WATCH: President Trump Returns to the United Nations

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President Trump returned to the UN yesterday with one of the most remarkable records of success that any President has ever amassed: North Korea is no longer launching rockets and issuing threats; the disastrous Iran nuclear deal has been ended (at least for the US); and ISIS no longer controls a massive expanse of territory in Iraq and Syria. Standing up to violent intimidation, Trump moved the US Embassy in Israel to its rightful location, Jerusalem. The US economy is roaring. And yet the establishment media is focusing on the laughter from the General Assembly when Trump touted his administration’s achievements. Their spin is that the assembled diplomats were scoffing at Trump’s empty boasts. It would be yet another case of the hatred of the good for being the good. The governments represented in the UN General Assembly can point to nothing like Trump’s record of achievement. Many are from failed states. All they have is their scorn for a genuinely successful leader.

“President Trump Returns to the U.N.—with a Mountain of Evidence for ‘Peace Through Strength,’” WhiteHouse.gov, September 25, 2018:

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President Donald J. Trump helped kick off the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City yesterday. Along with a series of bilateral meetings with allies this week, the President is addressing the full Assembly in a major speech Tuesday morning.

“The scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the United Nations is based,” President Trump told the Assembly last September. “They respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries.”

One year later, the bold diplomacy of the Trump Administration has diminished many of the threats the President cited that day, including the most critical ones from North Korea, Iran, and ISIS.

Among these accomplishments, the historic Singapore Summit with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-Un stands out, marking the first-ever face-to-face meeting between an American President and a North Korean head of state. At the summit, the two leaders committed to the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

At last year’s UNGA, President Trump foreshadowed this development. “It is time for North Korea to realize that denuclearization is its only acceptable future,” he said. Just last week, leaders from both North and South Korea met to reaffirm that vision and begin drafting a plan to achieve it.

Last year’s speech identified another significant threat to the American homeland: terrorism originating from turbulence in the Middle East. Two bad actors, ISIS and the Iranian regime, share much of the responsibility for the death and destruction. “We must deny the terrorists safe haven, transit, funding, and any form of support for their vile and sinister ideology,” President Trump said. The President has also condemned regimes’ and terror groups’ use of hostage-taking and prioritized the recovery of Americans held hostage or detained overseas.

To eradicate the first of these threats, ISIS, President Trump changed the rules of engagement on the ground, empowering U.S. commanders with broader authority. The results are unmistakable. ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which was liberated in less than 18 months under the Trump Administration.

The chips fell quickly. In October 2017, ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city of Raqqah was liberated. By December, the Iraqi government announced that all Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS control.

On Iran, President Trump used last year’s UNGA speech to reiterate his profound objections to a nuclear deal that put the interests of diplomats ahead of the Iranian people—and, indeed, peaceful people the world over. By lifting sanctions and unfreezing financial assets, the Obama Administration’s deal gave the Iranian regime a cash windfall while failing to advance America’s national security interests.

“Rather than use its resources to improve Iranian lives, its oil profits go to fund Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill innocent Muslims and attack their peaceful Arab and Israeli neighbors,” President Trump said. “This wealth, which rightly belongs to Iran’s people, also goes to shore up Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship, fuel Yemen’s civil war, and undermine peace throughout the entire Middle East.”

In May, the President made good on his promise to withdraw the United States from that deal. A new agreement, he emphasized, must permanently deny Iran any path to a nuclear weapon and address the totality of the regime’s malign activities, including its support for terrorism.

While North Korea, ISIS, and Iran constituted three of the biggest threats to peace, they were far from the only aggressors President Trump called out in New York last year:

“The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens—even innocent children—shock the conscience of every decent person.” In April, the United States joined Britain and France in launching precision air strikes on targets associated with those chemical weapons capabilities.
“The Venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing. Their democratic institutions are being destroyed. This situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch.” In March, the Trump Administration expanded its sanctions against Venezuelan leaders, upping pressure on the corrupt Maduro regime.
“In America, the people govern, the people rule, and the people are sovereign. I was elected not to take power, but to give power to the American people, where it belongs. In foreign affairs, we are renewing this founding principle of sovereignty.” In keeping with that vision, National Security Advisor John Bolton announced this month that the Trump Administration would take all necessary steps to protect American soldiers and citizens from unjust prosecution by the unaccountable International Criminal Court.

