Thank you very much. Very much appreciated. I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter, as it is not working. 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, Madame First Lady. Thank you very much for being here. Madame 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. 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. 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 we inherited from the previous administration, including runaway price increases and record-setting inflation like we have 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 is 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. Growth is surging, manufacturing is booming. The stock market, as I said, is doing better than it has ever done, and almost all of you in this room benefit from that. Importantly, workers' wages are rising at the fastest pace in more than 60 years, and that is what it is 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 $1 trillion; eight months, much more than $17 trillion is being invested in the United States, and it is now pouring in from all parts of the world. We have 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 has 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 in the history of the world. I am doing the same thing again, but this time it is 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, and that is four months in a row, the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero. This is hard to believe because if you look back just a year ago, there were millions of people pouring in from all over the world: from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers. 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 are going to jail or you are going back to where you came from, or perhaps even further than that.

I want to thank the country of El Salvador for the successful and professional job they have done in receiving and jailing so many criminals that entered our country. Under the previous administration, these numbers became record-setting, and they are 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 is 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, three, four, 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 increased 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 unendable wars. They said they were unendable; you are never going to get them solved. Some were going for 31 years; two of them for 31 years. Think of it: 31 years. One was 36 years, and one was 28 years. I ended seven wars. 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, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan. No president or 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 has never happened before; there has never been anything like it. I am very honored to have done it. It is too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations. Sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any of them. 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 in finalizing 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 was not in great shape, she would have fallen. But she is in great shape, and we are both in good shape; we both stood. And then a teleprompter that did not work. These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.

I did not think of it at the time because I was too busy working to save millions of lives by stopping these wars. But later, I realized that the United Nations was not there for us. I thought of it 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 have always said it; it has such tremendous potential, but it is 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 that letter up. These are empty words, and empty words do not solve war. The only thing that solves wars 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, everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements. But for me, the real prize will be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people are no longer being killed in endless and inglorious wars. What I care about is not winning prizes; it is saving lives. We saved millions of lives with the seven wars, and we have others that we are 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, and everything would be beautiful. I used to talk about giving them marble floors; they were going to give them terrazzo. I was going to give them the best of everything; they would have mahogany walls. They were going to give them 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 that they did not know what they were doing when it came to construction, and that their building concepts were so wrong, and the product they were proposing to build was so bad and so costly. It was going to cost them a fortune. I said, "And wait until you see the overruns." Well, I turned out to be right. They had massive cost overruns and spent between $2 billion and $4 billion on the building and did not even get the marble floors that I promised them. You walk on terrazzo, do you notice that? As far as I am concerned, frankly, looking at the building and getting stuck on the escalator, they still have not finished the job. That was years ago. The project was so corrupt that Congress actually asked me to testify before them on the tremendous waste of money because it turned out that they had no idea what it was. They knew it was anywhere between $2 billion and $4 billion, as opposed to $500 million with a guarantee. But they had no idea, and I said it would cost much more than $5 billion. Unfortunately, many things in the United Nations are happening just like that, but on a much bigger scale. It is very sad to see whether the UN can manage to play a productive role.

I have come here today to offer the hand of American leadership and friendship to any nation in this assembly that is willing to join us in forging a safer, more prosperous world. 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, of which the United States, as you know, has many. Just as I did in my first term, I have 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. That is why, 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 US interests throughout the region, and to some great countries that are right nearby. Today, many of Iran's former military commanders – in fact, almost all of them – are no longer with us. They are dead. Three months ago, in Operation Midnight Hammer, seven American B2 bombers dropped fourteen 30,000-pound bombs on Iran's key nuclear facility, 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 people wanted to do for 22 years. With Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity demolished, I immediately brokered an end to the 12-day war, as it is called, between Israel and Iran, with both sides agreeing to fight no longer.

As everyone knows, I have also been deeply engaged in seeking a ceasefire in Gaza. We have to get that done. Unfortunately, Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace. We cannot forget October 7th. Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some in this body are seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. This would be a reward for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities, including October 7th, even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire. Instead of giving in to Hamas’s ransom demands – they have taken so much; this could have been solved so long ago – those who want peace should be united with one message: Release the hostages now.

