![]() ![]() ![]() With or without a live audience, UNGA has come to mirror the high-speed, highly globalized and increasingly fractured world orbiting around it. More than ever, leaders seem to talk past each other. President Xi Jinping of China could see a potential trade war with Trump coming, and had spoken somewhat out of character at the World Economic Forum Davos summit earlier that year about “healing rifts.” The rifts have only grown bigger since. French President Emmanuel Macron, who had courted Trump inviting him to Bastille Day celebrations the previous year, still hoped his charm offensive would win the President’s ear on climate change and Iran. The Twittersphere lit up lampooning Trump, and at this stage of his presidency, most of the gathered dignitaries thought they had the measure of the man at the microphone. “Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK,” he said.ĭonald Trump bragged about himself to the United Nations. Other world leaders laughing, in part perhaps at what he said, part perhaps that he would say it. ![]() “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” he said.Ī ripple of amusement cascaded around the cavernous chamber. Just two years ago Trump stood at that lectern and stunned world leaders telling them what a great job he was doing. Gone will be the diplomatic pull asides, the lobbying, the power lunches and cocktail parties.īut that also means Donald Trump will miss the last turn of his first term as US President at the hallowed green granite UN podium, from which generations of world leaders have lectured the world. This year’s gathering of the global elite at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has been cramped by Covid-19: World leaders won’t flock to New York, opting instead for a virtual speech fest. ![]()
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