Obama blasts Trump's Mexican wall plan in final UN speech
- 8 years ago
President Obama would like to see the world's power have greater resources to challenge to solve the most profound challenges facing the world, he said in a speech at the UN Tuesday.Obama, in his final speech to the U.N. General Assembly, recognized the havoc extremist groups are causing in the middle east andelsewhere "will not be quickly reversed."
"Until basic questions are answered about how communities co-exist, the embers of extremism will continue to burn.
Countless human beings will suffer," Obama remarked in a powerful address.
Obama also took a brief momentto hurl a zinger the way of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, stating "the world is too small for us to simply beable to build a wall and prevent (extremism) from affecting our own societies."
Lastly,Obama spoke on U.S. and Russia relations, as well as the diverging interests among the two powers that has allowed the Syria crisis to continue to fester.
"We see Russia attempting to recover lost glory through force," Obama said.
"Until basic questions are answered about how communities co-exist, the embers of extremism will continue to burn.
Countless human beings will suffer," Obama remarked in a powerful address.
Obama also took a brief momentto hurl a zinger the way of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, stating "the world is too small for us to simply beable to build a wall and prevent (extremism) from affecting our own societies."
Lastly,Obama spoke on U.S. and Russia relations, as well as the diverging interests among the two powers that has allowed the Syria crisis to continue to fester.
"We see Russia attempting to recover lost glory through force," Obama said.