At the U.N., Trump Lays Out a Winner-Takes-All Vision of U.S. Power

President Trump spoke at the United Nations on Tuesday, threatening to “annihilate the Islamic republic” if a deal to end the war against Iran did not come to pass.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times

President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations. 


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The NYT article, written by   Zolan Kanno-Youngs  and David E. Sanger,
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"Mr. Trump’s 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. 'Your countries are going to hell,' Mr. Trump said from the podium last year."


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