Trump UNGA Speech Today News Live Updates: US President Donald Trump address the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Trump UNGA Speech Today News Live Updates: US President Donald Trump said he believes Ukraine is capable of reclaiming all the territory it has lost since Russia’s 2022 invasion, one of his strongest expressions of support for Kyiv, just hours after also suggesting that NATO should shoot down Russian aircraft violating its airspace.
Trump’s busy day: Following the speech, Trump is scheduled for several high-stakes bilateral meetings, including with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy and Argentinian leader Javier Milei, a staunch ally of the president. The context for the Argentina meeting comes as the Treasury Department stated this week that it is ready to assist Argentina’s struggling economy. “Argentina is a systemically important US ally in Latin America,” Secretary Scott Bessent said. “Argentina will be Great Again.”
Calls for a Palestinian State: World leaders gather in New York City to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting, where Israel’s war on Gaza and Russia’s war on Ukraine are expected to dominate discussions. Apart from Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and French President Emmanuel Macron are among the leaders taking the podium today. Trump’s address comes amid several countries including France, the UK, Canada, Australia have announced their plans to recognise a Palestinian state in the United Nations General Assembly.
US President Donald Trump said he believes Ukraine is capable of reclaiming all the territory it has lost since Russia’s 2022 invasion, one of his strongest expressions of support for Kyiv, just hours after also suggesting that NATO should shoot down Russian aircraft violating its airspace.
Trump UNGA address LIVE Updates: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday evening that if US President Donald Trump really wants a Nobel Peace Prize, he needs to work on a solution to stop the war in Gaza. Macron’s remarks came in the backdrop of the United Nations General Assembly meeting, where Trump gave a speech against the endorsement of Palestinian statehood.
Macron, while speaking to France’s BFM TV from New York on Tuesday, said that Trump had the power to put pressure on Israel and end the war. “There is one person who can do something about it, and that is the US President,” he said.
Macron said, “The reason he (Trump) can do more than us, is because we do not supply weapons that allow the war in Gaza to be waged. We do not supply equipment that allows war to be waged in Gaza. The United States of America does.”
Trump UNGA address LIVE Updates: US President Donald Trump convened a high-stakes meeting with leaders from Arab and Muslim-majority nations on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, concerning the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Describing the talks as his "most important meeting", Trump said, “We want to end the war in Gaza. We’re going to end it. Maybe we can end it right now.”
“This is my most important meeting,” he told the press. “But this is the one that’s very important to me because we’re going to end something that should have probably never started.”
US President Donald Trump has said that NATO countries should shoot down the Russian aircrafts if they violate their national airspace, escalating his rhetoric against President Vladimir Putin led Kremlin as the war in Ukraine drags on. Trump also suggested that Ukraine could restore all its territory lost to Russia during the war that began in February 2022 when Moscow invaded Kyiv.
An escalator at the UN headquarters that abruptly halted just as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it was stalled after a videographer accompanying them likely triggered a safety mechanism inadvertently while trying to capture their arrival, a UN spokesperson has said.
The incident occurred Tuesday morning as Trump and the First Lady were making their way to the General Assembly hall for the US President's address to world leaders at the high-level 80th session of the UN General Assembly.
In scenes that were broadcast live and widely viewed across the globe, the escalator near the Delegate's entrance suddenly stopped soon after Trump and Melania stepped onto it. The abrupt halt briefly jolted the couple, who waited momentarily at the escalator and forced the First Lady to walk up the stalled escalator, with the President following closely behind.
Responding to questions on the incident, Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the President, First Lady, and their delegation had entered through the Delegate's entrance and passed through the security gates before approaching the escalator.
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If US President Donald Trump really wants to win the Nobel peace prize, he needs to stop the war in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. Speaking to France's BFM TV from New York, Macron said only Trump had the power to put pressure on Israel to end the war.
"There is one person who can do something about it, and that is the US president," Macron said. "And the reason he can do more than us, is because we do not supply weapons that allow the war in Gaza to be waged. We do not supply equipment that allows war to be waged in Gaza. The United States of America does."
Trump gave a combative, wide-ranging speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that rejected moves by Western allies to endorse a Palestinian state, saying that would be a reward for Hamas militants. "We have to stop the war in Gaza immediately. We have to immediately negotiate peace," Trump said.
Discussing Trump's speech, Macron said: "I see an American president who is involved, who reiterated this morning from the podium: 'I want peace. I have resolved seven conflicts', who wants the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize is only possible if you stop this conflict," Macron said.
