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Because they made the mistake of sabotaging his escalator and then his prompter, the President of the United States opened up a supersized can of geopolitical whup-ass on the UN General Assembly this week, pithily summarised by many headline-writers thus:Trump's middle finger to the UN: 'Your countries are going to hell'In fairness, this insight was mainly directed at America's "allies" in Europe. The particular hell they are going to will not be news to those who've swung by this shingle over the last twenty-three years, but I thought it might be worth doing a brisk tour d'horizon of where we're...

Watched by the world, President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations on Tuesday, delivering a blistering rebuke of his predecessor and the U.N. "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 at the outset of his speech, despite a broken teleprompter. "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...

Today, in remarks to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald J. Trump delivered a powerful rebuke to the destructive globalism that has fueled endless conflict and chaos around the world. During the address, President Trump was unapologetic in proclaiming American strength as he unveiled a bold vision for sovereign nations to unite against the true threats of terrorism, unchecked migration, biological warfare, and loss of cultural identity.Here are highlights from President Trump’s speech:“America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any nation...

Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, his ideology in its rawest form. To his supporters, it will be seen as Trumpism unplugged; to his critics, Trumpism unhinged. Over almost an hour, he took aim at his opponents and their ideas, picking them off one by one as he toured the world. He began at home, praising the United States and himself. He said the US was living through a golden age and repeated his much-disputed claim that he had personally ended seven wars, something he argued...

As Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City intensifies, the UN Human Rights Council has once again leveled accusations of genocide against the Jewish state. Their newly released 72-page report, produced by a commission riddled with members already on record as anti-Israel, ignores Hamas’s crimes and skews casualty data to present a distorted narrative. Behind the headlines, the reality on the ground tells a very different story. In this episode of Basic Law, we cut through the noise clouding global discourse on Israel’s war of survival. Host Aylana Meisel is joined by John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the...

Along comes the hard-left Guardian US to save the day with an article by Adrienne Matei entitled "From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home." It's a l-o-n-g and rambling piece, but one thing can be said in its favor: it doesn't lack a sense of humor. Thus, a "cultural historian" is quoted as saying: “There’s been a reluctance to name this moment as fascism.”Right! So much reluctance that Googling "Trump fascism" yields only 20.4 million results in 0.33 seconds. Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels makes an appearance before long, and sure enough, Trump's "pro-natalist" policies...

French President Emmanuel Macron wants to pull off a grand diplomatic coup on Monday by collecting several Western countries together to recognize a Palestinian state, but he’s a long way from delivering a genuine breakthrough in Gaza. The limits to what he can achieve at the United Nations General Assembly are clear. European heavyweights like Germany and Italy will not be joining his initiative and there’s little prospect his efforts can sway U.S. President Donald Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war. The big idea in New York is to trumpet the recognition of Palestinian statehood...

Emmanuel Macron was humbled this week after New York City cops stopped his vehicle and forced him to wait on the street to make way for Donald Trump's motorcade. Footage shows the perplexed French president stranded on a road moments after he left the UN headquarters in the Big Apple on Monday. 'I'm really sorry, Mr President, everything is frozen', a police officer can be heard telling Macron. The French leader then proceeded to take matters into his own hands, and was shown in a separate video calling his American counterpart on the phone. 'Guess what, I'm waiting in the...

When I write about our favorite president, I often recall the CNN headline from May 11, 2017, “Trump gets 2 scoops of ice cream, everyone else gets 1.”2 presidencies, everybody else not named Grover Cleveland gets 1. President Trump went to New York to address the United Nations. He is footloose and carefree. Trump was among the leaders of nations speaking at the UN this week.He was the only world leader.Eli David tweeted:Priceless: Police in New York stop Macron’s car because the street is closed for Trumps convoy.Macron calls Trump to allow him to pass, but Trump humiliates Macron and...

