Watching President Trump slice and dice the United Nations Tuesday morning, I couldn’t help but think that the gods have a sense of humor — and excellent timing.

The fact that neither the building’s escalator nor its teleprompter was working gave Trump fresh ammunition for his broad onslaught, which was well designed and extremely effective.

He saw the malfunctions as a metaphor for a blob of bureaucrats failing at their core reason for being.

He didn’t skimp on offering abundant evidence that the world body is a bust at making peace and keeping it.

Indeed, he argued that, beyond being useless, its weakness is actually making some big problems worse.

“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he asked before answering his own question: “For the most part, at least for now, all the

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