“I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless, and that way you speak more from the heart. I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.

Hello, Madam First Lady. Thank you very much for being here. And Madam President, Mr. Secretary General, First Lady of the United States, distinguished delegates, ambassadors, and world leaders.

Six years have passed since I last stood in this grand hall and addressed a world that was prosperous and at peace. In my first term since that day, the guns of war have shattered the peace I forged on two continents. An era of calm and stability gave way to one of the great crises of our time.

And here in the United States, four years of weakness, lawlessness, and radicalism under the last administration delivered our nation into a repeated set of disasters. One year ago, our country was in deep trouble. But today, just eight months into my administration, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world, and there is no other country even close.

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America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any nation on the face of the earth. This is indeed the golden age of America. We are rapidly reversing the economic calamity that we inherited from the previous administration, including ruinous price increases and record-setting inflation— inflation like we’ve never had before.

Under my leadership, energy costs are down, gasoline prices are down, grocery prices are down, mortgage rates are down, and inflation has been defeated. The only thing that’s up is the stock market, which just hit a record high. In fact, it hit a record high 48 times in the last short period of time. Growth is surging, manufacturing is booming. The stock market, as I said, is doing better than it’s ever done. And all of you in this room benefit by that.

Almost everybody, and importantly workers, wages are rising at the fastest pace in more than 60 years. And that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? In four years of President Biden, we had less than $1 trillion of new investment into the United States. In just eight months since I took office, we have secured commitments and money already paid for $17 trillion. Think of it—four years, less than a trillion. Eight months, much more than $17 trillion is being invested in the United States, and it’s now pouring in from all parts of the world.

We’ve implemented the largest tax cuts in American history and the largest regulation cuts in American history, making this once again the best country on earth to do business. Many of the people in this room are investing in America, and it’s turned out to be an awfully good investment during this eight-month period.

In my first term, I built the greatest economy in the history of the world. We had the best economy ever. And I’m doing the same thing again, but this time it’s actually much bigger and even better. The numbers far surpass my record-setting first term.

On our southern border, we have successfully repelled a colossal invasion. For the last four months, that’s four months in a row, the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero. Hard to believe, because if you look back just a year ago, it was millions and millions of people pouring in from all over the world—from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers all over the world. They came. They just poured into our country with the ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration.

Our message is very simple: if you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail, or you’re going back to where you came from, or perhaps even further than that—you know what that means. I want to thank the country of El Salvador for the successful and professional job they’ve done in receiving and jailing so many criminals that entered our country. It was under the previous administration that the number became record-setting, and they’re all being taken out.

We have no choice, and other countries have no choice because other countries are in the exact same situation with immigration. It’s destroying your country, and you have to do something about it on the world stage.

America is respected again, like it has never been respected before. Think about two years ago, three years ago, four years ago, or even one year ago—we were a laughingstock all over the world.

At the NATO Summit in June, virtually all NATO members formally committed to increase defense spending, at my request, from 2% to 5% of GDP, making our alliance far stronger and more powerful than it was ever before.

In May, I traveled to the Middle East to visit my friends and rebuild our partnerships in the Gulf. Those valued relationships with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and other countries are now, I believe, closer than ever before.

My administration has negotiated one historic trade deal after another, including with the United Kingdom, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and many, many others. Likewise, in a period of just seven months, I have ended seven unenviable wars. They said they were unenviable, that you’d never get them solved. Some were going on for 31 years, two of them 31. One was 36 years, one was 28 years. I ended seven wars, and in all cases, they were raging with countless thousands of people being killed.

This includes Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, a vicious, violent war that was Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. It included all of them. No president, no prime minister, and for that matter, no other country has ever done anything close to that—and I did it in just seven months. It’s never happened before. It’s never been anything like that. I’m very honored to have done it.

It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them. Sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help. 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 finalize the deal. All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, on the way up, stopped right in the middle. If the First Lady wasn’t in great shape, she would have fallen—but she’s in great shape. We’re both in good shape. We both stood. And then a teleprompter didn’t work. These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.

Thank you very much. And by the way, it’s working now. Just went on. Thank you. I think I should just do it the other way—it’s easier. Thank you very much.

I didn’t think of it at the time because I was too busy working to save millions of lives—that is, the saving and stopping of these wars. But later, I realized that the United Nations wasn’t there for us. They weren’t there. I thought of it really after the fact, not during these negotiations, which were not easy. That being the case, what is the purpose of the United Nations?

