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    "parsed_content": "U.N. General AssemblyliveUpdatesSept. 23, 2026, 8:41 a.m. ET9m agoTrump\u2019s SpeechTrump-Zelensky MeetingCarney\u2019s VisionU.N. LeadershipAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt the U.N., Trump Lays Out a Winner-Takes-All Vision of U.S. PowerPresident Trump\u2019s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations.Listen \u00b7 12:02 min Share full articlePresident Trump spoke at the United Nations on Tuesday, threatening to \u201cannihilate the Islamic republic\u201d if a deal to end the war against Iran did not come to pass.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York TimesBy Zolan Kanno-Youngs and David E. SangerZolan Kanno-Youngs and David E. Sanger cover the White House and reported from the United Nations.Sept. 22, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google The podium of the United Nations was an unusual setting for the leader of a global superpower to threaten to \u201cannihilate the Islamic republic\u201d of Iran or to declare that, in another conflict, \u201cto the victor belong the spoils.\u201dYet that was exactly what President Trump did on Tuesday, in threatening Iran if it failed to make a deal to end a war that had stretched far longer than Mr. Trump anticipated, and justifying his claims on Venezuelan oil reserves after American forces deposed its leader.Mr. Trump has long made clear that he has little use for the United Nations, one of the post-World War II institutions that he has dismissed as outdated and ineffective. But his speech at the annual opening of the General Assembly amounted to a pure American rejection of the concept behind the U.N.\u2019s founding in 1945: to \u201csave succeeding generations from the scourge of war.\u201dThe global body\u2019s charter, written largely by the United States, expressly prohibited members from threatening or using force against a country\u2019s territorial integrity unless acting in self-defense, or with the U.N.\u2019s authorization.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOn Iran, Mr. Trump made it clear that he, and he alone, would decide whether to strike a deal with Tehran\u2019s leaders or \u201cannihilate the Islamic republic.\u201dIt may have been largely a negotiating tactic. A little later in the morning, American officials quietly met with Iranians who were also in New York for the opening session, though it was unclear whether any progress was made or whether Mr. Trump himself would meet top Iranian officials.But his threats were not limited to the war that has consumed his presidency for months since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran. He promised that Cuba\u2019s government would fall, one way or the other. And if his \u201cto the victor belong the spoils\u201d line seemed drawn from the days of American gunboat diplomacy more than a century ago, that did not seem to bother the president. Mr. Trump has made it clear that he is willing to use the power of the U.S. military not only for the benefit of securing critical resources, like Venezuela\u2019s huge oil reserves, but also to turn a profit.ImageA billboard seen in Tehran this month. Despite numerous setbacks in the war against Iran, Mr. Trump made no mention of them in his speech.Credit...Arash Khamooshi\/Polaris for The New York TimesMr. Trump\u2019s comments came at a moment when he appeared more isolated than ever from traditional allies, and when Americans were telling pollsters they overwhelmingly disapproved of his foreign policy. But none of that seemed to lead Mr. Trump to back away from the fiery threats that he has combined with military action in his second term.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTEven by Mr. Trump\u2019s standards, the speech seemed to disregard the foundational purpose of the U.N., an institution he has long derided as ineffective and unsuited to deal with the contemporary issues of the world.It echoed a social media post earlier this year in which he threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization. But it was startling to hear such explicit threats from the podium of the United Nations. That seemed to be the president\u2019s intent, as he celebrated taking actions that past presidents and the U.N. itself shied away from.\u201cWill a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world?\u201d Mr. Trump asked, before raising a far different prospect, with no apparent effort to differentiate between the country\u2019s leadership and military and its civilians. \u201cOr do I annihilate the Islamic republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?\u201d\u201cDo I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?\u201d Mr. Trump said from the General Assembly podium, where world leaders typically present themselves as champions of peace. He made no mention of his frustrations that a war he boasted would last only days or weeks had now stretched to just shy of seven months.His speech, in short, seemed to embrace the core doctrine of his second term: that the United States would use a combination of overwhelming military and economic power to suit its own ends \u2014 and to bolster the national economy \u2014 rather than work through the painful, often slow diplomacy of deal-making and economic coercion. But he made no acknowledgment of the role of international bodies like the U.N., and seemed to suggest that they should simply line up behind the United States.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLater in the speech, he changed course, ticking off the list of conflicts he claimed he personally resolved, boasting that he saved millions of lives by intervening to prevent a war between Pakistan and India. And shortly after Mr. Trump threatened Iran with annihilation, his own aides met for three hours with Iranian officials. It was unclear what, if anything, was accomplished.This celebration of power over principle built upon a belief that Mr. Trump talked about in an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, when he dismissed international law as a constraint on his actions. The only limit on his power, he said, was \u201cmy own morality, my own mind \u2014 it\u2019s the only thing that can stop me.\u201dVenezuela was perhaps the most conspicuous example. He celebrated the swiftness with which Special Operations forces swept into Caracas, seized Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife from their bed, and delivered them to a detention center in Brooklyn, just a few miles from where Mr. Trump spoke.ImageSenator Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, said in a post on social media, \u201cHis war in Iran is a complete failure, and the American people are paying the price.