Trump to address UN General Assembly, hold talks with over a dozen world leaders
Donald Trump is set to deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and meet with more than ten world leaders' delegations, with the Middle East and the war in Ukraine high on the agenda.
US President Donald Trump was set to open Tuesday with a speech to delegates at the UN General Assembly, followed by a packed schedule of meetings with no fewer than 11 world leaders, both bilaterally and in group settings. Last year, Trump's address drew attention when he told assembled nations they were "going to hell," citing climate policy and mass migration among his reasons. The contents of this year's speech were not known beforehand.
Trump was scheduled to meet with leaders from four continents, including British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Venezuela's interim leader Delcy Rodriguez, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, and representatives from the Gulf states of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. The meetings come against a backdrop of an unstable Middle East and a war in Ukraine now in its fifth year with no end in sight. In the evening, Trump was expected to attend a leaders' reception where he could briefly meet dozens more officials; on Monday he had already met with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Other developments in US politics
Major US television networks agreed to suspend video coverage of Trump after his administration barred journalists from several outlets — including CNN, MS Now and Politico — from entering the White House grounds. The affected outlets sued the administration, arguing the ban violates their First Amendment rights, and are seeking a temporary restraining order to restore access. Trump himself said he expects to lose the case, noting the judge assigned to it had previously ruled in favor of restoring press credentials in a similar dispute.
Trump also said he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a "great mayor" for New York — an unusually warm remark about the democratic socialist whom Trump and fellow Republicans have repeatedly cited as a symbol of what they call the Democratic Party's drift toward "communism."
