Inside the room, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and other leaders listened to the president speak. “I never even received a phone call from the United Nations, offering to help in finalizing the deal. Some of those tariffs, Trump said, were a retaliatory effort. Trump “has been very clear he disagrees with this decision,” Leavitt told reporters Monday in a preview of his address. During remarks to the United Nations on Tuesday, President Donald Trump pushed world leaders to close borders to immigrants and asylum seekers.