By prioritizing peace through strength, the rate of progress for American foreign policy over the past 12 months has been staggering. President Trump makes it clear that this work is only just beginning. On Tuesday in New York, he will build on last year’s message to the U.N.—that strong, sovereign nations must work side-by-side to confront the gravest threats to our civilization.

“If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph.”

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Patti York
Patti York
5 years ago

By far the greatest president of my life time. I feel so blessed to be living at this time.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Patti York

Reagan was good but Trump is in your face with being a PATRIOT.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Ya. Reagan granted amnesty to 3.5 million illegal aliens but Trump??

Trump and Sessions pinprick arrests and deportations of illegal aliens by BP and ICE is barely keeping up with new arrivals! This is a minute fraction of what really needs to be done.

…18 months in and,

800,000 DACA illegal are …………STILL HERE!
12-20 million illegal aliens …………STILL HERE!
Thousands of muslim refugees ………..STILL HERE!
Thousands of H-1b/2b workers ………..STILL HERE!
Mandatory E-Verify……………NOT HERE.
The 1,954 mile wall is ………..NOT HERE!

Helll, It would…..STILL be the same, if Hillary had been elected!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Prez. Trump …STILL does not have the guts to do what Eisenhower did.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ARCHIVE 2006 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico By John Dillin JULY 6, 2006 https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html WASHINGTON — George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border. Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond. President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol. >>> Trump, and Congress are…STILL not serious about a clear and present national security issue!

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Patti York

As jihadi invasion and crimes go through the roof while police and politicians twiddle their thumbs.

And UN Supports Jihadi Invasion and Islamic Takeover of Non-Muslim Lands after rejecting Trump’s
Nominee https://tinyurl.com/yc88lljq

So why are we funding these scumbags ?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

He did a great job there! He’s got more BALLS than all the males in that room. Have you seen the transcript on this?

Parts I really liked!

“The United States will provide no support in recognition to the International Criminal Court. As far as America is concerned, the ICC has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy, and no authority….

America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism. Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other, new forms of coercion and domination. ..

.the United States will not participate in the new Global Compact on Migration. Migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens.”

Transcript at the link and him making the speech. Could you seriously see ANY of those he ran against doing this?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/25/president-trump-speech-to-73rd-u-n-general-assembly-transcript-and-video/#more-154538

7Liberty12
7Liberty12
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

“Could you seriously see ANY of those he ran against doing this?”

Not a damn one of them!!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

George Soros Funded Fusion GPS; Dirty Dem Money Helped Back Bogus Trump Dossier
https://truepundit.com/george-soros-confirms-he-funded-fusion-gps-dirty-dem-money-helped-back-bogus-trump-dossier/
– Soros indirectly funded Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Didn’t know that. SOROS was involved there too!

ahem
ahem
5 years ago

Outstanduing speech.

Trump 2020

Barbara
Barbara
5 years ago

He has done what he said he would. Great respect for your President Donald Trump and his wife Melania.I have this picture of the battleship ‘Vermont’ buffeting the cauldron seas. I would send to Whitehouse if I knew how.

BigMG
BigMG
5 years ago

Thank you Hillary, or at least one of your not-poxed-body-doubles, for giving us a president that you could not even come close to being.

Were it not for your venal, murderous, scheming, slandering ways we would never have been given the choice of Trump.

Bless you Democrats for being the reason so many people have opened their eyes!

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
5 years ago

Great speech, great press conference, made us proud!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

America is meant to be a beacon of hope to the entire world, and spread liberty and justice to all nations. I hope we do so, the right way.

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