The UN has such tremendous potential. I’ve always said it. It has such tremendous, tremendous potential. But it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential—for the most part, at least for now. All they seem to do is write a strongly worded letter and then never follow it up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war is action.

After ending all of these wars, and also earlier negotiating the Abraham Accords—which is a very big thing for which our country received no credit, never receives credit—everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements. But for me, the real prize is the sons and daughters who lived to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people are no longer being killed in endless and gloriously destructive wars. What I care about is not winning prizes—it’s saving lives. We saved millions and millions of lives with the seven wars, and we have others that we’re working on.

Many years ago, a very successful real estate developer in New York, known as Donald J. Trump, bid on the renovation and rebuilding of this very United Nations complex. I remember it so well. I said at the time that I would do it for $500 million—rebuilding everything beautifully. I talked about marble floors; they were going to give you terrazzo. I said I’d give you the best of everything. You were going to have mahogany walls; they were going to give you plastic.

But they decided to go in another direction, which was much more expensive at the time and actually produced a far inferior product. I realized they did not know what they were doing when it came to construction, that their building concepts were so wrong, and the product they were proposing to build was so bad and costly it was going to cost them a fortune. And I said, wait till you see the overruns. Well, I turned out to be right—they had massive cost overruns and spent between $2 and $4 billion on the building, and did not even get the marble floors that I promised them. You walk onto Rasa, you notice that, as far as I’m concerned, they still haven’t finished the job.

The project was so corrupt that Congress actually asked me to testify before them on the tremendous waste of money. They had no idea what it was but knew it was anywhere between $2 and $4 billion, as opposed to $500 million with a guarantee. I said it cost much more than $5 billion. Unfortunately, many things in the United Nations are happening just like that—but on an even much bigger scale, much, much bigger. It’s very sad to see whether the UN can manage to play a productive role.

I’ve come here today to offer the hand of American leadership and friendship to any nation in this assembly willing to join us in forging a safer, more prosperous world. It’s a world that will be much happier, and a dramatically better future is within our reach. But to get there, we must reject the failed approaches of the past and work together to confront some of the greatest threats in history.

There is no more serious danger to our planet today than the most powerful and destructive weapons ever devised by man. The United States, as you know, has many. Just as I did in my first term, I’ve made containing these threats a top priority, starting with the nation of Iran. My position is very simple: the world’s number one sponsor of terror can never be allowed to possess the most dangerous weapon.

Shortly after taking office, I sent the so-called Supreme Leader a letter making a generous offer. I extended a pledge of full cooperation in exchange for a suspension of Iran’s nuclear program. The regime’s answer was to continue their constant threats to their neighbors and U.S. interests throughout the region.

Today, many of Iran’s former military commanders, in fact almost all of them, are no longer with us—they’re dead. Three months ago, in Operation Midnight Hammer, seven American B-2 bombers dropped fourteen 30,000-pound bombs on Iran’s key nuclear facilities, totally obliterating everything. No other country on earth could have done what we did. No other country has the equipment to do what we did. We have the greatest weapons on earth. We hate to use them, but we did something that, for 22 years, people wanted to do: Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity demolished. I immediately brokered an end to the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, with both sides agreeing to fight no further.

Fight no longer. As everyone knows, I have also been deeply engaged in seeking a ceasefire in Gaza. We have to get that done—we have to get it done. Unfortunately, Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace. We can’t forget October 7th, can we?

Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th. Even while they refused to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire, instead of giving in to Hamas and giving so much because they’ve taken so much—they have taken so much—this could have been solved so long ago.

But instead of giving in to Hamas’s ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message: release the hostages now. Just release the hostages now.

We have got to come together, and we will come together. We’re going to get it done. We have to stop the war in Gaza immediately. We have to get it done. We have to negotiate immediately. We have to negotiate peace. We’ve got to get the hostages back. We want all 20 back. We don’t want two or four.

As you know, I got along with Steve Witkoff and others who helped us. Marco Rubio—we got most of them back. We were involved in all of them. But I always said the last 20 are going to be the hardest—and that’s exactly what happened. We have to get them back now. We don’t want to get back two, then one, then three in a slow process. No, we want them all back. And we want the 38 dead bodies returned to their parents quickly and respectfully, as though they were alive. They want them—they want them very badly.

I’ve also been working relentlessly to stop the killing in Ukraine. I thought that would be one of the seven wars I stopped. I thought that would be the easiest because of my relationship with President Putin, which had always been a good one. I thought it was going to be the easiest one. But in war, you never know what’s going to happen. There are always lots of surprises, both good and bad.

