Overview
- In a Sept. 23 address at the United Nations, Trump said Christianity is “the most persecuted religion on the planet today.”
- He urged countries to defend free speech, protect religious liberty, and safeguard national sovereignty ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
- He alleged the U.N. budgeted $372 million in 2024 to support an estimated 624,000 migrants traveling to the United States, citing food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards.
- He said U.S. prisons are “filled with so-called asylum-seekers” who “repaid kindness with crime” and called to end what he termed a “failed experiment of open borders.”
- The message tracks with domestic moves including a White House Religious Liberty Commission and a promised Education Department guidance on school prayer that remains without public details as civil-liberties groups object.