Donald Trump launched an extraordinary rant against Europe today, telling leaders: “Your countries are going to hell.”
In a speech to the United Nations, he said immigration was ruining European countries and urged Keir Starmer to open more oil fields in the North Sea, as he declared global warming a “hoax.” He doubled down on his feud with Sadiq Khan, making a baseless allegation that the London Mayor was trying to impose Sharia law in the capital.
He said the UN was “not living up to its potential” and suggested it operates in a corrupt manner. Mr Trump arrived on stage complaining that the teleprompter was broken, and that an escalator had broken down on his way into the building. Delegates and observers chuckled as he recounted having bid on the contract to refurbish the United Nations HQ in New York.
Donald Trump ranted against Europe and the UN during a rambling speech to the UN General Assembly (
AP)
“Many years ago a very successful real estate developer in New York known as Donald J Trump, I bid on the refurbishment of this very building,” he said. “I’m going to give you marble floors, they’re going to give you terrazzo. I’m going to give you the best of everything, you’re going to have mahogany walls. They’re going to give you plastic”
He went on: “They spent between $2 and $4 billion and didn’t even get the marble floors I was promising. Looking at the building and getting stuck on the escalator…they still haven’t finished the job.”
Donald Trump appeared at the UN General Assembly gathering in New York (
AFP via Getty Images)
He claimed the bidding process was “so corrupt” that he had been asked to testify in a court case about the matter. He said: “Unfortunately many things in the United Nations are happening just like that but on a much bigger scale, it’s sad to see.”
He listed the seven wars he claims to have prevented or ended, but criticised the UN for “failing” to offer to help.
“It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the UN doing them,” he said. “And sadly in all cases the UN did not even try to help in any of them. I never even received a phone call from the UN offering to help in finalising the deal.”
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He went on: “All I got from the UN was an escalator that stopped in the middle, if the First Lady hadn’t been in great shape she would have fallen. And now a teleprompter that doesn’t work. That’s what I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.”
The US President added: “What is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential…but it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential. For the most part all they do is write a strongly worded letter.”
Trump also took a swipe at Europe over immigration, saying: “You’re countries are going to hell.
He said: “Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before and nobody’s doing anything to get them out. It’s not sustainable.
He took aim at London Mayor Sadiq Khan, with whom he has a long-running feud. He said: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
