"It was, among other things, unrelentingly, embarrassingly-and, most of all, delusionally-egomaniacal. The whole first section claimed, in language that seemed borrowed from textbooks of Communist Party congresses, the many ways that, in just eight months, he has transformed the U.S. from the "ruinous" "calamity" of "Sleep Joe Biden" to "the hottest country anywhere in the world ... indeed the Golden Age of America ... the greatest economy in the history of the world.""
"He also repeated the, let us say, extreme exaggeration, recited in many domestic forums, that he personally ended seven wars-"no president or prime minister, no country, has ever done anything close to that ... everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements," adding that, while he was "working to save millions of lives," the United Nations-the institution that was hosting him-did nothing."
"He even went on, for several minutes, about how, many years ago, when he was a real-estate tycoon, the U.N. turned down his bid to renovate its headquarters and ended up with a far inferior contractor who was lousy at construction and incurred massive cost overruns. "Many things in the U.N. are happening just like that, on a bigger scale," he summed up his complaint."
President Donald Trump delivered an unabashedly self-congratulatory address at the U.N. General Assembly. The speech portrayed a rapid national transformation, calling the United States the "hottest country anywhere in the world" and the "greatest economy in the history of the world." The address claimed credit for ending seven wars and suggested those achievements merited Nobel Peace Prizes. The speech criticized the United Nations for inefficiency, citing a decades-old bid to renovate U.N. headquarters and accusing the institution of larger-scale mismanagement. World leaders responded with only two rounds of applause, neither particularly enthusiastic.
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