We must come together, and we will come together. We must stop the war in Gaza immediately. We have to negotiate peace immediately. We have to get the hostages back. We want all 20 back; we do not want two and four. As you know, I got along with Steve Witt and others that helped us, Marco Rubio. We got most of them back; we were involved in all of them. But I always said the last 20 would be the hardest, and that is exactly what happened. We have to get them back now. We do not want to get back two, then another two, then one, then three in this process. No, we want them all back. And we want the actually 38 dead bodies back, too. Those parents came to me, and they want them back, and they want them back very quickly and very badly, as though they were alive. They want them every bit as much as if their son or daughter were alive.

I have also been working relentlessly on stopping the killing in Ukraine. I thought that, of the seven wars I stopped, that would be the easiest because of my relationship with President Putin, which had always been a good one. I thought that was going to be the easiest one. But in war, you never know what is 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 did not work out that way. It was supposed to be just a quick little skirmish. It is not making Russia look good; it is 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 have 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. From 5,000 to 7,000 dead young people, and some in cities, where rockets are shot and drones are dropped, in much smaller numbers. This war would never have started if I were President. This was a war that should have never happened. It shows you what leadership is, what bad leadership can do to a country. Look what happened to the United States, and look 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. But inexcusably, 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 was not happy. They are funding the war against themselves. In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the bloodshed, I believe, 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 are much closer to this; we have an ocean in between. You are right there, and Europe has to step it up. They cannot be doing what they are doing. They are buying oil and gas from Russia while they are fighting Russia. It is embarrassing to them, and it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it. I can tell you that they have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise, we are all wasting a lot of time.

So, I am ready to discuss this. We are going to discuss it today with the European nations all gathered here. I am sure they are thrilled to hear me speak about it, but that is the way it is. I like to speak my mind and speak the truth. As we seek to reduce the threat of dangerous weapons today, I am 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 beyond that, and we include nuclear in that. We want to have a cessation of the development of nuclear weapons. We know, and I know, and I get to view them all the time. I look at weapons that are so powerful that we just cannot ever use them. If we ever use them, the world literally might come to an end. There would be no United Nations to be talking 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 are continuing extremely risky research into bioweapons and man-made pathogens. This is unbelievably dangerous. To prevent potential disasters, I am announcing today that my administration will lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention. This will involve meeting with the top leaders of the world by pioneering an AI 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 us see how good it is because a lot of people are saying it could be one of the greatest things ever. But it also can be dangerous, though it could 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, too often it is 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. 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 who 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 on the way to infiltrate our southern border. Millions of people came through that southern border just a year ago. Millions of people were pouring in—25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration. Now we have it stopped; totally stopped. In fact, they are not even coming anymore because they know they cannot get through. 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. You have to do that because I see it. I am not mentioning names, but I see it, and I can call every single one of them out. You are destroying your countries; they are being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe, and nobody is doing anything to change it or to get them out. It is not sustainable. Because they choose to be politically correct, they are doing absolutely nothing about it.

I have to say, I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor. It has been so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you are in a different country; you cannot do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. This cannot be sustained. What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique. But to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders, as we do now, and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering their countries. These are countries built and paid for by the people of that nation, who were there and built that particular nation at the time. They put their blood, sweat, tears, and money into that country, and now they are being ruined. 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 different everything. 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, truly compassionate answers will be given. We have to solve the problem, and we have to solve it in their countries, not create new problems in our countries. We are very helpful to a lot of countries that are just not able to send their people anymore. They used to send them to us in caravans of 25,000-30,000 people each: massive caravans of people 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% of the people in prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Greece, the number was 54%. And in Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness with crime, it is time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. Your countries are going to hell.

In America, we have taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming. They are not coming anymore. We are getting a lot of credit because they are not coming anymore. This was a humanitarian act for all involved because on the trips up, thousands of people a week were dying. Women were being raped, horribly beaten, and raped. Nobody has ever seen anything like it on the journey up; it was a long, arduous journey indeed. It was also a historic victory against human trafficking throughout the region. What we did was a victory, and we saved so many lives of people that would not make the journey. That journey was loaded with death: dead bodies all along the roads of jungles to get up. They go through jungles; they go through areas so hot you cannot breathe. They were dying of suffocation. Dead bodies all over. By them not coming, we are saving tremendous numbers of lives. My people have done a fantastic job, and the American public agrees with it. I was very proud to see this morning I have the highest poll numbers I have ever had. Part of it is because of what we have done on the border, and I guess the other part is what we have done in 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. Think of that: they lost more than 300,000 children, little children who were trafficked into the United States on the Biden watch. Many of whom have been raped, exploited, abused, and sold. Sold. Nobody talks about that; the fake news does not write about it. Many other young children are missing or dead. We found a lot of these children, and we are sending them back to their parents. They said nobody knows who they are. They said, "Where do you come from?" and they will give us a country, and we will find out, and we will figure it out, and we will bring them back to their homes. The mother and father rush to the door, with tears in their eyes. They cannot believe that they are seeing their son or daughter, their little son or daughter, again. We have done almost 30,000 of them so far. Any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil. Yet, that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done, and it is what it is all about. In America, those days, as you know, are over. The Trump administration is working, and we are continuing to work, to track down the villains that are causing this problem. We are also, as I said, working to get back the children. We have already returned 30,000. We are going to find a lot more. You are not going to find all of them; more than 300,000 are lost or they are dead because of the animals that did this.

