NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed the United Nations General Assembly, seventy-five years after the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations.
In his speech, he blamed Beijing for killing nearly 200,000 Americans and almost 1 million globally due to the coronavirus.
"We are once again engaged in a great global struggle," Trump said. "We have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy - the China virus - which has claimed countless lives in 188 countries."
"As we pursue this bright future, we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China," Trump added. Trump also boasted about the United States launching the "most aggressive mobilization since the Second World War," producing a record supply of ventilators and creating a surplus that allowed the US to share them around the globe.
"We pioneered life-saving treatments, reducing our fatality rate 85 percent since April," he said. He also added that three vaccines are in the final stage of clinical trials are being mass-produced so they can be delivered immediately upon arrival. "We will distribute a vaccine, we will defeat the virus, we will end the pandemic, and we will enter a new era of unprecedented prosperity, cooperation, and peace," Trump said.He also added that the Chinese government and the World Health Organization "is virtually controlled by China" and falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission but later, falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease. In his pre-recorded message, he continued to bash China by saying that every year they dump millions and millions of tons of plastic and trash into the oceans, overfishes other countries’ waters, destroys vast swaths of coral reef, and emits more toxic mercury into the atmosphere than any country anywhere in the world.
He added that China’s carbon emissions are nearly twice what the U.S. has, and it’s rising fast.
By withdrawing from the "one-sided Paris Climate Accord," last year America reduced its carbon emissions by more than any country in the agreement, he said. He also urged the United Nations to be an effective organization and focus on the real problems of the world including terrorism, the oppression of women, forced labor, drug trafficking, human and sex trafficking, religious persecution, and the ethnic cleansing of religious minorities. "America will always be a leader in human rights," Trump said. "My administration is advancing religious liberty, opportunity for women, the decriminalization of homosexuality, combatting human trafficking, and protecting unborn children."Trump finished his speech by saying "I am supremely confident that next year, when we gather in person, we will be in the midst of one of the greatest years in our history -- and frankly, hopefully, in the history of the world."