Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Tirades at UN Rattle Experts: “Really Crazy”

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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President Trump gave a speech to the United Nations on Tuesday that was a geopolitical and psychological dumpster fire. In addition to signaling absolute contempt for our allies and for global institutions, he slipped into angry and solipsistic grievance. He boasted about his polling, seethed that he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, threatened to unshackle the U.S. military from international law, sent convoluted signals about NATO, lied endlessly about his domestic achievements, and bizarrely commanded other nations to cease combatting climate change. Many observers expressed alarm. We got to thinking: What if the self-obsessed craziness is itself the message the world receives about the United States? So we talked to international relations professor Nicholas Grossman, one of our favorite commentators on global affairs. He suggests other nations will conclude that Trump is “really crazy” and that the U.S. is an unreliable actor for the foreseeable future, explores why this could be so damaging, and explains why the prospects for a future president repairing this fiasco are grim. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.4	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
1:18.7	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Donald Trump gave a speech to the United Nations on Tuesday that was really strange,
1:33.5	both geopolitically and psychologically. He offered up what you might call a Trumpist vision of the world,
1:39.8	but combined it with some really bizarre personal obsessions and boasts.
1:50.7	This got us thinking, what if the self-obsessed craziness from Trump is itself the key message the world will receive about the United States?
1:53.8	Many nations were closely monitoring what Trump said today, but what if they look at the
1:58.5	fact that we elected this man president as a sign of just how
2:02.2	unreliable an actor in the world the United States has become? I've got to think that many
2:07.9	countries around the world are still hoping for something better from us. Should they just give up
2:12.7	at this point? And if so, what does that mean? We're trying to parse our way through all of this with International Relations Professor Nicholas Grossman, one of our favorite observers of global affairs.
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