Everyone thought Russia would win this war in three days, but it didn’t work out that way. It was supposed to be just a quick little skirmish. It’s not making Russia look good—it’s making them look bad, no matter what happens from here on out. This was something that should have taken a matter of days, certainly less than a week. And they’ve been fighting for three and a half years, killing anywhere from 5,000 to 7,000 young soldiers, mostly on both sides, every single week, with additional deaths in cities where rockets are shot and drones are dropped.

This war would never have started if I were president. It shows what leadership—or bad leadership—can do to a country. Look at what happened to the United States and where we are right now in just a short period of time. The only question now is: how many more lives will be needlessly lost on both sides?

China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil. Even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products, which, as you know, I found out about two weeks ago—and I wasn’t happy. Think of it—they’re funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that one?

In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of tariffs, which I believe would stop the bloodshed very quickly. But for those tariffs to be effective, European nations—all of you gathered here right now—would have to join us in adopting the exact same measures. You’re much closer to this conflict than we are. Europe has to step it up. They can’t continue buying oil and gas from Russia while fighting Russia. It’s embarrassing to them—and it was very embarrassing when I found out about it. They have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise, we’re wasting a lot of time.

I’m ready to discuss this. We’re going to discuss it today with the European nations gathered here. I like to speak my mind and speak the truth.

As we seek to reduce the threat of dangerous weapons, today I’m also calling on every nation to join us in ending the development of biological weapons once and for all. Biological weapons are terrible, and nuclear weapons are even more dangerous. We want to have a cessation of the development of nuclear weapons.

We know, and I know, and I get to view it all the time—these are weapons so powerful that we just can’t ever use them. If we ever used them, the world literally might come to an end. There would be no United Nations to talk about. There would be nothing. Just a few years ago, reckless experiments overseas gave us a devastating global pandemic. Yet, despite that worldwide catastrophe, many countries continue extremely risky research into bioweapons and man-made pathogens. This is unbelievably dangerous.

To prevent potential disasters, I’m announcing today that my administration will lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention, which is going to be meeting with the top leaders of the world by pioneering an age verification system that everyone can trust. Hopefully, the UN can play a constructive role, and it will also be one of the early projects under AI. Let’s see how good it is, because a lot of people are saying it could be one of the greatest things ever. It also can be dangerous, but it can be put to tremendous use and tremendous good—and this would be an example of that.

Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, often it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve. The best example is the number one political issue of our time: the crisis of uncontrolled migration. It’s uncontrolled. Your countries are being ruined. The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders.

In 2024, the UN budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States. Think of that—the UN is supporting people illegally coming into the United States, and then we have to remove them. The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards to illegal aliens. Can you believe it? Millions of people came through our southern border just a year ago—millions and millions—25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration. And now we have it stopped. Totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through.

But what took place is totally unacceptable. The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them. In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime, and deplete our social safety net. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people, and I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well.

I see it happening. I’m not mentioning names, but your countries are being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe. Nobody has done anything to stop it. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they are doing absolutely nothing about it.

I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor—it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you’re in a different country—you can’t do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy policies will be the death of Western Europe. If something is not done immediately, this cannot be sustained.

What makes the world beautiful is that each country is unique. But to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control its own borders. You have the right to control your borders, as we do now, and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering your countries, paid for by the people of that nation who built that country with their blood, sweat, tears, and money. Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before, with different customs, religions, and ways of life.

Where migrants have violated laws, lodged false asylum claims, or claimed refugee status for illegitimate reasons, they should, in many cases, be immediately sent home. While we will always have a big heart for places and people that are struggling and truly compassionate, solutions must be implemented in their countries—not create new problems in ours.

We have been very helpful to many countries that are unable to send their people back. They used to send them to us in caravans of 25,000–30,000 people each—massive caravans pouring into our country, totally unchecked and unvetted. But not anymore.

According to the Council of Europe, in 2024 almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Austria, the number was 53%. In Greece, 54%. In Switzerland, 72%. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repay kindness with crime, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now.

I can tell you, I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell—America acted boldly to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border illegally, they simply stopped coming. They’re not coming anymore. We’re getting credit for it—but this was a humanitarian act for all involved. On the journey up, thousands of people a week were dying; women were being raped. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.

