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Trump calls U.N. 'unaccountable' in boastful attack on multilateralism

At the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack on the U.S.-hosted world body that he described as a largely usesless "global bureaucracy."

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly (AN/White House)

UNITED NATIONS (AN) — U.S. President Donald Trump used his second annual address to the U.N. General Assembly to unleash his nationalist, anti-globalist themes while reducing the world's leading international organization and everything it represents to "an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy."

Trump's triumphant boasts about America's economic and military might and his total dismissal of the crucial role that international organizations play in underpinning the Western-led international order was met with blank stares and scornful, mocking laughter from some of the other world leaders gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

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