The president said global migration and climate agendas were hurting Western societies and economies.
Trump to Address UN General Assembly: Here’s What to Know
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, with the gathering focused on “peace, development, and human rights.”
Trump is expected to emphasize how “globalist institutions” such as the U.N. have weakened the global order and critique its effectiveness in resolving international conflicts.
The U.N. is facing financial difficulties after Trump ordered funding cuts to multiple U.N. organizations since taking office; he is expected to defend these decisions and present his vision for the future.
Ahead of UNGA, U.S. allies, including the UK, France, Australia, and Canada, announced they would recognize a Palestinian state. Trump is expected to criticize the move, saying it rewards Hamas.
Trump is expected to reiterate his calls to end Russian oil purchases as a means to sanction the Kremlin and end the war in Ukraine.
After his speech, Trump is expected to hold bilateral meetings with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Argentine President Javier Milei, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In the evening, he is scheduled to attend a reception with more than 100 world leaders before returning to Washington.
By Emel Akan
Zelenskyy: Trump Appears More Aligned With Ukraine Following Meeting
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that U.S. President Donald Trump appears “closer to this situation,” regarding Trump’s comments on the war in Ukraine.
According to Zelenskyy, Trump’s position has evolved, and is now more in line with the Ukrainian one. He also believes Trump is ready to offer more security guarantees to Ukraine once the war ends.
Zelenskyy said Trump might influence the course of events, while China has yet to show serious signs of wanting to play a role in ending the conflict.
“I see that Trump is a game changer, and [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping can also have influence on Russia,” he said.
Trump Called Multilateral Session ‘Most Important Meeting’ of the Day
President Donald Trump described a multilateral session he attended Tuesday, hours after his United Nations General Assembly address, as the “most important meeting of the day.”
“This is the one that’s very important to me, because we’re going to end something that you have probably never started. Thank you very much, everybody,” Trump said. “We appreciate it.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and special envoy Steve Witkoff joined the president, along with the leader of Indonesia.
UN Denies Epoch Times Press Access Amid Growing CCP Pressure Campaign on US Soil
NEW YORK CITY—The United Nations has again denied press credentials to several reporters from two American media companies—The Epoch Times and its sister network, NTD—a pattern that has repeated for more than two decades and has raised concerns of Chinese influence behind the scenes.
Epoch Times senior White House correspondent Emel Akan traveled to New York with the State Department press pool to cover activities relating to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio during the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 22.
Akan submitted her application for U.N. press credentials through the State Department and received an email confirming her slot in the press pool. The email informed her to pick up her press pass at a New York hotel where the State Department hosts side events.
By Eva Fu
US Looking for Ways to Boost Deterrence in Taiwan Strait: State Department Official
NEW YORK CITY—A senior Department of State official said on Tuesday that Taiwan remains a critical U.S. partner and that the administration is exploring a “variety of ways” to continue to support the island amid the growing threat from Beijing.
The comments came in response to a recent report by The Washington Post stating that President Donald Trump refused to sign off on more than $400 million in military assistance to Taiwan this summer.
“We’re continuing to bolster deterrence in the Taiwan Strait,” the official told reporters during a briefing on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. “The president’s made it abundantly clear that conflict, war will not happen on his watch in the Taiwan Strait, and that’s what we’re striving toward.”
By Emel Akan
Trump, Macron Disagree on Palestinian Statehood
President Donald Trump said French President Emmanuel Macron is doing a “really good job” and “fighting on a lot of fronts,” when speaking to reporters on Tuesday at the United Nations.
The president also addressed dissension with France on the conflict in Gaza.
“We’re going to talk about Gaza,” Trump said of his meeting with Macron. “We’re going to see if we can do something about it. We want to stop that. We want to get our hostages back, or their hostages back.”
Macron echoed some of Trump’s sentiment, despite France’s recognition of Palestinian statehood, saying, “Nobody forgets the seventh of October,” after a similar statement was made by Trump.
Trump Says Ukraine Can Win Back All Territory Lost to Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sept. 23 that Ukraine should go on the offensive against Russia and reclaim all occupied territories.
