Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Has Trump finally gone over the edge?

A day after a press conference in Washington where he spouted a lot of totally debunked nonsense about autism being caused by paracetamol, Donald Trump gave a rambling, deranged ‘speech’ to assembled world leaders at the UN in New York. The President of the USA appeared to confuse his audience of worldly-wise diplomats and intelligent, sophisticated statesmen for the ragbag of swivel-eyed, gullible, dimwits from Hicksville who turn up in their thousands to his MAGA campaign rallies. At times, it seemed he was challenging the UN delegates to make sense of what he was saying. Amazingly, he was using an autocue, implying that someone had actually prepared the speech and written the words down in some sort of order.  

The BBC said his critics would view the performance as "unhinged" and remarked that the last time he appeared at the UN, during his first term, Trump was met with laughter. This time, they listened in jaw-dropping silence. There was also perhaps an element of fear. After all, there are no guardrails this time.

It was a tour de farce, a long rant switching topics mid-sentence according to the irrational inner workings of his deranged mind, AKA 'the weave'.  "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell," he declared at one point. No men in white coats appeared carrying hypodermics loaded with sedatives, as they should have done. Here's a flavour of it:

Trump's brain is now incoherently flitting from topic to topic as the UN sits listening him to complete silence

I assume some people other than Trump read the speech before he stood up, at least the non-ad-libbed bits, but it seems nobody had the nerve to tell him it was completely inappropriate, far too long and, well, utterly stupid. He took almost an hour to deliver it, far longer than the 15 minutes he was allotted, and nobody dared cut him off.

The whole event was to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN in 1945, after the horrors of the Second World War. Trump chose the occasion to attack the organisation as if it were a totally separate body rather than the collective voice of the world. It has become useless because the five permanent members - including the USA - have a veto on any potential actions, and use it all the time. That's why nothing gets done.

Even his own side looked embarrassed. The cameras caught them all stony-faced, except for his UN ambassador Mike Waltz (on the right in the clip below) whose face was fixed into a weird grin/smile the whole time:

Congratulations to the control box at the UN's media centre. That shot of Trump's senior team, locked in different frozen expression masks, while he spews climate change denial and white replacement theory is just amazing.

I wouldn't be surprised if several of them, Marco Rubio and his CoS Susie Wiles certainly, were not thinking about when they should get the cabinet to start considering Article 25 of the US Constitution to relieve him of his duties and get him certified. It's probably only the prospect of JD Vance taking over which is stopping them.

It was really that bad. The Washington Post's global affairs correspondent Ishaan Tharoor, revealed that one 'senior foreign diplomat' messaged him:

Trump said US environmentalists wanted to "kill all the cows" and that the mayor of London was intent on implementing "Sharia law." Climate change was nothing but a "green scam."  If there was any doubt beforehand that the leader of the free world belonged in a loony bin, that was dispelled yesterday. The whole world knows it.  America will never live it down.

On Monday, in Washington, this was perhaps the only truthful and accurate thing he said:

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

I think we can all agree on that.

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