U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday in a rambling speech that lasted nearly an hour.

Trump repeatedly criticized the institution and other world leaders. He described the U.N. as ineffective, criticized migration policies, dismissed climate change as a “hoax” and “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” and told the assembled leaders that their countries were “going to hell.”

If the speech was intended to project strength, the reaction from foreign diplomats and U.S. politicians suggested something closer to alarm. One foreign diplomat texted The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor: “This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?”

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