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President Donald Trump tore into the United Nations during an address to its General Assembly on Tuesday, accusing the international body of being ineffective at securing peace while pushing uncontrolled migration that he said is destroying Western countries.
Trump began his nearly hour-long speech by noting his teleprompters had malfunctioned and later mentioned the escalator taking him to the assembly room had broken, which he implied were apt metaphors for the organization's fecklessness on a global scale.
"Unfortunately, many things in the United Nations are happening just like that, but on an even much bigger scale; much, much bigger. Sad to see whether the U.N. can manage to play a productive role," he said.
"What is the purpose of the United Nations?" Trump also ask