing me with
- 28:29enormous new tariff authorities, and if
- 28:32necessary, I will have to use them. It's
- 28:35time to stop the killing. I also want to
- 28:38recognize the extraordinary work of our
- 28:40great first lady who has secured the
- 28:43safe return of many displaced Ukrainian
- 28:46and Russian children back home to their
- 28:48families. So many. Thank you very much,
- 28:50first lady.
- 28:53Thank you very much. Where is our first
- 28:55lady? Where is she? She's around here
- 28:59someplace. I can you imagine? I can't
- 29:00see the first lady.
- 29:03Thank you very much, first lady.
- 29:06great job. She worked so hard on it.
- 29:08This year she also became the only first
- 29:10lady in history to preside over a
- 29:13meeting of the UN Security Council and
- 29:16she did it very well. And today she's
- 29:18hosting a gathering of fostering the
- 29:20future together which has nearly 60
- 29:24members to help improve the lives of
- 29:26young people all over the world. So
- 29:28Melania, thank you very much. Great job.
- 29:30Great job you're doing.
- 29:33Led by Ambassador Michael Waltz here at
- 29:35the United Nations, we have also worked
- 29:37with many countries in this room to
- 29:40implement the most sweeping UN reforms
- 29:42in history. We cut the UN budget for the
- 29:46first time ever, slashing it by 15% in
- 29:492026 and eliminated more than 4,000
- 29:52positions from the UN bureaucracy. The
- 29:56United Nations has great great
- 29:58potential. I've said that for many
- 29:59years. But it must stop imposing the
- 30:02far-left agenda of globalist bureaucrats
- 30:04who nobody ever elected. Last year, my
- 30:08administration was forced to intervene
- 30:10to stop an obscure UN body, the
- 30:13International Maritime Organization,
- 30:16from secretly establishing a first ever
- 30:20global carbon tax, very expensive tax to
- 30:24raise international shipping costs by 10
- 30:27to 20% and maybe more than that. There
- 30:30is no global government and while I'm
- 30:32president there will be no global taxes.
- 30:36The United States is equally opposed to
- 30:38the outofcontrol Thank you.
- 30:43Thank you very much. The United States
- 30:46is equally opposed to the out of control
- 30:48institution known as the International
- 30:51Criminal Court. We will never allow US
- 30:54service members or anyone else to be
- 30:56investigated or given show trials by an
- 30:59anti-American tribunal with no
- 31:01jurisdiction over us. You're an evil
- 31:03group of people. I call on all nations
- 31:06that are members of the IC to officially
- 31:09resign from this rogue institution
- 31:12immediately. It is equally unacceptable
- 31:14that with all the genuine atrocities in
- 31:17the world, the UN's top human rights
- 31:20officials spend their time criticizing
- 31:22the United States for protecting our
- 31:24children from transgender mutilization
- 31:27and transgender insanity
- 31:31and enforcing our immigration laws.
- 31:35What they do is unbelievable what they
- 31:37do. It's transgender mutilization of our
- 31:41children. The craven hypocrites of human
- 31:44rights council have little to say about
- 31:47the persecution of Chris Christians. I
- 31:50mean, Christians are being persecuted
- 31:52all over the world. It's not even
- 31:53believable. I never thought I'd say it,
- 31:55but it's been happening for a long time.
- 31:58So, this is persecution of Christians
- 32:00who are the crimes of the world's most
- 32:03repressive regimes. Yet, they want
- 32:05America to open up our borders to gangs
- 32:07and criminals from world's most
- 32:09dangerous places. They want the worst
- 32:12people to come in from the worst places
- 32:14on earth. And we don't do it anymore. We
- 32:17did do it, but we don't do that anymore.
- 32:20It is deeply ironic that the United
- 32:22Nations has an entire institution, the
- 32:24UNESCO
- 32:27group of people and countries devoted to
- 32:30protecting cultural heritage. Yet with
- 32:33their ceaseless promotion of mass
- 32:35migration, these globalists are actively
- 32:38destroying the greatest cultures and
- 32:40most extraordinary heritage in all of
- 32:42history. There is no human right to
- 32:45illegal immigration, but there is a
- 32:48right to remain a sovereign nation and
- 32:50we want to remain a sovereign nation and
- 32:53so should you. The United States also
- 32:56totally rejects any attempt to construct
- 32:59a globalist scheme to control for the
- 33:02artificial intelligence being spoken of
- 33:05so much now here and after officially
- 33:08called super intelligence changing the
- 33:11name and that the use of the word
- 33:14artificial makes intelligence fake. It
- 33:16makes it sound fake and it is not fake.
