President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations on Tuesday to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution, while warning Europe it would be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a “double-tailed monster” of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies.
Later, in a bilateral meeting with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Trump’s tone toward the United Nations shifted after his speech earlier in the day blasted the world body for issuing “empty words.”
“Our country is behind the United Nations 100%,” Trump told Guterres. “I may disagree with it sometimes but I am so behind it because the potential for peace at this institution is great.”
World leaders were listening closely to his remarks at the U.N. Gene