Trump’s UN Speech: Teleprompter Glitch, Claims of Ending Seven Wars

Donald Trump’s UN address got off to a shaky start after a teleprompter failure – with the US President joking that whoever was in charge of the device is “in big trouble.”

The US President returned the UN for the first time in six years since beginning his second term in January, and was welcomed to the podium with applause. Minutes into his speech, Trump said all he got from the United Nations was a broken escalator and faulty teleprompter. He said: “I feel very happy to be up here with you […] and that way you speak more from the heart. I can only say that whoever’s operating this teleprompter is in big trouble”.

“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up, stopped right in the middle,” he added. “If the First Lady wasn’t in great shape, she would have fallen. But we’re in great shape, we’re both in good shape, and then the teleprompter didn’t work, these are the two things I got from the United Nations.”

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Trump went on to gloat about putting an end to seven wars in just seven months, saying he saved thousands of lives in the process. Among the conflicts he claims to have prevented, Trump listed a number of wars, including those between Isreal and Iran, India and Pakistan and Congo and Rwanda.

“I have ended seven unendable wars, they said they were unendable,” he said. “I ended seven wars and in all cases they were raging with countless thousands of people being killed.” He said no president or prime minister has “ever done anything close to that. And I did it in just seven months. It’s never happened before. There’s never been anything like that. I’m very honoured to have done it.”

The US Presidnet also slammed the UN for not helping him with any of his foreign policy work. Continuing his claim that he ‘ended seven wars’ since returning to office, he said: “The UN has such tremendous potential. I’ve always said it.

“All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.”