(CNN) — It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken.

“I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless,” he said, sounding less than happy. “That way you speak more from the heart.”

What could have been a minor technical snafu — a UN official said it was up to the White House to operate the president’s prompter; a White House official said it was the UN’s apparatus — instead foretold a speech that both veered well off-script and questioned the UN’s ability to solve problems much bigger than malfunctioning audio-visual equipment.

Trump used the yearly foreign policy address to castigate foreign allies for supposedly ruining their countries with unchecked

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