Trump's threat to annihilate Iran to UN general assembly is stunning, even for him
US president may have upstaged the ghost of Soviet leader Khrushchev by musing destruction of fellow member state
TL;DR
- Donald Trump contemplated the annihilation of Iran during his UN General Assembly address.
- Trump incorrectly stated the Islamic Republic of Iran had been in power for 51 years, when it was 47 years.
- He cited inflated figures for Iranians killed in anti-government protests.
- Trump predicted the imminent collapse of Cuba's communist regime.
- US actions in Venezuela were presented as a warning to other adversaries.
- Trump called the international criminal court an 'out-of-control institution' and an 'evil group of people'.
- He praised Nato's secretary general and Denmark, a departure from previous criticisms.
- Trump announced a new policy to rename artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence', calling concerns about its rapid development a 'globalist scheme'.