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When, since its founding in 1945, has as much truth been spoken in any UN chamber as was spoken by Donald Trump in his masterful hour-long oration on September 23? As part of “High-Level Week,” during which heads of government from around the world take their turns in the spotlight, most of them boring the General Assembly to death for fifteen minutes or so before shutting offstage, Trump was electrifying. Like J.D. Vance in Munich last February, he served up some home truths, mostly about the countries of Western Europe, which he criticized for failing to curb mass immigration, for relying on “green energy,” and for continuing to buy into the idea of climate change, which he described – wonderfully – as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” He explained his preoccupation with Europe: “I love Europe. I love the people of Europe. And I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake…you want to be politically correct and you are destroying your heritage.”
You might expect at least some members of the Western European political establishment to appreciate Trump’s advice and recognize that he was speaking the truth. No, on second thought, you wouldn’t expect that, and neither would I. The men and women filling that auditorium on First Avenue would, with very few exceptions, be among the last people in the world to give a fair hearing to Trump’s views. They’re lockstep globalists for whom climate change (however it happens to be defined at the moment) is an undeniable truth and mass Islamic immigration to Europe an absolute good. I’ve written before about the time, many years ago, when I tried to convince an audience of diplomats in Washington, D.C., that there was a dark side to the flood of Muslims that had been entering Western Europe for the past few decades. They dismissed everything I said out of hand, calling it “anecdotal” and implying that I was something of a hysterical fool. Even now, when the seriousness of the problem is far more obvious than it was then, members of the diplomatic corps cling to their fatuous certitudes.
Yes, some of the General Assembly delegates laughed the other day when Trump was being funny. And they applauded him at the end – a sharp departure from the utterly rude reception he got when he last addressed that body seven years ago. Yet they gasped when he dared to question the religion of climate change. And none of them, I’m sure, had their minds changed by anything he said.
As with the politicians and diplomats, so with the media. Throughout Western Europe, Trump’s speech was not just characterized as “scathing,” “blistering,” and so forth but was also roundly mocked. In Norway, where the four reporters who covered Trump’s speech for Dagbladet quoted Hilmar Mjelde, a poli-sci professor and so-called “US expert,” as calling Trump’s comments on climate change “really radical.” Eirik Løkke, another “US expert” – a category of Norwegian academics, by the way, who invariably turn out to understand almost nothing about America and Americans – called Trump an “extremely narcissistic” man whose “extremely childish” statements amounted to “babbling madness.” Løkke appears to have made the media rounds: he told NRK that Trump “has a problematic relationship with reality” and told VG that Trump had “flooded” the hall “with nonsense all the way through.”
