A decade of watching Donald Trump speak has cured me of any expectation that this extraordinary man will ever deliver a speech that meets pre-Trump norms. The incessant boasting, grousing, misstatements, rambling, and shocking cruelty toward perceived enemies are all now so standard that they hardly bear mentioning — until Trump deploys them in a new and jarring context. You don’t have to be a globalist to regard addresses to the General Assembly of the United Nations as a relatively solemn occasion during which invited dignitaries have the opportunity to address the world, at least symbolically. At a minimum, it requires a broader perspective, and, indeed, we were told Trump would present his “vision for the world.”

If so, Trump’s “vision for the world” is mostly directed into a mirro

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