- 33:19It's actually amazing but we have to be
- 33:23careful. In fact, it is exactly the
- 33:26opposite of what it purports. From this
- 33:29point forward, all of United States
- 33:32documents and hopefully the worlds will
- 33:34be changed to use the much more accurate
- 33:36term super as opposed to artificial. So,
- 33:41it's super intelligence.
- 33:44In other words, welcome to the new world
- 33:46of super intelligence-
- 33:49SI.
- 33:51Let's see if that goes. It sounds much
- 33:53better. It is much better. And it's much
- 33:55more accurate. Let's see if I have any
- 33:57power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't.
- 34:00We're going to find out pretty soon.
- 34:02Super intelligence. Every major new
- 34:04technology brings challenges. And super
- 34:07intelligence is no exception. Yet the
- 34:11very same people who said we'll all be
- 34:13dead in 12 years because of global
- 34:15warming. A name since reborn to climate
- 34:18change because the planet was cooling,
- 34:20not warming. and nobody was dead. These
- 34:24are the same people that are now saying
- 34:25that AI is going to kill us all, that
- 34:27robots are going to attack us, and that
- 34:30everything is going to be a total
- 34:31disaster. Same group of people.
- 34:35This is the group that came up with the
- 34:39Russia Russia Russia hoax, the Ukraine,
- 34:42Ukraine, Ukraine hoax,
- 34:45climate change, open borders.
- 34:49Whoever wins AI, you have to remember
- 34:51this. And now I say, whoever wins SI,
- 34:55whoever wins super intelligent wins.
- 35:00That's the group that wins. And we're
- 35:02leading now over China by a lot and
- 35:04everyone else. And we're going to keep
- 35:07it that way. We're going to keep it
- 35:09very, very straight and very strong. I'm
- 35:12not going to stifle growth of something
- 35:14that will be bigger than the industrial
- 35:16revolution. many say bigger than the
- 35:18industrial revolution or the internet
- 35:21itself and we will be very careful and
- 35:24that's why we have a department of
- 35:26justice that we've already used it
- 35:28having to do with this very subject and
- 35:29used it very powerfully everything
- 35:32worked out very well and very quickly
- 35:34and other law enforcement bodies that
- 35:36will rein things in if we have to do
- 35:40that but we will only encourage
- 35:43super intelligence we're going to
- 35:45encourage it not reign it in. We're
- 35:47going to watch it closely through the
- 35:49Department of Justice. The United States
- 35:52leads the world in super intelligence
- 35:54and will continue to do so safely and
- 35:57responsibly. Americans have never been a
- 36:00nation that retreats from a frontier or
- 36:02shrinks from a challenge, no matter how
- 36:05great or how daunting that challenge may
- 36:08be. Freedom was not a gift that
- 36:10Americans won easily after 250 years.
- 36:14and it is not one that we will ever,
- 36:17ever, ever surrender. It was right here
- 36:20in New York City that George Washington
- 36:22ordered the Declaration of Independence
- 36:25read to his troops in 1776
- 36:29as they listened to those immortal words
- 36:31for the first time. The Patriots could
- 36:33see across the waters of New York Harbor
- 36:35to a British invasion fleet. More than
- 36:38100 ships strong which had just arrived
- 36:42to crush the cause of liberty. Thousands
- 36:45of soldiers getting off those ships.
- 36:48Nobody stood a chance. But we won and we
- 36:50won decisively. Those first Americans
- 36:53knew that it is not enough merely to
- 36:55believe in great principles. We must
- 36:58also have the will and the courage and
- 37:00the strength to defend them as we gather
- 37:03in this same city two and a half
- 37:06centuries later to discuss the great
- 37:09events of our time. That is the
- 37:11challenge for every nation in this room.
- 37:16If we go forward strong and united
- 37:18against the enemies of all humanity. If
- 37:21we reject the voices who would have us
- 37:24give in to fear and doubt. If we refuse
- 37:27to shrink from our duties to our people,
- 37:31then together through bold action, we
- 37:34will make this world far safer and a far
- 37:37better place. We will leave our nations
- 37:40far stronger. We will grow our economies
- 37:44far bigger. And we will not just speak
- 37:47of peace, prosperity, and justice here
- 37:50at the United Nations. We will stand for
- 37:52them all over the world. Together, we
- 37:55will build a future for a people that is
- 37:58brighter, more hopeful, and more
- 38:00magnificent
- 38:02than ever before. Thank you. God bless
- 38:05the nations of the world, and God bless
- 38:08America. Thank you very much, everybody.
- 38:15[applause]
- 38:27On behalf of the assembly, I wish to
- 38:30thank the President of the United
- 38:32States.
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