The United Nations issued a statement about the mishap, saying that the elevator stopping might have been triggered for safety as a videographer was standing backwards ahead of the president trying to film him. "The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing. The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function described above," the U.N. statement said. “Our technician, who was at the location, reset the escalator as soon as the delegation had climbed up to the second floor. A subsequent investigation, including a readout of the...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional.... Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.... In recent months, U.N. offices in New York and Geneva have intermittently turned off elevators and escalators as part of steps to save money because of a “liquidity crisis” at the world body. That’s due in...

An escalator malfunction and frozen teleprompter disrupted President Trump’s marquee address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, prompting him to improvise. The escalator carrying Trump en route to deliver his remarks had abruptly stalled shortly after the president set foot on it, forcing him to walk up it. Then, after making his way to the podium, Trump revealed his teleprompter wasn’t working. “I don’t mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter is not working,” Trump began, looking a little irked, drawing laughter. “I feel very happy to be up here with you, nevertheless — and...

In the least surprising news of the day, White House resident Joe Biden was caught entirely off guard and face-planted when forced to improvise during a press conference. Biden on Tuesday delivered remarks about his decision-making on the U.S. economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. This comes as his fellow Democrats have blasted him for letting Trump take the spotlight on this issue and many others. But misfortune ensued for Biden when the Teleprompter he was reading went out, or in Biden’s words, “lost electricity.” He struggled to spit out his words for several seconds, undoubtedly confusing the...

Democrat appointee nominee Kamala Harris is half-credible (that’s being generous) when she can read words off a teleprompter and simply repeat canned lines that she’s rehearsed over and over. But when she’s pushed off-script—hoo boy, is she bad. Unlike her opponent Donald Trump, who can speak about anything at any time, she just seems lost without her prepared remarks displayed in front of her. As we rush on ever closer to election day, the vice president is on the campaign trail, but she looked like an unhinged looney tune when confronted with protesters at a rally in Nevada Thursday. Watch...

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In an effort to prove she could handle an unscripted interview Vice-President Kamala Harris appeared on a Univision town hall this week. In the midst of Kamala's efforts to dodge a voter's concerns that she became the Democrats' nominee without getting any primary votes, the camera swiveled to an angle showing the teleprompter the candidate was reading. Harris/Walz Campaign Chairwoman Jennifer O'Malley Dillon explained "using a teleprompter doesn't mean the interview was scripted. As we all saw, neither the voter nor Kamala had a script in their hands. The teleprompter simply allows the candidate's brain-trust to suggest possible answers for...

The moderator of Thursday night’s Univision town hall with Kamala Harris is pushing back on claims that she used a Teleprompter at the event. Figures such as Sean Hannity and Bill Ackman have advanced the claim, even though the Teleprompter text was written in Spanish. Enrique Acevedo, the moderator, wrote on X on Thursday evening, “The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue.” Daniel Coronell, president of Univision News, also posted, “The teleprompter that displays a text written in Spanish was a support element for the...

Kamala Harris got caught using a teleprompter during Thursday night’s Univision town hall in Las Vegas. Harris pandered to Latina voters by participating in a town hall hosted by Univision. The internal polls for Harris must be horrific. Of course, Kamala Harris had to use a teleprompter because she has no clue what she’s talking about. Univision panicked after they realized they showed Kamala Harris’s teleprompter live on air. As soon as the camera panned behind Kamala Harris, the teleprompter went black. But it was too late. WATCH:

Kamala Harris got caught using a teleprompter during Thursday night’s Univision town hall in Las Vegas. Harris pandered to Latina voters by participating in a town hall hosted by Univision. The internal polls for Harris must be horrific. Of course, Kamala Harris had to use a teleprompter because she has no clue what she’s talking about. Univision panicked after they realized they showed Kamala Harris’s teleprompter live on air. As soon as the camera panned behind Kamala Harris, the teleprompter went black. But it was too late. WATCH: BREAKING: Univision accidentally broadcast proof that Kamala used a teleprompter at her...

Kamala Harris was left repeating the same phrase after her teleprompter appeared to malfunction in an embarrassing gaffe at a Michigan rally. The Vice President was speaking to a crowd in Flint when the system appeared to glitch. 'Remember his number 32 today? We got 32 days until the election,' Harris says.