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  • US president lectures world leaders on migration, climate change
  • Calls climate change a con job

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump argued for lower levels of global migration and urged a turn away from climate change policies on Tuesday in a combative, wide-ranging speech to the U.N. General Assembly that leveled scathing criticism of world leaders.

The 56-minute speech was a rebuke to the world body and a return to form for Trump, who routinely bashed the U.N. during his first term as president. Leaders gave him polite applause when he exited the chamber.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’ll acknowledge that but nobody on this continent thinks that way.

    The USA appropriated “America” decades ago, and it’s the common usage.

    Arguing that the hemisphere is America in a comment about fascist USA is nitpicking at best.

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      12 hours ago

      Virtually every other country on both American continents, with the exception of Canada and a few French speaking countries, call people from the US “Estadounidense”, or similar, which literally means United Statesians. Only in the English and French speaking realms are people from the US called Americans. And there are way more Spanish and Portuguese speakers than there are English and French speakers in all of the Americas