Trump calls on allies to enforce ‘complete economic isolation of Iran’ in UN speech
US president threatens to ‘annihilate’ Tehran and dismisses threat from AI as a ‘hoax’ in bellicose address
TL;DR
- Donald Trump called for international unity to enforce the complete economic isolation of Iran.
- He threatened to 'annihilate' Iran, suggesting it would lead to lower global energy prices.
- Trump dismissed warnings about out-of-control AI development as a 'hoax', rebranding it as 'superintelligence'.
- The US will build two new military bases in Greenland as part of an agreement with Denmark.
- Trump denied that the US was short of munitions and attacked the international criminal court.
- He reiterated threats to destroy Iran and claimed he was close to settling the war in Ukraine.
- Trump defended the US arrest of Nicolás Maduro and a subsequent oil deal with Venezuela.
- The US president plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Gulf leaders.