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
The president said that, with backing from Europe and NATO and enough time and patience, it is “very much an option” for Ukraine to drive Russian forces out and restore its borders.
“Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win,” Trump wrote. “This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like ‘a paper tiger.’”
Trump said Russia’s faltering economy, shortages at home, and growing public discontent could tip the balance further in Ukraine’s favor. He described Ukraine as having “Great Spirit” and growing stronger as the war drags on, while warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin faces “BIG Economic trouble.”
“This is the time for Ukraine to act,” Trump wrote, adding that he wishes both countries well, and that the United States would continue to supply weapons to NATO “for NATO to do what they want with them.”
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
By Tom Ozimek
Trump Meets With Zelenskyy After UN Speech
President Donald Trump spoke on whether or not the United States would back up a NATO ally that shot down a Russian aircraft in its airspace. He said it would “depend” on the circumstances.
The president made his remarks sitting alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday. The bilateral meeting followed Trump’s remarks to the U.N. General Assembly.
Trump said that he has “great respect for the fight that Ukraine is putting up. It’s pretty amazing, actually.”
Zelenskyy thanked Trump for his efforts to support Ukraine during the war, adding, “Of course, we want to solve the war.”
Trump Says Russian Aircraft Should Be Shot Down in NATO Airspace
President Donald Trump answered questions from reporters while sitting alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying Russian aircraft should not be tolerated in NATO airspace.
When asked directly whether he believes a NATO nation should shoot down a Russian aircraft that enters its airspace, Trump said, “Yes, I do.”
Trump Praises EU President Von der Leyen
President Donald Trump spoke with European Union President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday after his address to the U.N. General Assembly.
Trump said it was a “great honor” to speak to von der Leyen, calling her a friend who “does a fantastic job running lots of different nations.”
UN Was Best Forum to Spotlight Immigration and Climate Agenda: Trump
Trump called it a “great honor” to speak to the United Nations on Tuesday, saying in a post on Truth Social that it was the “absolute best” forum to address the issues of energy and immigration.
“The teleprompter was broken and the escalator came to a sudden halt as we were [riding] up to the podium, but both of those events probably made the speech more interesting than it would have been otherwise,” he said.
Trump Endorses Argentina’s Milei for Reelection
President Donald Trump endorsed Argentine President Javier Milei for reelection, shortly after addressing the United Nations on Tuesday.
“I’m doing something I don’t often do, I’m giving my full endorsement to him … we’re backing him 100 percent. He, like us, inherited a mess, and what he’s done to fix it is good,” Trump said.
“We need to make Argentina great again. So it’s an honor for me to endorse.”
Milei thanked Trump for his endorsement before the U.S. president went on to say: “We’re going to help them, but I don’t think they need a bailout. He’s doing a fantastic job.”
Trump Tells UN Chief US Is 100 Percent Behind the Global Organization
President Donald Trump spoke with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres shortly after addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
The president said, “Our country is behind the United Nations 100 percent,” and said he believes the potential of the U.N. is “incredible.”
“It can do so much. I’m behind it. I may disagree with it sometimes, but I am so behind it. … The potential for peace with this institution is so great,” he said.
Guterres called the United States “essential” to the U.N. He lauded Trump’s work toward peace, saying, “We are entirely at your disposal to work together toward a just peace.”
Trump to Meet Brazil’s Lula Next Week
President Donald Trump said he would meet with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva next week to address political tensions between the nations.
Trump said that he and the Brazilian president spoke briefly before his address to the U.N. General Assembly.
“I saw him, he saw me, and we embraced,” Trump said after comments about tariffs Brazil faces “in response to its unprecedented efforts to interfere in the rights and freedoms of our American citizens and others.”
“We actually agreed that we would meet next week.”
Trump has imposed retaliatory tariffs on Brazil and sanctioned some Brazilian officials following the conviction of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, on Sept. 11.
US Bans Iranian Officials From Shopping at Costco, Sam’s Club While Attending UN
The U.S. Department of State on Sept. 22 barred diplomats from Iran from visiting stores such as Costco, Sam’s Club, and BJ’s Wholesale Club while in the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.
