It might have been seen as an omen when the escalator got stuck — a portent that things were going to get worse. Then, when the teleprompter failed, the attendees should have taken the hint — and taken a powder.

Because what happened at yesterday’s session of the U.N. General Assembly was nothing short of a disaster, and a total humiliation for the United States.

On the other hand, perhaps it was fortuitous. What Donald Trump accomplished with his rambling, disjointed, fact-twisting, self-promoting diatribe was to provide inescapable evidence of his true character and his mental, emotional and moral disconnect from reality.

Aside from attacking what he called the ineffectiveness of the United Nations itself, he lit into our European allies for allegedly continuing to purchase Russian oil, when in fact only Hungary and Slovakia have failed to cut back on their purchases. And he saved a sizable portion of his venom to attack Europe’s immigration problems, presenting his own methods as the gold standard and saying:

“If you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border — and removing illegal aliens from the United States — they simply stopped coming.” [Kevin Liptak, CNN, September 23, 2025.]

As the granddaughter of Russian-Ukrainian immigrants, I can’t begin to tell you how glad I am that Trump wasn’t in charge in 1905 when they fled the pogroms of the Tsar and arrived seeking refuge on these shores.

Trump then segued from immigration to climate change:

“Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before … Both the immigration and suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe.” [James Landale, BBC, September 23, 2025.]

To audible gasps from the attendees, he called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. If you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail. I love Europe. I love the people of Europe. And I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake … you want to be politically correct and you are destroying your heritage.” [Id.]

And for good measure, he added this:

“All of these predictions [of the effects of climate change] made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people.”

Most puzzling were the gratuitous, totally irrelevant remarks he tossed out, apparently just for the hell of it, such as:

(In bragging about the “seven wars” he claims to have ended): “Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.” [Fareed Zakaria, CNN, September 23, 2025.]

. . . and on the environment:

“We don’t want cows anymore. I guess they want to kill all the cows.” [Kevin Liptak, CNN, op.cit.]

. . . and . . .

“In Asia, they dump much of their garbage right into the ocean.” [Id.]

. . . and, from the deep, dark recesses of his imagination:

“Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today — it’s called Christianity.” [Id.]

At some point during his immigration screed, he also included this gem, which pretty much sums it all up:

“I am really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.” [Id.]

For once, I have no further comment. Seriously . . . what is there to add?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
9/24/25