Clean up on aisle 47: Trump makes a mess while world leaders hold their noses…
“double, double, toil and trouble…”
Trump’s illogical tour de force in front of world leaders should be an ominous warning to MAGA elites, especially after the president, who claims to own only the best words, couldn’t pronounce acetaminophen as he called the most common drug ingredient in America toxic. Given his dire predictions for the rest of the world if it fails to heed his wisdom, one wonders who gave Momma Trump the Tannis Root smoothie used to beget her own devil’s spawn.
On Tuesday, the 47th president of the United States bewitched world leaders with his charmless arrogance. His penchant for bumptiousness tinged with terminal ignorance was in full view as he asserted at one point that he possessed unparalleled insight and clairvoyance,
“I’m really good at predicting things. During the campaign they had a hat — a best-selling hat — ‘Trump was right about everything.’ And I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.
Off his meds?
Except that he hasn’t been. The series of lies and his damning self-regard in the face of reality open him up to ridicule from world leaders. Unlike the half of our population that is inured to Trump’s worrisome leadership, they recognize that having a fool leading the strongest nation in the world may be funny, but it is also deadly serious. There is no need to repeat all the foolish claims he made on Tuesday here. By now, others have dissected his cranky illeisms and idle threats. His words have been recorded and dismissed as arrogance by most- save right-wing propaganda outlets, whose “talent” tries vainly to sanewash their grumpy grampa’s irrational behavior. FOX, as if to prove its “no journalist need apply” rule for online news readers, simply stated what Trump said without noting its absurdity:
“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” Trump asked, after recounting how he — not the U.N. — had ended seven wars.
From there, he launched into a wide-ranging address that touched on every one of the U.N.’s modern priorities — climate change, Ukraine, refugee resettlement and Palestinian statehood — and rejected each of them outright, unsettling many in attendance…
For the U.N., climate change is an existential threat requiring global action. Trump mocked the entire concept as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” deriding green energy as “all bankrupt” and declaring the carbon footprint “a hoax.” Dismissing decades of climate change work at the U.N., he said: “No more global warming, no more global cooling, whatever the hell happens, it’s climate change.”
One would think that Trump’s unscientific take on climate change would require some journalistic reflection- maybe a source or citing a study. The FOXies prefer to ignore the ugly parts and make up the rest- a recipe for propaganda found in right-wing cooked books.
The ‘cleanup’ of Donald Trump’s disastrous turn before world leaders at the UN this week began almost immediately. This administration is quite adept at cleaning up Trump’s self-imposed messes. They simply upturn another aisle.
So, the topics change, and distractions are introduced. They investigate a stalled escalator and a jammed teleprompter at the UN. The DOJ indicts former FBI Director James Commy. The savant-less idiot threatens to sue ABC and suggests that acetaminophen is bad medication, after once suggesting that injecting disinfectant is good for your health. The list of cynical contretemps descends from the ridiculous to the absurd. And who is asking what they found in John Bolton’s home after they rolled out that in the wake of Trump’s ‘Epstein problem’?
Wrong about the important things
As the president of the U.S. tells the leaders of other nations that they are “going to hell,” his is already there. In his bubble of self-interest, Trump has found allies in the self-interests of others. From flag-wrapped phonies to religious charlatans, those who can’t have enough are feasting on those who have little. Greed and power have deemed democracy expendable:
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, ‘although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,’ wrote Orwell, tends to be ‘uninterested in what happens in the real world.’ Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism ‘has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.’
A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well-and wishing that it would do better.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Trump’s UN tantrum played out before the world reflects on us as a nation. It suggests we are no longer who we were, with a dark recognition of what we are becoming. The world is watching, listening, as he projects on the world a mess only he has created. As he lectures Europe and reprimands Brazil, he reminds us all of the circus he has let loose at home.
Originally published at https://www.dailykos.com on September 25, 2025.
