On Tuesday, September 25th a United Nation meeting was held. During this meeting, President Donald Trump decided to brag about the progress done for the United States. Upon completing his statements, he was met by a round of laughter.
In his statements, Trump claims that, " in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the country.". During his presidential campaign, he promised the building of a wall to stop illegal immigrants from passing in the U.S from Mexico and getting rid of the Affordable Care Act signed in by Obama. Two things to this day he still not as done, despite his claims that he has already started the building of the wall. He has also claimed that people without a job is at the lowest rates in the past 18 years, but it is still very high compared to the past.
Another claim that Trump has made during the meeting was that," many countries in the Middle East strongly supported my (his) decision to withdraw the United States from the horrible 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimpose nuclear sanctions." However, only certain countries in the Middle East would support his statement as only Saudi Arabia, U.A.E Bahrain, and Israel would agree. Many other countries would disagree such as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait, and Oman. Jordan has even threatened to start an arms race without the nuclear agreement. Other countries, such as Britain, Germany, China, Russia, Canada, Japan, and many others were against Trump pulling out of the deal as it controlled the amount of nuclear weapons created by Iran in exchange for money to help rebuild their economy.
Trump has claimed that after his speech, the people were laughing with him and not at him. A member of the UN said that they were all laughing because Trump is a truthful man and FOX shouldn't have made it appear as the audience was being mean to Trump. What do you think?
Sources:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/world/fact-check-trump-speech-united-nations.html
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/26/trump-united-nations-speech-they-were-laughing-me/1436376002/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/world/middleeast/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html
picture:http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2017/09/the_latest_ivanka_trump_pursues_her_own_agenda_at_un
I think most leaders were laughing at him since he hasn't followed through with his campaign promises.
ReplyDeleteI think it's interesting that Trump would consider himself as an accomplished man when he hasn't really done much to uphold his promises made in his presidential speech (not that it would be good to fulfill those promises). I personally think that Trump was completely serious in his self evaluation, and claimed that the UN was laughing with him and not at him, because his claim didn't have the reaction that he was expecting.
ReplyDelete-Wendy
I think that everyone was laughing at him because of the fact-less claims he so confidently made. He said that he was laughing with them because he was embarrassed and that in no way shape or form should the press be NICER to him. The press' job is to challenge and question our leaders.
ReplyDelete-Lea