President Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly was always going to be a notable one. The global community was poised for a unifying factor that made every world leader join hands in dealing with our very similar issues — Trump was not that. In between complaining about escalators, he went on to blame China for the air pollution in the US.
Trump tried his best to tie in everything to his administration’s anxieties about immigration and landed on how his strong borders can’t prevent pollution. It’s worth noting that Trump also went on a diatribe about how climate change is a hoax — a claim he has repeatedly made, but on this particular point he was talking to the UN, explaining how the pollution in the air, which he still insisted was clean, was somehow not his fault.
