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5 min readPresident Trump delivered a combative, campaign-style address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, framing his foreign policy as a choice between peace through strength and outright annihilation, while his administration simultaneously held rare face-to-face talks with Iranian officials on the sidelines. The speech, roughly 35 minutes long, was a split-screen message: Trump touted himself as a peacemaker who has stopped wars, yet he openly mused about destroying Iran and called for the fall of Cuba’s regime. The performance was widely seen as a pitch to American voters ahead of the midterm elections, not a diplomatic overture to the assembled world leaders.
Trump’s UN Speech: Peacemaker or Warmonger?
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- 1 (01:02) **Trump's UN Speech: Peace Through Strength and Threats** - President Trump delivers a roughly 35-minute address to the UN General Assembly, blending a defense of his foreign policy with warnings of military action.
- 2 (04:26) **Trump's Sideline Meetings & US-Iran Talks** - After the speech, Trump holds pro forma meetings with world leaders, including a notable development on Iran.
- 3 (05:26) **Greenland Agreement & Diesel Export Consideration** - Trump announces a new agreement with Denmark for military bases in Greenland and floats a policy to curb diesel prices.
- 4 (06:00) **Saudi Oil Pipeline Testing & Market Reaction** - Saudi Arabia tests its East-West oil pipeline, potentially restarting crude exports soon and pushing oil prices down.
- 5 (07:40) **Senator Calls for Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.** - Utah Senator John Curtis urges a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr. over a lavish wedding gift from a Russian businessman.
- 6 (08:24) **JD Vance's Task Force Purges Obamacare Enrollments** - Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force cancels subsidies for 760,000 accounts, claiming they are fraudulent.
- 7 (09:08) **Cornell Report on Higher Education Crisis** - A special faculty committee at Cornell University issues a 200-page report outlining an "unprecedented crisis" facing universities.
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P.M. Edition for Sept. 22. Speaking to a room of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly today, President Trump tallied his foreign policy wins while presenting the possibility of further military action in Iran and elsewhere. WSJ national security reporter Alex Ward discusses how the speech went over and the outcomes from some of Trump’s closed-door meetings. Plus, a Republican senator has called for an investigation into Donald Trump Jr. after the president’s oldest son disclosed that a Russian oligarch had paid for his wedding afterparty. And venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, along with some of the other biggest names in tech, are backing a new school intended to be an alternative to college. We hear from Journal tech reporter Katie Bindley about what kind of curriculum the school will offer, what kinds of students it wants to attract and what skeptics are saying. Alex Ossola hosts.
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