Trump’s Major Retreat on Greenland, and Why Texas Hit Pause on New Data Centers

The president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, is addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York this morning—the first time in the UN’s eight-decade history that a leader of a country at war with the United States has made the trip to the US headquarters. Pezeshkian and a small group of Iranian officials received permission from the State Department to enter the country, and the US Secret Service is protecting him under standard protocol for visiting leaders. His speech comes just one day after President Trump addressed the same assembly, renewing what the episode describes as “scorched earth threats” against Iran.

Trump’s UN Address and the Greenland Agreement

Trump’s remarks at the General Assembly laid out a vision for a winner-takes-all world order that effectively rejected the founding principles of the UN itself. The UN was established after World War II with a charter written largely by the United States, aiming to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” But from the stage, Trump took a strikingly aggressive tone. Beyond threatening to wipe out Iran, he promised Cuba’s government would fall “one way or another” and justified his administration’s sweeping claims on Venezuelan oil by saying “to the victor belong the spoils.”