‘Your countries are going to hell!’: Donald Trump lectures countries in UN speech

The key moments of US President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2025.

Transcript

00:00Your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness and that's what they

00:05did. They repaid kindness with crime. It's time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You

00:11have to end it now. See, I can tell you. I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are

00:17going to hell. Number one political issue of our time, the crisis of uncontrolled migration.

00:22It's uncontrolled. Your countries are being ruined. The United Nations is funding an assault

00:29on Western countries and their borders. In a period of just seven months, I have ended

00:35seven unendable wars. They said they were unendable. I've been right about everything.

00:43And I'm telling you that if you don't get away from the green energy scam, your country is going

00:50to fail. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions.