President Trump finally did what other American presidents have failed to do: he opened a can of verbal whoop ass on the United Nations.

He blasted the U.N. for funding illegal immigration to the United States and many European nations and took it to task for a litany of other failures.

“The UN is funding an assault on Western countries,” Trump told a stunned National Assembly audience. “What is the purpose of the United Nations? It’s not even coming close to living up to [its] potential.”

It was about time an American president called out the world body for its slothful and largely ineffective attempts to stop global conflicts, human trafficking, hunger, and corruption on the planet.

Trump called the U.N. an outdated, ineffective organization, adding that he has worked to end “seven wars” without any help.

 

“It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them,” Trump said. “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.”

Is anybody surprised? I’m not.

When I was a kid growing up in Kansas, I was told that the U.N. was humanity’s best hope for creating a peaceful and prosperous world.

When I joined the U.S. Army, I began to see just how ineffective the U.N. is. During my career as a foreign correspondent, I encountered various U.N. agencies worldwide—most of them inept and corrupt.

Trump didn’t pull any punches in his ass-whooping speech.

“The number one political issue of our time [is] the crisis of uncontrolled migration,” he said. “Your countries are being ruined,” he added. The president slammed the U.N. for the support it provided to millions of invading illegal migrants who inundated borders across the world.

 

“In 2024, the U.N. budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support migrants journeying into the United States,” the president said from the podium. “The U.N. also provided food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards to illegal aliens on the way to infiltrate our southern border.

“What took place is totally unacceptable. The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them,” he continued. “In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime, and deplete our social safety nets. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people. And I encourage all countries to take their own stance in defense of their citizens, as well.”

Amen to that, brother.

Trump said that Europe is in “serious trouble,” adding that “European nations have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. It’s not sustainable.”

He decried the lack of effort by Western governments to stop the invasions of their borders, adding that “because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it.”

You could have heard a pin drop in the vast National Assembly chamber. The look of abject shock and distress on the faces of the assembled U.N. envoys and others in the hall was priceless.

 

No American president had ever chastised and upbraided them like this before—at least not in person.

But Trump wasn’t finished.

He zeroed in on the U.K. and Germany—both of which are dealing with floods of migrants, many of them illegal. He lamented and bemoaned how the city of London has been altered by the “terrible, terrible” Mayor Sadiq Khan. “Now they want to go to Sharia law. It will be the death of Europe” if countries there don’t start controlling their borders.”

Trump said Western nations are compassionate and certainly want to help less stable regions of the world fix their problems, but “we have to solve them in their countries, not create new problems in our own countries.”

To illustrate his point, Trump noted that “In 2024, almost 50 percent of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or illegal migrants. In Austria, the number was 53 percent of the people in prisons” who were migrants. “In Greece, the number was 54 percent, and in Switzerland, 72 percent of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland.”

Trump’s visit to the U.N. didn’t get off to a great start. The escalator that he and First Lady Melania stepped on stopped working, and the pair had to walk up to the second floor. Then, as he began his speech, he informed the audience that the teleprompter was also not working.

“Not a good look,” he quipped, adding that he felt sorry for the person in charge of the teleprompter.

Trump was undaunted and continued his speech by reading from a binder containing his remarks. A few minutes later, he informed the audience that the teleprompter had been restored to working order.

At several points during his one-hour stemwinder, Trump addressed climate change, calling it a hoax and denouncing the U.N.’s role in perpetuating it. He added that uncontrolled migration was more dangerous than climate change.

“Countries that cherish freedom are fading fast because of their policies on these two subjects. You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you are going to be great again,” Trump said. Then he bluntly added: “Your countries are going to hell.

“The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally, and it must be immediate,” Trump said.

It was a refreshing departure from the kinds of namby-pamby addresses most American presidents make at the U.N.

In a column I wrote a while back, I pointed out that the United States was one of the 51 founding members of the organization. Still, an increasing number of Americans are beginning to wonder how much longer the U.S. will put up with the U.N.’s noticeably anti-American policies.

The U.S. bankrolls nearly 22 percent of the U.N.’s annual budget and 25 percent of the U.N.’s annual peacekeeping budget—collectively, about $13 billion.

Legislation for the United States to withdraw from the U.N.  has been introduced in Congress for decades.

Most recently, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2019 (H.R. 204) was introduced in 2019 by Alabama’s Republican Congressman Mike Rogers.

In addition to removing the U.S. government from the UN and evicting its headquarters from U.S. soil, the Rogers Act would terminate American involvement in the full range of UN agreements and agencies and prohibit the deployment of U.S. troops under UN command.

“The UN continues to attack our greatest Mideast ally, Israel, and they continue to attack American ideals like the Second Amendment,” Rogers said, echoing frequent criticisms of the U.N. that is widely referred to as the “dictators club” by critics.

What are we to make of the UN’s attitudes toward Israel–the nation that saw 1,400 of its men, women, and children slaughtered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023?

Here’s a hint. The United Nations General Assembly passed more resolutions critical of Israel than against all other nations combined in 2022– plainly a disproportionate focus on the Jewish state.

 

The General Assembly approved 15 anti-Israel resolutions in 2022, compared to 13 resolutions criticizing other countries, according to UN Watch.

No doubt, President Trump clearly is aware of these anti-American and anti-Israel attitudes at the U.N., and during his speech, he let them know it in no uncertain terms.

All of which leads me to something that North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis once said:

“If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.”

I suspect Donald Trump is also mindful that if it weren’t for U.S. government support and funding, the U.N. would have disappeared decades ago.

He was more conciliatory after his talk as he sat down with Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who described American leadership as “essential,” to the U.N. and the world.

“It (the U.N.) can do so much. I’m behind it,” Trump said. “I may disagree with it sometimes, but I am still behind it.”

Those in the audience who were the targets of Trump’s hour-long verbal ass whooping probably find that hard to believe.

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