"America First", Or Everything That Was Wrong With Trump's Speech To The United Nations

According to Fred Kaplan, President Trump's address to the United Nations on Tuesday may have been "the most hostile, dangerous, and intellectually confused" speech ever delivered by an American president.

He then goes into a deeper analysis of these claims, which is very interesting to understand how dangerous words can be.

Overall, Trump's speech was contradictory and dark. He used his "America First" doctrine to justify hostility, and a language that made him sound more like a mobster than a statesman:

"We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission".

(Rocket Man being Trump's new nickname for Kim Jong-Un)

Are human rights only applied to other nations, not the U.S.?

Despite addressing the need of fighting together and "sacrificing together", his vision of the world held no place for the bonds of collective security, according to Kaplan.

His calls for action were not in the spirit of the U.N. charter. He invited other leaders to put their countries first, to respect sovereignty; but threatened North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela because their "sovereignty" didn't suit his purposes.

The world, according to Trump, is dark, but the future he presents doesn't look any brighter.