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That's not all, Trump has completely gone off the rails at the UN assembly

Here is his whole deranged address

‘The teleprompter is not working’: Trump begins address

The US president has begun speaking, noting that the teleprompter is not working. “I can only say whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,” Trump said, to laughter.

Trump launches into familiar speech

After referencing the teleprompter not working, the US president appears to be reading from a paper copy of his speech. It has so far been very similar to the speeches he regularly makes to a domestic audience, disparaging his predecessor Joe Biden, whom he has continued to blame for woes in the US and abroad.

“Six years have passed since I last stood in this grand hall and addressed a world that was prosperous and at peace in my first term,” Trump said, referring to his first White House stint from 2017 to 2021.

“Since that day, the guns of war have shattered the peace I forged on two continents, an era of calm and stability gave way to one of the great crises of our time, and here in the United States, four years of weakness, lawlessness and radicalism under the last administration delivered our nation into a repeated set of disasters,” he said.


Trump rails against ‘illegal’ immigration

In another frequent theme, Trump is spending much time trumpeting his successes on cracking down on “illegal” immigration and is urging other countries to follow suit.

He just thanked El Salvador “for the successful and professional job they’ve done in receiving and jailing so many criminals that entered our country”. The Trump administration has come under fire and faces numerous legal challenges for its practice of sending hundreds of immigrants – mostly Venezuelans – to be detained in a Salvadoran maximum security prison.

Standing at the dais, Trump warned his fellow heads of state that their countries face the “exact same situation” and told them immigration is “destroying your country and you have to do something about it”.