Trump to take aim at ‘globalist institutions,’ tout his foreign policy record in UN speech

Watched by the world, US President Donald Trump returns to the United Nations later today to deliver a wide-ranging address on his second-term foreign policy achievements and lament that “globalist institutions have significantly decayed the world order,” according to the White House.

World leaders will be listening closely to his remarks at the UN General Assembly, as Trump has already moved quickly to diminish US support for the world body in his first eight months in office. Even in his first term, he was no fan of the flavor of multilateralism that the United Nations espouses.

After his latest inauguration, he issued a first-day executive order withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization. That was followed by his move to end US participation in the UN Human Rights Council, and ordering up a review of US membership in hundreds of intergovernmental organizations aimed at determining whether they align with the priorities of his “America First” agenda.

“There are great hopes for it, but it’s not being well run, to be honest,” Trump said of the UN last week.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says Trump will tout “the renewal of American strength around the world” and his efforts to help end several wars.

“The president will also touch upon how globalist institutions have significantly decayed the world order, and he will articulate his straightforward and constructive vision for the world,” Leavitt says.

Leavitt also says the announcement of Palestinian state recognition by a number of countries is seen by Trump as “just more talk and not enough action from some of our friends and allies.”