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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump at UN pitches himself as the world’s leader but stone-faced General Assembly isn’t buying it

President Donald Trump on Tuesday left United Nations General Assembly delegates stupefied and stunned after a 40-minute speech that meandered from false boasts about his domestic economic record to threats of annihilation against Iran to an incoherent rant about why Artificial Intelligence should be referred to as "Super Intelligence" instead.

Trump, who spoke in the customary time slot allocated to American presidents on the first day of speeches by heads of state and government at the annual gathering in New York City, appeared to have brought his usual stateside political stump speech — which often veered into State of the Union territory — to the iconic green-marble rostrum by opening his remarks with nearly 10 straight minutes of bragging about American economic and domestic conditions of no interest to the global body.

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