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Tom Barrack, US special envoy for Syria has said that Israel and Syria are pursuing a de-escalation agreement with the backing of the United States that would be the first step towards a security agreement between the two countries, CNN reported.
Some countries' leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change. But the world US President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn't match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with.
Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing. “This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion," Trump said.
“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”
Trump has long been a critic of climate science and polices aimed at helping the world transition to green energies like wind and solar. His speech Tuesday, however, was one of his most expansive to date. It included false statements and making connections between things that are not connected.
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According to Stephane Dujarric, UN Secretary General spokesperson “a built-in safety mechanism” on the escalator was triggered, causing it to stop when the US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attempted to use it.
"President Trump, accompanied by the First Lady and delegation, arrived at the UNHQ building this morning, and entered through the Delegate’s entrance. After passing through the security gates, President Trump and the First Lady approached the escalator," Dujarric said.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has called to fire the person involved in the escalator incident, wherein when the US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attempted to use the escalator while visiting the United Nations headquarters in New York, it immediately stopped.
Quoting a report from The Times, Leavitt in a post on X said, "If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately."
If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately.
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 23, 2025
The Times reported this on Sunday.👇 pic.twitter.com/NitsWbGYG0
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that NATO nations should shoot down the Russian aircrafts if they violate their airspace, escalating his rhetoric against President Vladimir Putin led Kremlin as the war in Ukraine drags on.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for a "criminal proceedings" against US officials, including President Donald Trump over the US strikes against the alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean.
During his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Petro questioned, “Was it really necessary on unarmed poor young people in the Caribbean?”
Petro added that those targeted "might have had a certain amount of drugs, (they) were not drug traffickers," CNN reported.
US President Donald Trump castigated the United Nations as a feckless institution in a speech to the world body on Tuesday, praising the turn America has taken under his leadership while warning Europe will be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a “double-tailed monster” of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies.
His roughly hourlong speech before the UN General Assembly was both grievance-filled and self-congratulatory as he used the platform to applaud his second-term achievements and lament that some of his fellow world leaders' countries were “going to hell.
"The address was the latest reminder for US allies and foes that the United States after a four-year interim under the more internationalist President Joe Biden has returned to an unapologetically “America First” posture with an antagonistic view toward the United Nations.
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A meeting between US President Donald Trump and leaders of Muslim countries focused on ending the ongoing war in Gaza and reaching a permanent ceasefire, the Emirati state news agency WAM said on Wednesday.
The news agency said releasing all hostages and taking steps towards addressing the worsening humanitarian crisis in the war-torn enclave were also discussed as priorities at the meeting.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and included leaders from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan, WAM added.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, during his speech at the UN General Assembly to address global challenges, said that the "world is breaking down" due to isolationism.
Macron in his address in New York said, "We’re isolating ourselves. There’s more and more divisions, and that’s plagued the global order. The world is breaking down, and that’s halting our collective capacity to resolve the major conflicts of our time and stopping us from addressing global challenges."
With global peace and progress under siege, the United Nations chief challenged world leaders Tuesday to choose a future where the rule of law triumphs over raw power and where nations come together rather than scramble for self-interests.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the UN's founders faced the same questions 80 years ago, but he told today's world leaders at the opening of their annual gathering at the General Assembly that the choice of peace or war, law or lawlessness, cooperation or conflict, is “more urgent, more intertwined, more unforgiving.”
“We have entered in an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering,” he said in his annual “State of the World” speech. “The pillars of peace and progress are buckling under the weight of impunity, inequality and indifference.”
But despite all the internal and external challenges facing the UN, he and General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock pleaded with its members not to give up. “If we stop doing the right things, evil will prevail,” Baerbock said in her opening remarks.
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During the United Nations Security Council meeting at its headquarters in New York on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the war in Ukraine "cannot end militarily", hours after President Donald Trump said that he believes Kyiv can win all of Ukraine back from Russia and that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led country could continue to fight and win.
"The United States remains as committed as it’s ever been to a peaceful resolution to this dangerous conflict. It will end at a negotiating table. That’s where this war will end," said Rubio, CNN reported.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the move by several European nations to recognise the Palestinian state was a reward to Hamas for the atrocities it committed on October 7, 2023.
