President Donald Trump delivered a fiery rebuke of the United Nations during his address at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, accusing the global body of facilitating the mass migration crisis engulfing Western nations.
Calling the immigration crisis “the number one political issue of our time,” Trump warned that weak Western leadership and unchecked migration were “ruining” sovereign nations across Europe and North America—with the United Nations playing a direct role.
“The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders,” Trump declared. “What took place is totally unacceptable. The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions—not create them, and not finance them.”
Trump cited U.N. spending in 2024, claiming it budgeted $372 million in direct cash assistance for migrants journeying to the U.S., alongside support such as food, shelter, transportation, and even debit cards.
In his speech, the president singled out Europe, stating, “Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before.” He cited prison statistics to emphasize the strain on public resources, noting that in several European countries, over half of inmates are foreign-born.
Trump criticized London’s leadership under Mayor Sadiq Khan and warned, “Now they want to go to Sharia law. It will be the death of Europe if these countries don’t start controlling their borders.”
He also addressed the humanitarian aspect, emphasizing the importance of solving problems in the migrants’ home countries: “We want to help them—but we must fix these problems where they originate, not import them to our shores.”
Calling for immediate deportations of those with false asylum claims, Trump concluded, “When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repay kindness with crime, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. Your countries are going to hell.”