\u201dCredit...Eric Lee for The New York TimesSenator Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, criticized Mr. Trump for promoting himself as both a president of peace and one that could wipe out a nation.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cTrump never misses a chance to humiliate himself in front of the world,\u201d Mr. Kim said in a post on social media. \u201cHis war in Iran is a complete failure, and the American people are paying the price.\u201dAnd from the podium, other world leaders criticized Mr. Trump without mentioning his name. President Emmanuel Macron of France, a nation allied with the United States since the American Revolution, denounced a global retreat to the \u201claw of the jungle.\u201d President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva of Brazil, the first world leader to speak on Tuesday, said that democracy was \u201conce again under threat\u201d and \u2014 without mentioning the U.S. operation against Mr. Maduro \u2014 insisted that the Venezuelan people had the right to self-determination. Mr. Trump has insisted that it is not the right time for an open election in the country.Sign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.Recent polling shows Americans are not on board with Mr. Trump\u2019s approach. A CNN poll conducted last week showed that 29 percent of American adults approved of Mr. Trump\u2019s handling of foreign affairs; 71 percent said they disapproved \u2014 reaching or exceeding levels of disapproval President George W. Bush faced in 2006, when the Iraq war was unraveling.But to Mr. Trump, actions like seizing Venezuela\u2019s leader and making claims on its oil were clear victories. \u201cIt was a war, but it\u2019s perhaps the biggest deal ever made,\u201d he said. \u201cIf necessary, we will use our unmatched military might to secure the vital national interests of the United States.\u201dMr. Trump also described Cuba as a \u201cfailed state\u201d that would soon fall. \u201cWe\u2019ll not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep,\u201d Mr. Trump said, prompting Cuban officials to walk out of the General Assembly.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cThe US government proves incapable of accepting that #Cuba is, and has the right to be, a fully independent and sovereign country,\u201d Bruno Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla, Cuba\u2019s foreign minister, later said on social media. \u201cCuba is not a threat to the US nor to any country.\u201dMr. Trump also celebrated his administration\u2019s recent deal on Greenland. Earlier this year he threatened a total takeover of the huge island, which is believed to have large underground reserves of rare-earth minerals used for making batteries, electric vehicles and other high-tech products.ImageA protest in April outside the White House. Recent polling shows Americans are overwhelmingly not on board with Mr. Trump\u2019s approach.Credit...Tierney L. Cross\/The New York TimesYet the prospect of the U.S. seizing a semiautonomous territory spurred intense backlash from European leaders and nearly upended the Western alliance.After reaching a deal with Denmark and Greenland over the territory, Mr. Trump told the gathered crowd he planned to build two new military bases on Greenland \u2014 something the United States could have done in previous decades under an existing treaty.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Trump\u2019s speech was also a pivot from his past remarks to the U.N., which were spent insulting world leaders and scolding them on their own policies. \u201cYour countries are going to hell,\u201d Mr. Trump said from the podium last year.But now faced with a war in Iran with little sign of ending soon that has fueled discontent among his own supporters in the United States, Mr. Trump shifted from lecturing the international body to effectively selling them on his own actions \u2014 which have proved to be deeply unpopular with many Americans and allies overseas.\u201cI hope the Europeans realize that Iran\u2019s goal was to complete their mad dash to a nuclear bomb,\u201d Mr. Trump said in what amounted to a response to some of the world leaders that had criticized the war in Iran. \u201cIf they had succeeded, that wicked regime would have been free to spread terror and death forever.\u201dThe declaration that Iran was building missiles that could reach Europe didn\u2019t square with his earlier boasting of obliterating Iran\u2019s nuclear program.Mr. Trump claimed credit for ending the war in Gaza, even as humanitarian conditions there remain dire and a plan for disarming Hamas and withdrawing Israeli troops has been stalled for months.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Trump also attacked the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel over the war in Gaza, as a \u201crogue institution.\u201dThe I.C.C. was established in a 1998 treaty to investigate and try people for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. The court cannot enforce its rulings and relies on its member states to detain people who are accused of crimes.Mr. Trump called on all members of the International Criminal Court to resign immediately.While the U.N. has said climate change is an existential threat and propelled the issue of artificial intelligence to the top of its agenda, Mr. Trump once again took a different approach. Climate change was nothing more than a \u201choax,\u201d Mr. Trump said.And the United States rejected \u201cany attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control\u201d artificial intelligence.Mr. Trump did have one suggested change to the way the world approached A.I., one that made use of his penchant for branding.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cFrom this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world\u2019s will be changed to use the much more accurate term \u2018super\u2019 as opposed to \u2018artificial,\u2019\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cSo it\u2019s super intelligence.\u201dMr. Trump then appealed for the leaders to refer to the rising technology as \u201cS.I.\u201d Whether they did, he said, would be a test of influence on the world stage \u2014 a question that has appeared to be consistently on the mind of the president.\u201cLet\u2019s see if I have any power,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cMaybe I do and maybe I don\u2019t. We\u2019re going to find out pretty soon.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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