To protect our citizens, I have also designated multiple savage drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and you see this happening right before your eyes. People do not like taking big loads of drugs in boats anymore. There are not too many boats traveling on the seas by Venezuela. They tend not to want to travel very quickly anymore. We have virtually stopped drugs coming into our country by sea. We call them the water drugs; they kill hundreds of thousands of people. I have 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 are the enemies of all humanity. For this reason, we have recently begun using the supreme power of the United States military to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicolás Maduro. To every terrorist, thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence. That is what we are doing; we have no choice. We cannot let it happen. I believe we lost 300,000 people last year to drugs: 300,000 to fentanyl and other drugs. Each boat that 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 are getting rid of the falsely named renewables. They are a joke; they do not work. They are too expensive; they are not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind does not blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate. Then they have to be rebuilt all the time, and they start to rust and rot. It is the most expensive energy ever conceived. You are supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. If you lose money, the governments have to subsidize. You cannot put them out without massive subsidies, and most of them are built in China. I give China a lot of credit; they build them, but they have very few wind farms. So why is it that they build them and send them all over the world, but they barely use them? They use coal, they use gas, they use almost anything, but they do not like wind. But they sure like selling the windmills.

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, by the way, and on energy. They were going green, and they were going bankrupt. New leadership came in, and they went back to where they were with fossil fuel and with nuclear, which is good. It is now safe, and you can do it properly. But they went back to where they were, and they opened up a lot of different energy-producing plants, and they are doing well. I give Germany a lot of credit for that. They said this is a disaster, what is happening. They were going all green. All green is all bankrupt; that is what it represents. And it is not politically correct. I will be very badly criticized for saying it, but I am here to tell the truth. I do not care; it does not matter to me.

I am in New York City, and I am feeling a lot safer. We are getting crime down. Speaking of crime, Washington D.C. was the crime capital of America. Now, after 12 days, it is a totally safe city. Everyone is going out to dinner; they are going out to restaurants. Your wife can walk down the middle of the street with or without you; nothing is going to happen. My people have done a fantastic job. Yes, I called in the National Guard, and the National Guard took care of business. They were not politically correct, but they took care of business. We got 1,700 career criminals out, brought them back to the countries where they came from, or put them in jails. Washington D.C. is now a totally safe city again, and I welcome you to come. In fact, we will have dinner together at a local restaurant, and we will be able to walk. We do not have to go by an armor-plated vehicle; we will walk right over there from the White House.

Many of the countries we are talking about in oil and gas have given up their powerful edge, such as essentially closing the great North Sea oil. Oh, the North Sea, I know it so well. Aberdeen was the oil capital of Europe. There is tremendous oil that has not been found in the North Sea. I was with the Prime Minister I respect and like a lot, and I said, "You are sitting with the greatest asset." They essentially closed it by making it so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company, can go there. They have tremendous oil left, and more importantly, they have tremendous oil that has not even been found yet. What a tremendous asset for the United Kingdom. I hope the Prime Minister is listening because I told it to him three days in a row; that is all he heard: North Sea oil, North Sea. Because I want to see them do well. I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles, taking away farmland. But we are not letting this happen in America.

In 1982, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program predicted that by the year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe. He said that it would be irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust would be. This is what they said at the United Nations. Here we are. Another UN official stated in 1989 that within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming. Not happening. It used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago, in the 1920s and 1930s, they said global cooling would kill the world, and we have to do something. Then they said global warming would kill the world. But then it started getting cooler. So now they call it climate change because that way they cannot miss. It is climate change because if it goes higher or lower, whatever happens, there is climate change. It is the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you are involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. 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 do not get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail. I am really good at predicting things. They actually said during the campaign, they had a hat, the best-selling hat: "Trump was right about everything." I do not say that in a braggadocious way, but it is true: I have been right about everything. I am telling you that if you do not get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail. And if you do not stop people you have never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail.

