Trump’s UN speech was unhinged even by his standards

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All President Trump had to do was arrive, give his speech for his allotted 15-minute slot, and leave. Instead, delegations from around the world were treated to a whistle-stop tour of Donald Trump’s mind. This started off fairly normally, at least by Trump’s standards. Trump’s allotted time ended about here, and had he wrapped things up the speech would’ve been remembered as false and self-serving, but shrugged off. If the 21st century becomes the story of its decline, this speech might be remembered as the moment the world could ignore it no longer.