Trump calls climate change the ‘greatest con job’
While Guterres and Lula both used their speeches to draw attention to the climate catastrophe, Trump is using his to attack the very foundation of climate science.
He claimed climate change is the “greatest con job ever perpetuated on the world” and called it a “fake energy catastrophe”.
“The carbon footprint is a hoax, made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction.”
Trump has now spoken for more than 45 minutes, triple his allotted time.
Trump says his administration will lead biological weapons enforcement
Trump has pledged that his administration will lead an international effort to enforce a biological weapons convention by pioneering an AI verification system.
“I’m … calling on every nation to join us in ending the development of biological weapons once and for all,” he said. “Hopefully, the UN can play a constructive role.”
AI + biological weapons + Trump, well that's it, world is doomed.
‘Green scam’ will cause countries to ‘fail’: Trump
The US president has gone on a tirade against clean energy policies, spending several minutes of his speech attacking practices meant to tackle the climate crisis.
Besides calling climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, Trump also called renewable energy a joke as well as expensive and ineffective.
“If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”
‘Your countries are going to hell’: Trump on migration
The US president appeared to be speaking to European countries, naming Germany, Greece and Switzerland.
Trump accused several countries of taking part in an “open borders experiment”, despite all having strict migration laws.
“Your countries are going to hell. In America, we’ve taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming,” he said.
Trump also hailed US military strikes on alleged drug smuggling in the Caribbean, which rights groups say constitute extrajudicial killings.
“To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence,” he said.
Trump blasts UN, tells Europe 'your countries are going to hell' in speech to the General Assembly