President Trump Inside and Outside the Lines at the U.N.
21, 2017
UNITED NATIONS — It was hardly a surprise that Donald J. Trump, the New York real estate impresario-turned-leader of the free world, would mix awkwardly with the highly scripted, scrupulously diplomatic crowd
that converges here for the United Nations General Assembly.
"I actually saw great potential right across the street, to be honest with you, and it was only for the reason
that the United Nations was here that that turned out to be such a successful project," Mr. Trump told the leaders, some of whom appeared puzzled that he viewed the 193-member world body — the successor to the League of Nations — as a real estate play.
In his first address to the other leaders, on Monday, he spoke approvingly about the enduring role of the United Nations and paid it what for him is the ultimate compliment: telling the audience
that he deliberately built Trump World Tower opposite the slender green-glass and Vermont marble tower that houses the United Nations headquarters.
As the president wrapped up his first visit to the United Nations, meeting a battery of leaders from South Korea to Ukraine, his performance showed a man pulled between the imperatives of policing his tone
and a temptation to shake up the proceedings with plain talk, parochial humor and well-aimed mockery.
Martin said that When he declared to the world’s leaders
that he was embarrassed by the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his presidential predecessor, I felt he shamed America and thereby shamed himself,
North Korea one-upped Mr. Trump on his reference to a 1970s Elton John lyric by labeling the president the "Madman Across the Water." As with his first overseas trip in May, the president started off on a deceptively mild
and disciplined note, becoming looser, more outspoken and more sharp-elbowed as the week wore on.
United Nations said that We believe in sovereign nations,
