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Addressing the U.N. General Assembly for the first time since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump gave what might be the most bonkers speech of his political career—and I say that knowing the bar is high.

It was, among other things, unrelentingly, embarrassingly—and, most of all, delusionally—egomaniacal. The whole first section claimed, in language that seemed borrowed from textbooks of Communist Party congresses, the many ways that, in just eight months, he has transformed the U.S. from the “ruinous” “calamity” of “Sleep Joe Biden” to “the hottest country anywhere in the world … indeed the Golden Age of America … the greatest economy in the his

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