President Donald Trump, in a United Nations speech that lasted nearly an hour, criticized member nations on migration and called climate change a « con job. »
President Donald Trump mocked the United Nations’ headquarters in a speech to the General Assembly, recalling his failed bid to renovate the building in New York.
« Many years ago, a very successful real estate developer in New York, known as Donald J. Trump, I bid on the renovation and rebuilding of this very United Nations complex », Trump told the GA during wide-ranging remarks that questioned the purpose of the UN.
« I said at the time that I would do it for $500 million, rebuilding and everything, it would be beautiful », Trump said.
» I used to talk about, ‘I’m going to give you marble floors, they’re going to give you terrazzo’, » he recalled. « ‘I’m going to give you the best of everything, you’re going to have mahogany walls. They’re going to give you plastic.
