We already know he doesn’t need much to mock people he doesn’t like. A video is circulating online showing Macron in New York, frustrated because the police had blocked the streets. In an unusual scene, an officer apologizes to the French president and explains that the blockade is due to the imminent passage of the presidential motorcade, which includes a dozen vehicles, police on bicycles, and the president’s car, The Beast. Macron uses his French humor (assuming such a thing exists) and tries to bribe the officer: “If you don’t see it, let me cross. I negotiate with you.” He is about as successful as when he tries to convince the French to vote for him.
Then he tries a second joke — maybe the champagne was good, or maybe Brigitte Macron just stayed in Paris, and he finally lost sight of her for a few hours — and calls President Donald Trump: “Guess what — I’m stuck in the street because everything is frozen for you.” After a pause while his interlocutor responds, Macron laughs, gives up on crossing the street in his car, and continues on foot.
I have no doubt that Trump replied something like: “French dwarf, granny-snatcher, screw you and walk — it’s good for your blood flow. Maybe that’ll get your ideas flowing and stop you from running the best campaign of your life for Hamas, rewarding their October 7 massacre with recognition of the Palestinian state. Otherwise, all good? How’s Grandma Brigitte? Did you have a good trip? Are there still any French people left in France? Love you, Manu.”
After this friendly exchange, Donald Trump delivered his long-awaited speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. I’ve dedicated more than a chapter in my book I Will Not Eat Crickets to this absurd organization, so I won’t dwell on what the U.N. was, is, or will be — beyond a vast institutionalized scam and an immense nest of corruption. However, I know Trump said many things to his U.N. audience — some quite audacious — and I’m not sure Guterres, Macron, Petro, Lula, and of course Sánchez are capable of understanding them. My job here is to offer a translation adapted to their intellectual capacities.
“The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not promote them.”
Regarding immigration, Trump said: “Our message is very simple: If you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail or you’re going back to where you came from.” In Angela Merkel’s language, that could be: “Refugees not welcome.” Trump even had time to add at the end of his speech: “The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not promote them.” This is interesting because 99 percent of Europe’s immigration problems have been caused or promoted by European social-democratic governments and the useful idiots of the European People’s Party, who are so afraid of being right-wing that they always end up voting with the left.
Regarding the role of the U.N., Trump was clear: “Empty words don’t solve war.” An elegant invitation for Macron, Starmer, and Carney to stop acting foolishly about Palestine. “Although Trump may not realize that he is speaking to an audience full of people who believe a war can be stopped with a sticker that says ‘No to War.’”
He accused Iran of being “the world’s number-one sponsor of terror” and stated it “cannot even be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon,” which made his Latin American communist allies — and the petty Prime Minister of Spain — squirm in their seats. (We Spaniards don’t deserve him, but the good Lord has suggested in my dreams that enduring Sánchez for seven years will equal 700 years of purgatory for every Spaniard — 100 years less for each year under this histrionic and corrupt president — which, surprisingly, is a good deal.)
One of the funniest moments — if we ignore the tragedy of war — was when he addressed the situation in Ukraine, reminding NATO members of their infinite hypocrisy: “They are buying oil and gas from Russia while fighting Russia.” Let me add this: the war is no longer a trending topic in Europe. European leaders no longer wear pins with the Ukrainian flag, and in sports leagues, no athlete dedicates their victory to the Ukrainians. It’s nothing personal; it was all part of a huge fuss by the EU to cover up its internal disasters. Now that they’ve managed to entrench the war in Ukraine indefinitely, European political intellectuals are very busy trying to do the same in Gaza.
On climate change, under the watchful eyes of Spaniards, Germans, French, Belgians, Austrians, Portuguese, and all those who have destroyed their natural landscapes to plant polluting battery farms and windmills that kill birds like a butcher’s mincer, he said what we were all hoping for: “Windmills are pathetic.”
In summary, Trump told the Europeans at the U.N. what no powerful leader dares say in Brussels: that climate environmentalism, Soros-style globalism, and illegal immigration are utterly destroying their countries. (RELATED: The Godfather of Global Disorder)
The U.S. president left the stage after more than 50 minutes of dialectical slaps that sounded like a futile rebuke, because almost none of these arrogant and corrupt leaders will pay him much attention. But at least it was comforting for European citizens, who increasingly share the same view: windmills and Sharia-ruled ghettos are destroying Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, and the rest of social-democratic Europe.
However, the best part of the speech went straight to the heart of the U.N. At the start of his address, Trump noted that the teleprompter wasn’t working, but said he could speak without it, from the heart. The fearful U.N. leaders would undoubtedly have preferred a scripted speech over Trump’s improvisation. When the moment came, Trump asked what the U.N. is for, what it offers him. And, after recalling how he got stuck next to Melania on the building’s escalator, he declared: “These are the two things from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.”
It’s impossible to find a better metaphor for what the U.N. is today: a broken escalator and a malfunctioning teleprompter. Brilliant.
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