The State Department issued a statement indicating that Iranian diplomats working at the U.N. headquarters would not be able to access “wholesale club stores and luxury goods” while in the country. The Iranian officials would also be restricted in their movements through the United States, with them being limited to “areas strictly necessary to transit to and from the UN headquarters district to conduct their official UN business.”
“We will not allow the Iranian regime to allow its clerical elites to have a shopping spree in New York while the Iranian people endure poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and dire shortages of water and electricity,” Thomas Pigott, a Department of State spokesperson, said in a statement. “The United States will not allow the Iranian regime to use [U.N. General Assembly] as an excuse to travel freely in New York to promote its terrorist agenda.”
By Arjun Singh
Trump: Immigration and Green Energy Are ‘Destroying’ the Free World
President Donald Trump ended his comments to the United Nations, saying that “Immigration and the high cost of so-called green renewable energy is destroying a large part of the free world.”
The president recapped the main themes of his address, saying that strong borders and traditional energy sources are necessary for the strength of nations, regardless of location.
“From London to Lima, from Rome to Athens, from Paris to Seoul, from Cairo to Tokyo, and Amsterdam to right here in New York City, we stand on the shoulders of the leaders and legends, generals and giants, heroes and titans, who won and built our beloved nations. … They were champions for their people who never gave up and who never, ever gave in,” Trump said.
The president encouraged his fellow world leaders, saying each was entrusted with the “righteous task of protecting the nations that they built.”
Trump Denounces Globalism as a System That Makes Successful Nations Inflict Pain on Themselves
In the second half of his U.N. speech, President Donald Trump focused new criticism on globalism, which he described as a concept that compels successful developed nations to hurt themselves.
Trump said the “globalist migration agenda” has resulted in the mass trafficking of children across international borders.
Globalism has placed a larger burden on developed nations to reduce their impact on the environment, he said, while other nations continue to pollute heavily.
Trump noted data showing that the United States, where air conditioning systems are relatively common, records around 1,300 heat-related deaths annually. By contrast, he noted there are around 175,000 heat-related deaths annually across Europe, where air conditioning systems are uncommon.
“The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally, and it must be immediate,” Trump said.
By Ryan Morgan
Trump Calls Out System Involved in Mass Child Trafficking
President Donald Trump underscored the United States’ efforts to control illegal immigration, referencing nearly 30,000 children who have been sent back to their families.
“We’ve been sending them back to their parents,” Trump said of minors who crossed the border illegally. He said that in many cases, the children were not with a family member, and their parents were elated to have their child returned to them.
“Any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil, yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done.”
Trump Urges Countries to Take Strict Stance on Illegal Immigration
President Donald Trump called out the United Nations for “funding an assault on Western countries” by offering cash support, food, shelter, and other assistance to migrants.
Trump said that Europe is in “serious trouble.”
“They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe,” he said.
The president went on to say that the current system is unsustainable.
“And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it,” Trump said.
“It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now.”
Trump Says He’ll Talk With NATO Allies About Cutting Off Energy Purchases From Russia
As he spoke to the United Nations about his efforts to negotiate an end to multiple conflicts around the world, President Donald
Trump noted that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine remains elusive. Further, he expressed frustration that many NATO allies remain economically tied to Russia.
“Inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products,” Trump said.
The U.S. president said he stands ready to impose harsh new tariffs targeting Russia if he decides Moscow isn’t ready to make a deal to end the more than three-year conflict.
By Ryan Morgan
Trump Recalls His Construction Bid for UN
During his Tuesday address to the United Nations, President Donald Trump recalled “many years ago” when a “very successful real estate developer … known as Donald J Trump” bid on the renovation of the United Nations complex.
Trump said that he put in a bid of $500 million to rebuild the entire area, saying it would have been “beautiful.”
“But they decided to go in another direction, which was much more expensive at the time, which actually produced a far inferior product,” the president said, citing concerns with the materials used and the building concepts.
“They had massive cost overruns and spent between $2 [billion] and $4 billion on the building, and did not even get the marble floors that I promised them.”
By Ryan Morgan
In UN Speech, Trump Touts Peace Deals Without International Body’s Help
President Donald Trump, in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, claimed credit for ending seven wars, and with little to no help from the international body.
