Overview

• In a combative U.N. General Assembly address, President Donald Trump announced a new U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate pact, exits from multiple U.N. agencies, and a halt to funding.
• Trump castigated the United Nations as ineffective, claimed credit for ending seven “unendable wars,” and dismissed U.N.-backed climate measures as a hoax.
• After the speech, Trump met Secretary-General António Guterres and said the United States stands behind the United Nations 100 percent.
• Trump also met Vladimir Putin in a bid to mediate the war in Ukraine, but no ceasefire was secured.
• Editorial reactions warned of a widening U.S.–Europe rift over Gaza and pressed for U.N. reforms as funding pressures grow in the organization’s 80th year.