Trump's UN Speech: The Peacemaker Who Fuels War

Trump's lies of making peace are laid bare by the reality of Gaza

It was once said of Barack Obama that to truly understand him it was best to read the transcript of his speeches. He was such a gifted orator that he could charm an audience into believing something that was not really there.

By contrast, for all of Donald Trump’s many misgivings, it is his lack of oratory skill that stands out most.

Today he addressed the UN General Assembly for the first time since 2020. With the world at a crossroads on climate change, war and migration, this was Trump’s chance, and America’s chance, to set out a vision for the future. The world did not need to agree with every American proposal, but it should have been a moment to cement Trump’s political legacy.

Yet Trump lacked the usual cast of loyalists he gathers for his weekly news conference style addresses to the American public. He could not rely on others being forced to indulge in lavish praise of his supposed greatness.

Without the carefully orchestrated theatre, arguably the most powerful man on earth in terms of influence and military might came across like a teenager who had spent too long on social media. Trump is, at heart, an insecure man. His obsession with an orange hue and the comb over are visible signs of that insecurity.

Trump boasted that he had stopped seven wars in the last seven months, including between India and Pakistan, and that he had ended them forever. He claimed no one in history had ever done such a thing before, and that he had saved thousands of lives.

He added that he was not doing this for some prize, a thinly veiled reference to the Nobel Peace Prize, but out of a sense of duty, to show how he and the United States were leading the world into an era of peace.

The one truth he did tell was the UN being nothing more than a talking shop with the inability to take action when it mattered. What he forgot to mention is that for the most part, even if the UN wanted to do anything, most recently about the situation in Gaza, it is the United States’ continued vetoing of any resolution that prevents this.

The constant need to self congratulate on peacemaking hid the fact he and his leading nation have presided over one of the worst genocides in world history. A genocide which has been declared as such by the very body he was standing before, a man made famine which again has been declared as such by the very institutions Trump tells the world to look up to. Yet here he was with his brazen arrogance telling the world that if it were not for Hamas all of this would have been over. The need to get the hostages back, with no mention of the killing of children gathering for aid by its guard dog in the Middle East, the Zionist entity.

Trump’s address to the UN came with the backdrop of four western nations, namely the UK, Canada, Australia and France, recognising the state of Palestine for the first time. The insincere attempt to wash the blood off their hands for the murder of tens of thousands by now attempting to get on the right side of history. Forgetting that the UK is still arming the Zionists and it was the likes of Keir Starmer who suggested the Palestinians be besieged with power and water cut off to force Hamas’ hand.

In reality, for all of America’s threatening of Iran, its praise of Qatar whilst backing the bombing of Doha, and its support for the Zionist entity, the West is now losing the information war when it comes to Gaza.

The world does not want promises of a Palestinian state, it wants action. It does not want a self indulgent global leader who boasts about stopping seven wars when he is funding and fuelling a genocide.

Western institutions such as the United Nations are now defunct and not fit for purpose, and this is not because of Trump pointing out the broken escalators, the broken teleprompter, or his obvious bitterness at not being given the contract to carry out the refurbishment of the UN Headquarters many years ago.

Trump’s speech at the UN was not a show of power but a sign that the veil is being lifted on Western hypocrisy. Fewer and fewer people believe the lies, no one sees the leading powers as forces for peace or for improving the lives of others, and the old excuses no longer carry weight.

The world doesn’t need a poor excuse of a man to lead them, it doesn’t need an ideology that fails to stop the slaughter and starvation of children to direct it. It doesn’t need the promises of a Palestinian state , knowing it will never come to fruition.

What the world needs is a new direction, one that puts people before power, morality before money, and security before savagery. Western capitalism has had its chance, it has failed, and everything it stands for is personified in the state of Israel.

The Caliphate is a system built not on exploitation but on justice, not on greed but on accountability, and not on empty slogans of peace but on real protection of human life and dignity. Only through this can humanity move beyond hypocrisy and live by principles that serve all, not just the powerful few.

I would say that is what the world needs.

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