Trump's UN Rant Was A Study In Delusion, Contempt And Disinformation

 Trump's UN rant was a study in delusion, contempt and disinformation
‘Every cogent Republican and even his own brown-nosing staff gasped and 
cringed throughout the harangue as Trump embarrassed himself, his 
supporters, the nation and human kind’ 

There is no doubt that President Donald Trump and I would totally agree on 
one thing about his performance Tuesday on the world stage as he addressed 
the United Nations.

No one has ever seen anything like it. Besides Trump, however, no one would 
want to.

No doubt, every cogent Republican and even his own brown-nosing staff must 
have gasped and cringed throughout the harangue as Trump embarrassed 
himself, his supporters, the nation and human kind.

What was billed as a major foreign policy address was instead a rambling, 
incoherent homily that confirmed every doubt about his mental fitness, his 
contempt for truth, and his willingness to humiliate the United States on 
the global stage.

Trump’s hour-long rant was a study in delusion, contradiction and self-
aggrandizement. He began by loudly stammering about the United Nations 
having “tremendous potential” but was “not even coming close” to fulfilling 
it. In nearly the same twitchy warble during his opera of the absurd, 
however, he bragged about pulling the United States out of the World Health 
Organization, abandoning the U.N. Human Rights Council, and reviewing 
hundreds of other international commitments to see if they fit his personal 
political agenda. He declared the world body useless, then turned around 
after the speech and assured Secretary General Antonio Guterres that the 
U.S. is “One hundred percent behind” the organization.

Well, President “Stable Genius,” which is it?

This wasn’t just the usual, jarring Trump political posturing. When it 
wasn’t incoherent, it was a profusion of misinformation, disinformation, 
exaggeration and outright lies.

Trump stumbled through contradictory positions as if he were the world’s 
arsonist and firefighter, boasting about creating peace while 
simultaneously pulling out his toy gun to point at Iran and Venezuela. He 
praised himself as a peacemaker while openly celebrating his decision to 
order airstrikes that killed alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean, which 
many human rights advocates consider extra-judicial executions.

As he stammered and wailed, Trump’s speech veered into outright nonsense. 
He warned European nations of a “double-tailed monster.” It was apparently 
his bizarre phrase for immigration and renewable energy. He claimed these 
two forces “destroy everything in their wake.”

It’s as if he doesn’t remember that most of us know that some of his 
favorite wives are immigrants.

The two-tail metaphor fell flat, eliciting groans and nervous laughter from 
delegates. It was the rhetoric of a crank.

No doubt we’ll all soon be getting text messages from our friends outside 
the United States about Trump’s crank call for a world without immigrants, 
coastlines or food. “The call is coming from inside the house.”

The speech had all the markings of being created by a third-rate AI chatbot 
and then polished with Trump’s own extemporaneous “skills.” 

But the most disturbing part of this jaw-clencher was the president’s 
apparent detachment from reality. He again falsely insisted that he has 
“ended seven wars” and hinted, again, that he deserves the Nobel Peace 
Prize.

Trump’s whack wonderment is not just exaggeration. It is a delusion. None 
of the conflicts he cited have ended. Russia continues to viciously attack 
Ukraine. Hamas and Israel remain locked in a war that has become a 
genocidal nightmare, and violence persists in places like Sudan and the 
Congo. Trump’s fantasy diplomacy exists only on Fox News and in his own 
imagination.

That imagination has grown even more dark and paranoid than when Trump 
banned Muslims from entering the United States and when he attacked his own 
best allies because they want to know the truth about Trump and the Epstein 
files.

It got so much worse as his blathering tirade continued.

Trump told Europeans their cultures were being “devastated” by migrants 
“you have nothing in common with.”

He said climate change and green energy were a “scam” that would cause 
nations to fail.

His xenophobic, anti-scientific, reckless rhetoric might play well to the 
darkest corners of his naive political base. At the U.N., however, in front 
of representatives of nearly every nation on Earth, it made the US look 
like it’s been hijacked by a tiny-handed, small-minded, angry and unhinged 
orange-colored guy who isn’t getting the medication or mental health he so 
desperately needs.

He ping-ponged from self-congratulation to grievances to rambling asides.

His steely fixation on his own supposed greatness, his bitterness toward 
international institutions, and his inability to use or connect facts in a 
coherent order all points to a man struggling with something deeper than 
bad speech writing. World leaders and anyone who watched from outside and 
endured his monologue could not have missed the signs of Trump’s clear 
cognitive deficiency and psychological instability.

This spectacle was a critical gaffe not just because it was profoundly 
embarrassing. It mattered because the United States desperately needs 
credibility at the U.N. as wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan.

The world is desperate for sound and steady leadership. Instead, the United 
States offered Trump’s rambling paranoia, his boasts of violence, and his 
sneering contempt for the very institution in which he delivered his 
disturbed manifesto against windmills, immigrants and Barack Obama.

It’s hard to determine what’s more unnerving: that Trump is dangerously in 
charge of the country, or that there is a considerable number of Americans 
that are OK with that, or just don’t care.

Trump’s sermon revealed a man with no coherent worldview and offered only 
his own glorification. He and his toadies have reduced our allies to 
laughter, emboldened our adversaries, and made our nation look unreliable 
and unstable, which it clearly is.

The United States needs much more than Trump and his sycophants, and we 
need it now.