President Donald Trump delivered a forceful address at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, sharply criticizing the international body for what he described as failures in addressing immigration and global conflicts.
Speaking to assembled world leaders, Trump painted the U.N. as an organization with “tremendous potential” that has consistently fallen short, contrasting its shortcomings with his own record on domestic and foreign policy.
Trump singled out U.N. funding that supports immigrants entering the United States illegally.
According to the president, the organization allocated $374 million in cash assistance to roughly 624,000 illegal immigrants in 2024, in addition to providing food, transportation and debit cards.
“Think of that—the U.N. is supporting people who are illegally coming into the United States, and then we have to get them out,” he said, framing the aid as a breach of American sovereignty.
Trump went on to blame the U.N. and its member nations for the surge in immigration during the Biden administration, asserting that millions crossed the southern border last year alone.
He framed this as the result of lax enforcement and international complicity, according to Trending Politics.
“Now we have it stopped, totally stopped—people know they can’t get