The journey was long and arduous, loaded with death along roads and through jungles—so hot people couldn’t breathe, suffocating, dead bodies all along the way. What we did was a historic victory against human trafficking. We saved countless lives of people who wouldn’t make the journey. My people have done a fantastic job, and the American public agrees. I was proud this morning to see I have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had—partly because of what we’ve done on the border and partly because of what we’ve done on the economy.

Joe Biden’s policies empowered murderous gangs, human smugglers, child traffickers, drug cartels, and prisoners from all over the world. The previous administration also lost nearly 300,000 children—little children trafficked into the United States, many raped, exploited, abused, and sold. Nobody talks about that.

We have found a lot of these children and are returning them to their parents. The parents rush to the door, tears in their eyes, unable to believe they are seeing their son or daughter again. We’ve done almost 30,000 of them so far. Any system that results in the trafficking of children is inherently evil. Yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done. Those days are over.

The Trump administration is continuing to track down the villains causing this problem and returning the children we’ve already found. We are also taking action against drug cartels. Fewer people are now taking large shipments of drugs by sea—these “water drugs” kill hundreds of thousands of people.

I’ve also designated multiple savage drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, along with two bloodthirsty transnational gangs—probably the worst gangs anywhere in the world: MS-13 and Tren de Aragua. Tren de Aragua is from Venezuela, by the way. Such organizations torture, maim, mutilate, and murder with impunity. They’re the enemies of all humanity.

For this reason, we’ve recently begun using the supreme power of the United States military to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicolás Maduro, targeting every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America. Please be warned: we will blow you out of existence. That’s what we’re doing. We have no choice. We can’t let it happen. They’re destroying lives. I believe we lost 300,000 people last year to drugs—fentanyl and other drugs. Each boat we sink carries drugs that would kill more than 25,000 Americans. We will not let that happen.

Energy is another area where the United States is now thriving like never before. We’re getting rid of the falsely named “renewables.” By the way, they’re a joke. They don’t work, they’re too expensive, and they’re not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. Those big windmills are so pathetic, so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time—they start to rust and rot. It’s the most expensive energy ever conceived. You’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose it. You can’t operate these systems without massive subsidies, and most of them are built in China.

I give China credit—they build them, though they very rarely use them. They use coal, gas, almost anything—but not wind. They sure like selling windmills, though. Europe, on the other hand, has a long way to go, with many countries being on the brink of destruction because of the green energy agenda. I give a lot of credit to Germany. Germany was being led down a very sick path—both on immigration and on energy. They were going green and going bankrupt. But new leadership came in, reverted to fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and opened up many energy plants. They’re doing well. I give Germany a lot of credit for that.

In America, we’ve also strengthened public safety. New York City feels safer. Crime is down. Washington, D.C., was the crime capital of America, but now, after 12 days of action, it’s a totally safe city. Everyone can go out to dinner, walk freely, and enjoy restaurants. My people have done a fantastic job. We removed 1,700 career criminals—sending them back to their countries or putting them in jail.

Regarding energy and resources, countries like the UK have untapped assets, including tremendous oil reserves in the North Sea. I encouraged them to use these assets instead of destroying landscapes with windmills and solar panels. Green energy policies have caused enormous economic damage globally. The carbon footprint is a hoax created by people with evil intentions. Despite sacrifices in Europe, global emissions continue to rise, mainly from China and other developing nations. The so-called climate policies redistribute wealth while harming developed nations.

The United States, under my administration, has unleashed massive energy production, including oil, gas, and coal—clean and beautiful coal. We stand ready to provide any country with abundant, affordable energy if needed. Trade and energy policies must be fair and reciprocal. Countries that previously exploited the U.S. through tariffs are now facing consequences. We defend our sovereignty and citizens against unfair practices worldwide, including actions by the Biden administration.

Next year, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence, and we will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics. These will be celebrations of liberty and human achievement, reflecting the enduring power and spirit of our nation. I hope all countries inspired by our example will join in renewing commitments to free speech, religious liberty, sovereignty, and national traditions.

In closing, immigration and the high cost of so-called green renewable energy are destroying a large part of the free world. Strong borders and traditional energy sources are essential for nations to thrive. Every leader in this hall represents a proud heritage, rich culture, and noble history. Our ancestors built nations with courage, strength, and skill. It is now our duty to protect our citizens, preserve our cultures, and safeguard freedoms. Together, we can build a bright, beautiful planet—a world richer, safer, and more prosperous than ever before.

Thank you very much. It’s been an honor. God bless the nations of the world.”

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