Trump Blasts UN Over Immigration, Climate in Combative Speech
Catherine Lucey, Josh Wingrove and Jennifer A. Dlouhy
Tue, September 23, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. EDT6 min read
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump assailed the United Nations and other countries in a grievance-laden speech that saw him accuse the world body of offering nothing but “empty words,” label climate change a “con job” and warn that open borders are destroying them.
His closing message swept aside some of the UN’s most cherished files: climate change, which Trump repeatedly called a hoax, and uncontrolled migration, which he declared the top political issue of the era.
“Countries that cherish freedom are fading fast because of their policies on these two subjects. You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you are going to be great again,” Trump said Tuesday, after warning bluntly: “Your countries are going to hell.”
He faulted the UK and Germany over green-energy policies, and Greece and Switzerland for allowing in immigrants. He blasted Brazil for what he said was censorship and repression.Trump reserved his sharpest attacks for other countries’ immigration policies and for UN support for asylum seekers. Trump accused the UN of “funding an assault on western countries and their borders,” citing efforts to provide aid to migrants.
“The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them, and not finance them,” he said. And he cited longstanding complaints from Democrats and Republicans alike, who have often lamented — though rarely in such blunt terms — that the UN has become little more than a talking shop.
