The journalists at NBC on Tuesday pounced on Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations, immediately branding it a “19th century,” and “wrong in tone” address that caters only to the interests of America. Additionally, six of the ten minutes devoted to the live, post-speech reaction were actually focused on Ukraine and impeachment.
As soon as the address was over, Andrea Mitchell attacked: “This was his America first speech, bragging about the military power of the United States, about our economy….It’s understandable in his context. He’s running for re-election and running for re-election with a United Nations speech that was completely wrong in tone for this world body.”
Apparently, it wasn’t the speech she would give as the NBC journalist whined, “Not a mention of climate. Climate and poverty are the two big themes this United Nations week. No mention of either.”
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Chuck Todd objected to the idea that, as he paraphrased, “you can have nationalistic-based foreign policy.” He called that “very controversial”:
To me, the one message he sent was sort of reinforcing the idea that, “Yeah, you can have nationalistic-based foreign policy.” And that’s actually very controversial if you think about it. That would truly impact the refugee system around the world, would truly impact immigration around the world. I mean, if you actually dig deep into what he is saying in that, “Oh, embrace your patriots. Worry about your sovereignty.”…. That’s a this is why we don’t take in all comers.
NBC analyst Richard Haas offered perhaps the nastiest attack, deriding the “insulting,” “19th century” speech:
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See Also:
(1) Read Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly
(2) Experts on Trump’s U.N. speech: ‘He articulated for the first time…what ‘America First’ means’
(3) Did Joe Biden Implicate Barack Obama in Ukraine Quid Pro Quo Scandal?
(4) Homeland Security touts end of ‘catch and release’ next week
(6) Trump’s Ukraine call transcript: Read the document
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