“I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal,” Trump said. “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, on the way up, stopped right in the middle.”
In all, Trump said his administration was critical in brokering deals to end armed conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand; Kosovo and Serbia; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Pakistan and India; Israel and Iran; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“The U.N. has such tremendous potential. I’ve always said it. It has such tremendous, tremendous potential, but it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential for the most part,” Trump said.
“At least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war.”
By Ryan Morgan
Trump Touts Domestic Achievements
Trump told those gathered at the United Nations that he built the “greatest economy in the history of the world” during his first term and that he’s doing “the same thing again” in his second term.
“This is indeed the golden age of America, we are rapidly reversing the economic calamity we inherited from the previous administration,” Trump said.
The president cited a decrease in costs, including gasoline, groceries, mortgage rates, and inflation.
“The only thing that’s up is the stock market, which just hit a record high,” he said.
Trump also said that manufacturing is “booming” and wages are “rising at the fastest pace in more than 60 years.”
Trump Jokes About Teleprompter, Escalator Not Working
President Donald Trump greeted foreign leaders and dignitaries at the United Nations with jokes about the teleprompter and escalator not functioning properly at the organization’s New York City building.
“I don’t mind making the speech without a teleprompter,” Trump said.
“I can only say whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.”
He later laughingly thanked the U.N. for a broken escalator, which he joked could have injured the first lady.
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” Trump said.
The teleprompter then began functioning properly.
Secret Service Dismantles Electronic Network Posing Threat to Officials at UN Gathering
The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct anonymous threats against senior U.S. government officials, the agency said in a Sept. 23 statement.
The devices—an assortment of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards spread across multiple sites—were discovered to be concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the U.N. General Assembly currently underway in New York City.
World leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are expected to speak at the event.
Rubio Says Trump Will Call on UN to Act
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he believes President Donald Trump, in his Tuesday address, will call on the United Nations to act on crises instead of debating them.
“I think what the president’s going to do is challenge the U.N. to find its meaning and its purpose and its utility as an organization because it doesn’t seem to be doing the job,” Rubio said during a Tuesday morning interview on “Fox and Friends.”
Rubio also said the U.N. had become a “feckless” organization, adding that it “has a lot of potential, but it’s not living up to it right now.”
Trump to Address UN General Assembly: Here’s What to Know
NEW YORK—President Donald Trump is returning to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) in the Big Apple on Tuesday for his first address since 2020. Here’s what to expect from his speech and key agenda items at this year’s gathering:
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, with the gathering focused on “peace, development, and human rights.”
Trump is expected to emphasize how “globalist institutions” such as the U.N. have weakened the global order and critique its effectiveness in resolving international conflicts.
The U.N. is facing financial difficulties after Trump ordered funding cuts to multiple U.N. organizations since taking office; he is expected to defend these decisions and present his vision for the future.
Ahead of UNGA, U.S. allies, including the UK, France, Australia, and Canada, announced they would recognize a Palestinian state. Trump is expected to criticize the move, saying it rewards Hamas.
Trump is expected to reiterate his calls to end Russian oil purchases as a means to sanction the Kremlin and end the war in Ukraine.
After his speech, Trump is expected to hold bilateral meetings with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Argentine President Javier Milei, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In the evening, he is scheduled to attend a reception with more than 100 world leaders before returning to Washington.
By Emel Akan
Trump Set to Speak at UN as Allies Recognize Palestinian Statehood
NEW YORK CITY—President Donald Trump will take the international stage this week to address the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23 in New York City. The question of Palestinian statehood is expected to dominate this year’s meeting, with world leaders closely watching Trump’s speech, given his opposition to the proposal.On Sept. 21, the UK, Australia, Canada, and Portugal announced that they will formally recognize Palestinian statehood, joining nearly 150 countries that already have done so.
On Sept. 22, France and Saudi Arabia co-hosted a conference at which French President Emmanuel Macron announced France’s recognition of a Palestinian state. Macron earlier said that it is a necessary move to help end Israel’s conflict with the Hamas terrorist group that began with the latter’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Other Western nations that were expected to follow suit ahead of the General Assembly included Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and San Marino.
By Emel Akan
