Trump’s U.N. Speech Was a Global Embarrassment
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Sarah Longwell here, publisher of the bulwark, and I am joined today by boy wonder, |
| 0:05.4 | Andrew Eger. He watched Donald Trump's UN speech, of which I have only seen a couple of clips. |
| 0:12.9 | And so he is going to walk us through what was another Bar-Burner insane, 25th Amendment time kind of thing from Trump. |
| 0:23.7 | And he's going to show us all some of the highlights. |
| 0:25.4 | And we're going to talk about them. |
| 0:26.4 | So, Andrew, take it away. |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.6 | So I don't know if you remember, Sarah, very early in Trump's first term, there was like a |
| 0:33.4 | specific moment where he goes to the United Nations and he's given his normal kind of like super |
| 0:39.1 | braggadocious barn burner like I'm doing great the country's so back under me speech and there |
| 0:44.1 | are a couple moments when like the assembled other delegates they laugh at him they laugh at him yeah |
| 0:49.1 | and he like he's kind of taken aback by that and he like makes a joke but he's like plainly not |
| 0:53.2 | expecting it. |
| 0:54.6 | My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our |
| 1:00.9 | country. |
| 1:03.9 | America's so true. Didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay. |
| 1:14.5 | And that just kept going through my head over and over again as I was watching this speech |
| 1:19.1 | because we're in a very different place now, right? |
| 1:22.2 | Like before, in the first Trump term, everyone around the world was kind of like, |
| 1:26.4 | huh, this is sort of weird, you know, like, what's up? What's going on over there in America? They're, they got some problems. They need to sort out. They just elected this goofball president. But like, all the normal, like, processes and, and things were kind of still in place. The institutions were still holding up. And now we're, you know, eight months into this guy's second term. He has blown up like |
| 1:46.4 | half of the institutions that like kind of unite us with the world in a lot of ways. He's been |
| 1:51.5 | crazy on NATO. He's been like insane on global trade. You know, he's he's just been been taking |
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