“As if to encourage continued conflict, some in this body seek to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state,” Trump said. “This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th,” Trump said while speaking to world leaders at the UN General Assembly. Read More
US President Donald Trump Tuesday returned to the United Nations stage after six years and mounted a blistering attack on the world body, accusing it of pushing a “globalist migration agenda” and urging countries to close their borders and expel foreigners. Read More
While other leaders highlighted the climate crisis, Trump used his UN speech to attack climate science.
He described climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetuated on the world” and called it a “fake energy catastrophe.”
“The carbon footprint is a hoax, made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction,” he said.
Trump targeted the UN for allegedly supporting illegal migration, though he did not mention the UN’s humanitarian work.
He appeared to reference the International Organization of Migration, which assists migrants and helps create legal pathways.
“The UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and then we have to get them out. The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens,” he said.
President Trump launched a sharp critique of immigration across Europe, urging allies to follow his US policies. “We’ve taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border… they simply stopped coming,” he said.
He described Europe’s immigration rates as part of a “globalist migration agenda” and warned, “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. Your countries are going to hell.”
President Trump said that “Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace” since the October 7 attack.
While briefly acknowledging the need to stop the war in Gaza, he focused on recovering hostages. “We’ve got to get the hostages back. We want all 20 back. We don’t want two and four,” he said.
Trump claimed he has been “deeply engaged” in seeking a ceasefire in Gaza, where more than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed. “We have to stop the war in Gaza immediately. We have to get it done. We have to negotiate peace,” he said.
He added, “We want actually the 38 dead bodies back too,” and reiterated that Western recognition of a Palestinian state was a “reward” for Hamas, a claim rejected by the Palestinian group.
Trump went on to criticise China and India for funding the ongoing war in Ukraine by purchasing Russian oil, and he expressed frustration at some NATO nations for continuing to buy Russian energy.
“China and India are primary funders the ongoing war in Ukraine, by purchasing Russian oil. But inexcusably some NATO nations not cut off much Russian energy. Some European nations are purchasing oil from Russia and fighting it. It's embarrassing,” he said.
The President also warned that if Russia refuses to negotiate an end to the war, the US is prepared to impose “a very strong round of powerful tariffs.” He urged European allies to adopt the same measures, adding, “You’re much closer to the city. We have an ocean in between. You’re right there, and Europe has to step it up. They can’t be doing what they’re doing. They’re buying oil and gas from Russia.”
Trump criticised the United Nations for failing to support his foreign policy initiatives.
Trump repeated his disputed claim that he has “ended seven wars” since returning to office. He said, “The UN has such tremendous potential. I’ve always said it. All they seem to do is issue strongly worded letters and then never act on them. Words alone don’t resolve conflicts—only decisive action does.”
Trump spent a significant portion of his speech highlighting his administration’s crackdown on “illegal” immigration, urging other nations to adopt similar measures.
He praised El Salvador for “the successful and professional job they’ve done in receiving and jailing so many criminals that entered our country,” referring to the controversial policy of sending hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants to a high-security prison—a practice that has faced legal scrutiny in the US.
At the UN podium, Trump warned other world leaders that their countries could face the “exact same situation,” claiming that unchecked immigration is “destroying your country” and urging them to take immediate action.
Trump is delivering remarks similar to his usual domestic addresses, criticising his predecessor Joe Biden.
“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,” Trump said.
“Since that day, the guns of war have shattered the peace I forged on two continents,” he added.
He claimed an era of calm gave way to “great crises” and accused the previous administration of “weakness, lawlessness and radicalism.”
Trump said these failures delivered the nation into “a repeated set of disasters.”
Trump told world representatives that the US is “the hottest country anywhere in the world” and “the best country on Earth to do business.”
He claimed the current economy is “bigger and even better” than during his first term, calling it “the greatest … in the history of the world.”
Trump added that the US is “respected again” like never before. (AP)
Donald Trump began his UN General Assembly address by joking about a malfunctioning teleprompter, saying, “Whoever’s operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has started his address, continuing the tradition of Brazil being the first country to speak at the UN General Assembly’s General Debate.
The UN General Assembly in New York officially opened its 80th session on Tuesday, with Secretary-General António Guterres delivering the opening remarks.
“Eighty years ago, in a world scorched by war, leaders made a choice, cooperation over chaos, law over lawlessness, peace over conflict, and that choice gave birth to the United Nations, not as a dream for perfection, but as a practical strategy for survival of humanity,” Guterres said.
