President Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly featured a number of dubious, hyperbolic and headline-grabbing statements.
Here are some of the main soundbites from his 56-minute moment in front of world leaders in New York.
‘London wants Sharia law’
The president continued his long-running criticism of London’s mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, telling delegates: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed.
“Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
It’s not clear why he raised Sharia law – which is Islam’s legal system – but there is no evidence of it being administered by civil authorities in London.
A spokesperson for Sir Sadiq said: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
Immigration will be ‘death of Western Europe’
The president, who’s clamped down on migrants coming via America’s southern border and ordered immigration raids, warned the UN “immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately”.
He said Europe was being “invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before”.
“Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe and nobody’s doing anything to change it,” Mr Trump said.
Directly addressing European leaders, he added: “You’re doing it because you want to be nice. You want to be politically correct, and you’re destroying your heritage.”
The UK has seen a record number of illegal migrants arrive in small boats for this point in the year – and there has been a spike in legal migration too. How to tackle the problem continues to be a key political battleground.
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Climate change world’s ‘greatest con job’
Mr Trump urged Europe to abandon green energy plans and called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” with predictions “made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes”.
He said scientists had previously predicted some nations might be “wiped off the map” by now – but that’s “not happening”.
“If you don’t get away from the green scam, your country is going to fail,” he argued.
The vast majority of scientists accept climate change is largely man-made and already having an effect; for example by causing glaciers to shrink, sea levels to rise, and making wildfires more likely.
The president said renewable energy was blighting Britain’s countryside. Pic: iStock
He also reiterated his belief that Britain should make more of untapped North Sea oil, but claimed it was “so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company can go there”.
The president is well known for his loathing of renewable energy and used his speech to also take a swipe at the UK’s green energy efforts.
“I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles, taking away farmland,” the president said.
The UK’s largest solar plant is Cleve Hill in Kent, which stretches about 1.8 miles x 1 mile at its widest.
However, the country’s largest onshore wind farm at Whitelee, near Glasgow, comprises 215 turbines over about 30 square miles.
‘Everyone’ says Trump should get prize after ‘ending seven wars’
Mr Trump is widely believed to be very keen to get the Nobel Peace Prize, and today he again claimed to have stopped “seven wars” – despite US efforts to get a ceasefire in Ukraine and Gaza so far failing.
“I ended seven wars and in all cases they were raging with countless thousands of people being killed,” he said, adding that “no president or prime minister” has “ever done anything close to that”.
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Analysis of Trump’s speech
However, the president said he actually isn’t concerned about being honoured for his efforts.
“Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements,” he told world leaders.
“The real prize will be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people are no longer being killed in endless and unglorious wars,” the president said.
“What I care about is not winning prizes as much as saving lives.”
He also took a swipe at what he said was a lax approach from the UN, saying it was “too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them”.
Although his administration has helped mediate relations in disputes between countries such as India and Pakistan, and Cambodia and Thailand, experts say his impact isn’t as clear cut as he makes out.
