Trump addresses the UN General Assembly, Part 1

President Trump addressed the 2025 United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 23:

• Prior to his address, as the president and first lady were stepping onto the up escalator in the United Nations building on Tuesday morning, it suddenly stopped. Providentially, Mrs. Trump caught herself and then proceeded to walk up the stopped elevator, accompanied by the president.
• Soon after, as President Trump began his speech, the teleprompter “broke” and he had to read from his paper notes, which led to sometimes ad libbing. After about 10 minutes, the teleprompter appeared to have been fixed.
• The president’s speech was approximately 56 minutes in length and covered multiple topics. There are two segments below.
• Watch and read the text of each clip from President Trump’s speech, and then answer the questions.

Segment #1:  On the Ukraine/Russia war (read the text below the video as you listen):

The only question now is how many more lives will be needlessly lost on both sides?

China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil.

But inexcusably even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products. Which as you know I found out two weeks ago and I wasn’t happy. Think of it, they are funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that one?

In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of powerful tariffs which would stop the bloodshed, I believe very quickly.

But for those tariffs to be effective, European nations, all of you are gathered here right now, would have to join us in adopting the exact same measures. I mean, you are much closer to this, we have an ocean in between, you are right there and Europe has to step it up. They can’t be doing what they’re doing. They are buying oil and gas from Russia. While they are fighting Russia.

It is embarrassing to them and it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it, I can tell you that. They have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia.

Otherwise we’re all wasting a lot of time. So I’m ready to discuss this, we’re going to discuss it today with the European nations all gathered here.

I’m sure they are thrilled to hear me speak about it, but that’s the way it is, I like to speak my mind and speak the truth.

Segment #2:  The crisis of uncontrolled migration:

Not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should, too often, it is actually creating new problems for us to solve. The best example is the number one political issue of our time, the crisis of uncontrolled migration, it is uncontrolled.

Your countries are being ruined, the United Nations is funding an assault on western countries and their borders.

In 2024, the U.N. budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States. Think of that. The U.N. is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States and then we have to get them out.

The U.N. also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens. Can you believe that? On the way to infiltrate our southern border.

Millions of people came through that southern border just a year ago, millions and millions of people were pouring in twenty-five million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration and now we have it stopped, totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through. But what took place is totally unacceptable. The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions not create them and not finance them.

In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety net. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people and I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens, as well.  You have to do that because I see it. I’m not mentioning names, I see it and I could call every single one of them out, you’re destroying your countries, they’re being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before.

Illegal aliens are pouring in to Europe and nobody is doing anything to change it, to get them out. It is not sustainable and because they choose to be politically correct, they are doing just absolutely nothing about it.

And I have to say, I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor. And it’s been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you are in a different country, you can’t do that.

Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. They cannot, this cannot be sustained.

What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique. But to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders, you have the right to control your borders as we do now and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering their countries and paid for by the people of that nation that were there and that built that particular nation at the time. They put their blood, sweat, tears, money into that country. And now they’re being ruined.

Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before with different customs, religions, with different everything. Where migrants have violated laws, lodged false asylum claims or claimed refugee status for illegitimate reasons, they should in many cases be immediately sent home and while we will always have a big heart for places and people that are struggling and are truly compassionate, answers will be given, we have to solve the problem and we have to solve it in their countries not create new problems in our countries, and we are very helpful to a lot of countries that are just not able to send their people anymore.

They used to send them to us in caravans of 25-30,000 people each, these massive caravans of people pouring into our country, totally unchecked and unvetted. But not anymore.

According to the Council of Europe in 2024, almost 50 percent of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants – in Austria, the number is 53 percent of people in prisons were from places that weren’t from where they are now.

In Greece, the number was 54 percent and in Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72 percent of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and that’s what they did, they repaid kindness with crime, it’s time to end failed experiment of open borders, you have to end it now, I can tell you.

I’m really good at this stuff, 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, they are not coming anymore. …