'Your countries are being ruined' by migration, Trump tells Europe at the UN

In his UN speech on Tuesday, Trump warned Europe that immigration and climate policies are destroying its heritage and causing an "unmitigated disaster".

In his first address at the United Nations General Assembly since 2020, US President Donald Trump warned Europe on Tuesday that irregular migration is "destroying your heritage" and ruining its countries.Trump called immigration and policies confronting climate change a “double-tailed monster” that’s ruining the European continent, particularly harsh in his condemnation of what he called “the unmitigated immigration disaster.”“If you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail," Trump said."I’m 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, that double-tailed monster that destroys everything in its wake.”“You’re doing it because you want to be nice," he said in a direct address to the European leaders. "You want to be politically correct, and you’re destroying your heritage.”“It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. I can tell you, I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell,” Trump said.In recent years, European countries have tightened borders and access to asylum for third-country nationals. The European Union is also implementing a common pact for migration and asylum, which will impose stricter rules within the Schengen area.European leaders are also working on new legislation to simplify returns, which is currently under negotiation at the European institutions.During his hour-long speech, Trump accused the UN of facilitating and investing in irregular migration worldwide.Referring to the US, he said the intergovernmental organisation facilitated the entrance of “millions” of migrants into the country.“The UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and we have to get them out,” Trump said, and added that the top international organisation should “stop invasions, not create them and not finance them.”Although he did not explicitly name them, Trump was likely referring to two of the UN's aid agencies supporting migrants and refugees worldwide, the IOM and the UNHCR.Ending seven wars in seven monthsDuring his speech, Trump said he had ended "seven wars" in the first seven months of his current presidential mandate, some of which had lasted for decades.He listed conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serbia and Kosovo, Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan and Egypt and Ethiopia among those where he successfully brokered peace, criticising the UN for not helping him during negotiations.“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 finalising the deal,” Trump said.“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,” not sparing the UN of further criticism for a "bad teleprompter".Trump also said that "everyone" thinks he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize.“Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements,” he pointed out.Trump further lamented over the state of the UN, saying he "always said the UN has such tremendous, tremendous potential.""But it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential,” Trump added. “For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war.”