Trump tells western leaders ‘Your countries are being ruined by uncontrolled immigration’ and accuses the UN of funding an ‘assault on your borders’

Donald Trump accused the United Nations of ‘funding an assault’ on the West through immigration and warned Europe is ‘going to hell’ in an astonishing address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

The U.S. President also called for an end to ‘the failed experiment of open borders’ as he lauded the success of his own hard line immigration crackdown. 

‘The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders,’ the he said during a wide-ranging address to world leaders in New York City.

‘The UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States,’ he said, pointing to cash support the organisation had supplied to in-need migrants.

He said the UN is supposed to protect countries from ‘invasions’ and ‘not create them and not finance them’, asserting that uncontrolled migration was the top issue of our time.

Addressing western allies he said plainly: ‘Your countries are being ruined by uncontrolled immigration’.

‘Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like no-one has ever seen before. And nobody’s doing anything to change it, to get them out.’

‘It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct they’re doing absolutely nothing about it,’ he said by way of illustration.

‘I look at London where you have a terrible mayor and it’s been so changed,’ he said, turning his attention to nemesis Sadiq Khan before falsely claiming: ‘Now they want to go to Sharia law but you’re in a different country, you can’t do that.’

In a wandering address, he also took aim at European nations for continuing to buy Russian oil and gas, adding that he would not impose sharp sanctions on Moscow over the war in Ukraine until allies cut off their purchases.

‘It’s embarrassing to them, and it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it,’ he said. ‘They have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise, we’re all wasting a lot of time.’

European nations have reduced imports from Russia since the February 2022 invasion, but continue to purchase gas.

On the thread of war, Trump reiterated claims he had ended seven conflicts around the world while criticising the United Nations for not offering assistance.

Trump has claimed responsibility for brokering peace deals between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cambodia and Thailand; Israel and Iran; India and Pakistan; Rwanda and the DRC; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Serbia and Kosovo.

‘I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalising the deal.’

In a scathing attack he asked: ‘What is the purpose of the United Nations?’ 

‘All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war.’

‘I’ve always said (the U.N.) has such tremendous, tremendous potential, but it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential.’

The 79-year-old even complained about a broken escalator and teleprompter at the New York headquarters of the UN, which he has repeatedly targeted during both of his presidential terms.

‘This is these are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,’ he said.

Touting what he said were his efforts to end seven wars, Trump turned to two where his outreach has produced no results – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s war in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack.

He called recognition by a slate of Washington’s allies of a Palestinian state a ‘reward’ to armed group Hamas for ‘horrible atrocities’ and urged the group to release hostages to reach peace.

While praising his own efforts to broker peace, Trump also heralded his decisions to order the U.S. military to carry out strikes on Iran and more recently against alleged drug smugglers from Venezuela.

Trump’s second term has opened with a blaze of nationalist policies curbing cooperation with the rest of the world.

He has moved to pull the United States out of the World Health Organization and the UN climate pact, severely curtailed US development assistance and wielded sanctions against foreign judges over rulings he sees as violating sovereignty.

Opening the annual summit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that aid cuts led by the United States were ‘wreaking havoc’ in the world.

‘What kind of world will we choose? A world of raw power – or a world of laws?’ Guterres said.

On Ukraine, Trump will meet President Volodymyr Zelensky for the second time since he sat down in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 – a summit that broke Moscow’s isolation in the West but yielded no breakthrough on Ukraine.

Despite Trump’s insistence that he can broker a quick end to the war, Russia has not only kept up its barrage of attacks on Ukraine in the past month but rattled nerves with drone or air incursions in NATO members Poland, Estonia and Romania.

Trump said last week that Putin had ‘really let me down.’