I am the President of the United States, but I worry about Europe. I love Europe; I love the people of Europe, and I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake, and they cannot let that happen any longer. You are doing it because you want to be nice; you want to be politically correct, and you are destroying your heritage. They must take control strongly and immediately of the unmitigated immigration disaster and the fake energy catastrophe before it is too late. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they are heading down a path of total destruction. The carbon footprint was a big thing a few years ago. I remember hearing about the carbon footprint, and then President Obama would get into Air Force One, a massive Boeing 747, and not a new one, an old one with old engines that spew everything into the atmosphere. He would talk about the carbon footprint, saying, "We must do something." Then he would get in, fly from Washington to Hawaii to play a round of golf. Then he would get back onto that big, beautiful plane, fly back, and talk again about global warming and the carbon footprint. It is a con job.

At extreme cost and expense, Europe reduced its own carbon footprint by 37%. Congratulations, Europe, great job. You cost yourself a lot of jobs; a lot of factories closed, but you reduced the carbon footprint by 37%. However, for all of that sacrifice and much more, it has been totally wiped out and then some by a global increase of 54%, much of it coming from China and other countries that are thriving around China, which now produces more CO2 than all the other developed nations in the world. So all of these countries are working so hard on the carbon footprint, which is nonsense, by the way. It is nonsense. In the United States, we still have radicalized environmentalists, and they want the factories to stop. Everything should stop. No more cows; we do not want cows anymore. I guess they want to kill all the cows. They want to do things that are just unbelievable, and you have it too.

But we have a strong border. When it comes to the atmosphere, if we had the cleanest air, and I think we do, we have very clean air. We have the cleanest air we have had in many years. But the problem is that other countries like China, which has air that is a little bit rough, it blows. No matter what you are doing down here, the air up here tends to get very dirty because it comes in from other countries where their air is not so clean, and environmentalists refuse to acknowledge that. Same thing with garbage. In Asia, they dump much of their garbage right into the ocean. Over about a one- or two-week journey, it flows right past Los Angeles. You have seen it. Massive amounts of garbage, almost too much to do anything about, flowing past Los Angeles, past San Francisco. And then somebody will get in trouble because he dropped a cigarette on the beach. The whole thing is crazy.

The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune. European electricity bills are now four to five times more expensive than those in China and two to three times higher than the United States. And our bills are coming way down. You probably see that our gasoline prices are way down. We have an expression: "Drill, baby, drill." And that is what we are doing. We are going to be much lower in a year from now, but they have come way down over the last year. As a result, it is very uncommon to see an air conditioner in some of these countries because the electric cost is so high. So while the US has approximately 1,300 heat-related deaths annually—which is a lot—Europe loses more than 175,000 people to heat deaths each year because the costs are so expensive you cannot turn on an air conditioner. What is that all about? That is not Europe; that is not the Europe that I love and know. All in the name of pretending to stop the global warming hoax. The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and immediately.

That is why in America, I withdrew from the fake Paris Climate Accord, where, by the way, America was paying so much more than every other country. Others were not paying. China did not have to pay until 2030. Russia was given an old standard that was easy to meet: a 1990 standard. But for the United States, we were supposed to pay like a trillion dollars. I said this is another scam. The fact is, the United States has been taken advantage of by the world for many years, but not any longer, as you probably noticed. I unleashed massive energy production and signed historic executive orders to hunt for oil. But we do not have to do much hunting because we have the most oil of any nation anywhere. If you add coal, we have the most of any nation in the world. I call it clean, beautiful coal. You can do things today with coal that you could not have done 10 or 15 years ago. So I have a little standing order in the White House: never use the word "coal," only use the words "clean, beautiful coal." It sounds much better, doesn't it? But we stand ready to provide any country with abundant, affordable energy supplies if you need them, and most of you do. We are proudly exporting energy all over the world. We are now the largest exporter in the United States.