He added, “Eighty years on, we confront again the question our founders faced, only more urgent, more intertwined, more unforgiving.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be the first leader to address the assembly, with former US President Donald Trump scheduled to follow at approximately 9:50 a.m. EST.
At the UN General Assembly on Monday, France became the latest global power to recognise Palestine statehood, a day after the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia did so.
Portugal, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco have also confirmed their recognition of a State of Palestine.
Israel has criticised the move, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stating that “the calls to create a Palestinian state…constitute an absurd prize for terrorism”. Read More
Israel-Palestine News LIVE Updates: Former US vice president Kamala Harris, in her upcoming book, wrote that Joe Biden could not show Gazans "the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians".
“I had pleaded with Joe, when he spoke publicly on this issue, to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians,” she wrote in her book “107 Days,” according to excerpts published by Axios.
“But he couldn’t do it: While he could passionately state, ‘I am a Zionist,’ his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced,” she wrote.
Israel-Palestine News LIVE Updates: German chancellor Friedrich Merz hit out at Hamas over "dehumanising footage of the German-Israeli national Alon Ohel", calling the video "unbearable".
Calling for a ceasefire, Merz said in a post on X, “The dehumanizing footage of the German-Israeli national Alon Ohel, which Hamas published of all times on Rosh Hashanah, is unbearable. Hamas must immediately release all hostages."
“The ceasefire must come now, the suffering must end,” he added.
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsDie menschenverachtenden Aufnahmen des deutsch-israelischen Staatsangehörigen Alon Ohel, die die Hamas ausgerechnet zu Rosh ha-Schana veröffentlicht hat, sind unerträglich. Hamas muss sofort alle Geiseln freilassen. Der Waffenstillstand muss jetzt kommen, das Leiden muss enden.
— Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (@bundeskanzler) September 22, 2025
The week began with a high-profile meeting chaired by France and Saudi Arabia focused on garnering support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The hours-long conference ended late Monday with several countries, including France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco, announcing or confirming their recognition of a Palestinian state, a day after the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Portugal did. Germany, Italy and Japan took part in the conference but did not recognize such a state.
The US and Israel boycotted the event, saying the international push for a Palestinian state rewards Hamas and makes it harder to reach a deal to halt the war and return the remaining hostages.
It came as several US allies, including Canada and the United Kingdom, announced recognition of an independent Palestinian state over the weekend. The meeting and expanded recognition of Palestinian statehood will likely have little if any actual impact on the ground.
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Spain's top diplomat dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that there will never be a Palestinian state, saying Israelis will one day want to live side by side in peace with Palestinians.
Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday that “a real wave” of countries have recognized the state of Palestine since Spain, Ireland and Norway did in May 2024 and an overwhelming number support a two-state solution to the nearly 80-year Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The day that everyone will have recognized the state of Palestine, we will have to move forward,” he said at the United Nations. “I'm sure that we will find someday the right people for peace on the Israel side, in the same way that we have found it in the Palestinian side" in the Palestinian Authority.
Spain has been in the forefront in pressuring Israel to end the war in Gaza sparked by Hamas' surprise invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, criticizing “the atrocities” and “endless killing” it is committing in the territory.
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After several Western nations announced that they will be formally announcing their acceptance to a Palestinian state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the move and said the leaders are "rewarding terrorism" by recognising Palestine.
While referring to Gaza -based Hamas militant group's 2023 attack on Israel, Netanyahu said, "I have a clear message to those leaders who recognise a Palestinian state after the horrific massacre of October 7: You are giving a huge reward to terrorism."
Netanyahu further added, "And I have another message for you: It will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River."
US President Donald Trump is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly today as the world grapples with a crisis in Gaza, Ukraine and the Trump administration has also pulled US support from several UN organisations. A Reuters report stated that about 150 heads of state are expected to address the UNGA session this week, including Trump who will speak after the session opens at 9 am EDT (local time).
The UN General Assembly session takes place as the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza approaches its second year on October 7, when the Hamas militant group attacked Tel Aviv and killed over 1,200 people while taking another 250 as hostage, the Israeli government has said.
The Trump administration and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu have declined to agree for a Palestinian statehood, while several Western nations, including France, Australia, Canada, the UK have given their official agreement to the matter.
The Israeli military is continuing its ground incursion in Gaza City which was launched last week and have intensified their assault by dismantling underground shafts and destroying high-rise structures.
The strikes by the Israeli military in the territory of Gaza City killed at least 60 Palestinians, Reuters reported, quoting Gaza health authorities.
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