Overview

• In a roughly hourlong General Assembly address, Trump castigated the UN as ineffective, attacked open-border policies and green energy, and urged Hamas to release hostages.
• Trump complained about a stopped escalator and faulty teleprompter; a UN official said a member of his delegation triggered the escalator’s safety stop and that the White House operated the teleprompter, a version the White House disputed while calling for an investigation.
• The U.S. Secret Service disclosed it had disrupted a telecommunications-related plot involving a weaponized farm of more than 100,000 cellphone SIM cards capable of blocking communications near the UN, citing nation-state actors.
• On the sidelines, Trump met with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other leaders, and later posted that Ukraine is “in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back,” signaling a harder public line on the war.
• He criticized recent recognitions of Palestinian statehood by U.S. allies as a “reward” for Hamas and promoted U.S. fossil-fuel and nuclear energy supplies to partners.