We want trade and robust commerce with all nations. We want to help nations, but it must also be fair and reciprocal. The challenge with trade is much the same as with climate. The countries that followed the rules, all their factories have been plundered. It is really sad to watch. They have been broken by countries that broke the rules. That is why the United States is now applying tariffs to other countries, much as these tariffs were for many years applied to us, uncontrollably applied to us. We have used tariffs as a defense mechanism under the Trump administration, including my first term, where hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs were taken in. By the way, we had the lowest inflation, and now we have very low inflation. The only thing different is that we have hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into our country. This is how we will ensure that the system works for everyone and is sustainable into the future. We are also using tariffs to defend our sovereignty and security throughout the world, including against nations that have taken advantage of former US administrations for decades, including the most corrupt, incompetent administration in history, the sleepy Joe Biden administration.

Brazil now faces major tariffs in response to its unprecedented efforts to interfere in the rights and freedoms of our American citizens and others, with censorship, repression, weaponization, judicial corruption, and targeting of political critics in the United States. I have a little problem saying this because I must tell you, I was walking in, and the leader of Brazil was walking out. We saw him, and I saw him. He saw me, and we embraced. I was thinking, "Can you believe I am going to be saying this in just two minutes?" But we actually agreed that we would meet next week. We did not have much time to talk, about 20 seconds. In retrospect, I am glad I waited because this thing did not work out too well. But we did talk; we had a good talk, and we agreed to meet next week if that is of interest. He seemed like a very nice man, actually. He liked me; I liked him. And I only do business with people I like; when I do not like them, I do not like them. But for at least about 39 seconds, we had excellent chemistry. It is a good sign. But also in the past, Brazil unfairly tariffed our nation. But now, because of our tariffs, we are hitting them back, and we are hitting them back very hard. As President, I will always defend our national sovereignty and the rights of American citizens. So, I am very sorry to say that Brazil is doing poorly and will continue to do poorly. They can only do well when they are working with us. Without us, they will fail, just as others have failed. It is true.

Next year, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our glorious independence, a testament to the enduring power of American freedom and spirit. We will also be proudly hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup and, shortly thereafter, the 2028 Olympics, which are going to be very exciting. I hope you all come. I hope that countless people from all over the globe will take part in these great celebrations of liberty and human achievement, and that together we all can rejoice in the miracles of history that began on July 4th, 1776, when we founded the light to all nations. Something truly amazing came out of that date; it is called the United States of America. In honor of this momentous anniversary, I hope that all countries who find inspiration in our example will join us in renewing our commitment to those values that we hold so dear. Together, let us defend free speech and free expression. Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today: it is called Christianity. And let us safeguard our sovereignty and cherish the qualities that have made each of our nations so special, incredible, and extraordinary.

In closing, I just want to repeat that immigration and the high cost of so-called green renewable energy are destroying a large part of the free world and a large part of our planet. 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. Whether you have come from north or south, east or west, near or far, every leader in this beautiful hall today represents a rich culture, a noble history, and a proud heritage that makes each nation majestic and unique, unlike anything else in human history or any other place on the face of the Earth. From London to Lima, from Rome to Athens, from Paris to Seoul, from Cairo to Tokyo, and Amsterdam to right here in New York City, we stand on the shoulders of the leaders and legends, generals and giants, heroes and titans who won and built our beloved nations. All of our nations, with their own courage, strength, spirit, and skill.

Our ancestors climbed mountains, conquered oceans, crossed deserts, and trekked over wide-open plains. They charged into thunderous battles, plunged into grave dangers. They were soldiers and farmers and workers and warriors and explorers and patriots. They built towns into cities, tribes into kingdoms, ideas into industries, and small islands into mighty empires. You are a part of all of that. They were champions for their people who never gave up and who never gave in. Their values defined our national identities; their visions forged our magnificent destiny. Everybody in this room is a part of it in your own way. Each of us inherits the deeds and the myths, the triumphs, the legacies of our own heroes and founders who so bravely showed us the way. Our ancestors gave everything for homelands that they defended with pride, with sweat, with blood, with life, and with death. Now the righteous task of protecting the nations that they built belongs to each and every one of us.

So together, let us uphold our sacred duty to our people and to our citizens. Let us protect their borders, ensure their safety, preserve their cultures, treasures, and traditions, and fight for their precious dreams and their cherished freedoms. In friendship and a beautiful vision, let us all work together to build a bright, beautiful planet: a planet that we all share. A planet of peace and a world that is richer, better, and more beautiful than ever before. That can happen. It will happen. I hope it can happen and start right now, at this moment. We will turn it around. We are going to make our countries better, safer, and more beautiful. We are going to take care of our people. Thank you very much. It has been an honor. God bless the nations of the world.

On behalf of the assembly, I wish to thank the President of the United States.