Trump’s address to world leaders at the UN was for a different audience: his base
Trump told the assembled European leaders that they were destroying their own countries in a move that was basically Maga madlibs'
Donald Trump may have been speaking to the 192 other world leaders gathered in the United Nations, but the real target of his speech on Tuesday was Europe, which was hauled up repeatedly as the whipping boy for an antiliberal, blood-and-soil polemic that renewed an assault on the transatlantic relationship that has become a theme of his second administration.
In an hourlong address to the assembled world leaders and delegations, Trump told European leaders directly that they were destroying their own countries - and that they should be more like the US as he condemned their policies on immigration, green energy and political correctness.
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