Overview

• In a roughly hour-long address, he said the UN funds an "assault" on Western borders, dismissed climate action as "the greatest con job," and warned European leaders "your countries are going to hell."
• He opposed recognition of a Palestinian state and urged Hamas to release all hostages, reiterating strong U.S. backing for Israel.
• He announced that the United States will lead development of an AI-driven system to verify compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention.
• On Ukraine, he blamed Chinese and Indian purchases of Russian energy and European reliance for financing the war, threatened new U.S. tariffs if Moscow resists talks, told reporters NATO states should shoot down Russian aircraft that enter their airspace, and met Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• He claimed to have ended seven wars and touted strikes on Iranian facilities as successes, assertions that others have disputed; his visit also featured an escalator stall later linked by the UN to a U.S. videographer and a Secret Service disclosure of a disrupted telecom plot using a vast SIM-card farm near the UN.