CHICAGO (WLS) -- Normally, United Nations leaders' speeches are kept to about 15 minutes, but President Donald Trump went on for nearly an hour in Tuesday's speech, which was not tightly focused and took aim at European allies, renewable energy, and the U.N.

"Not only is the UN not solving the problems, it should - too often, it's actually creating new problems for us to solve," Trump said.

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Trump took jabs at the U.N. General Assembly . Under his administration, the United States is stepping back from the back from the U.N. system it helped to create following World War II, says Craig Kafura, with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

"It's not that every president is a huge fan of the United Nations or multi-lateralism, inter

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