President Trump questioned the mission of the United Nations and aired a familiar list of grievances in a meandering speech before the General Assembly as it convened on Tuesday on its 80th anniversary.

With wars raging in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, Mr. Trump, used his speech to make dubious claims about immigration and green energy, and to lecture the representatives of nations gathered in the room. He targeted the United Nations, claiming that he had solved conflicts around the world while the U.N. had done nothing and questioning its purpose. “Sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any on them,” Mr. Trump said.

Outside the United Nations building in Manhattan on Tuesday morning, police officers swarmed a cluster of anti-Trump protesters ahead of the president’s speech to diplomats and world leaders at the General Assembly.

Dozens of demonstrators were milling in the streets near the U.N. roughly an hour before President Trump’s speech began. A dozen sat on the ground at the intersection of 42nd Street and Second Avenue, further snarling traffic during what is known as Gridlock Week in Midtown East.

In his speech, Trump once again criticized Britain for not drilling more oil, saying its high taxes were driving away producers. “Oh, the North Sea, I know it so well,” he said. “They have tremendous oil left, and more importantly they have tremendous oil that hasn’t been found there.” Trump, who has made two trips to Britain in recent months, is right that Britain’s tax on oil companies is steep — it’s one of the highest rates globally. But oil output from the North Sea has been in rapid decline over recent decades, and production is expected to continue to fall. Here’s a breakdown of Trump’s criticism of the British government on energy policy.

One of Trump’s notable lines referred to a core foundational value of the United States: “Let us defend free speech and free expression.” But critics say Trump has promoted a government-led assault on free speech, free expression and the free press, especially in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist.

Ending after roughly 57 minutes, President Trump’s address was the longest speech he has delivered before the U.N. General Assembly, easily eclipsing the length of previous speeches delivered in his first term.

In his final words before the General Assembly, Trump praised the histories of conquest and exploration by ancestors and said people must defend their homelands.

Trump linked migration and renewable energy as the forces “destroying a large part of the free world.”

Trump criticized the Brazilian government for what he called unfair political persecution. He imposed 50 percent tariffs on Brazil in large part for the legal case against Jair Bolsonaro, the former president, a conservative politician who was recently convicted by the country’s Supreme Court for attempting a coup. Trump considers Bolsonaro a friend and ally.

World leaders have a time limit for their speeches at the General Assembly. When they go over, a red light on the podium goes off. Trump is well over his time limit but the light is not on yet.

Trump said Christianity is the “most persecuted religion on the planet.”

More than 45 minutes in, the president has turned to tariffs for the first time, saying he was using them to “defend our sovereignty.” He noted that Brazil was paying tariffs for a series of supposed political offenses, but he said he will meet Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president.

The idea of the carbon footprint that Trump ridiculed was developed by oil companies as part of a public relations campaign.

Going off script again, the president spent 10 minutes on “the global warming hoax.” He celebrated the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and “clean, beautiful coal.” He talked about American energy exports and added, “The United States has been taken advantage by much of the world, but not anymore.”

The clean air Trump is celebrating in the United States is a product of environmental regulations that the Trump administration is gutting.

Trump is now at triple his time limit for speaking. His speech has largely been a lecture about how the U.N. and other countries were failing.

Trump accused environmentalists of wanting to “kill all the cows.” There was no evidence for that claim.

Trump undermined scientific consensus on climate change, saying it was “made by stupid people.” In fact, the global average temperature has already increased by over 1 degree Celsius since the start of the industrial era. “if you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,” he said.

Trump was correct that his administration has had success driving down illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. There were still some migrants crossing the border, however, despite Trump’s assertion that nobody was now crossing into the United States. Border officials recorded more than 9,700 apprehensions at the border in August, according to Customs and Border Protection. That pales in comparison with the more than 107,000 apprehensions in August last year.

Trump called climate change the “greatest con job” ever perpetrated on the world.

Trump has often made the false claim that nations are intentionally directing migrants to the United States. Trump and his senior aides have turned to that attack more frequently as the number of migrants arriving from far-away nations, rather than just Latin America, has grown in recent years. That global migration is, however, fueled by poverty, war and the pandemic.

Trump accused China of not building wind farms in its territory. That was incorrect. China’s expansion of wind and solar capacity overtook coal capacity in 2025, according to a recent analysis.

After dismissing renewable energy, Trump praised Germany for returning to nuclear energy and more fossil fuels. “All green is all bankrupt,″ he said.

Trump claimed that the U.N. was financing waves of migrants illegally crossing into the United States. In fact, the U.N.’s refugee agency and UNICEF offer assistance like shelter, food and clean water to refugees around the world. They run refugee camps in Turkey, Greece and Lebanon for the waves of refugees who leave countries like Iraq and Syria to journey to Europe.

“We will blow you out of existence,″ he warned anyone moving drugs out of Venezuela. Yet, for all the time Trump has spent on immigration and the “supreme power of the United States military,” he has not turned to the technological, military or economic challenge of China; arms control with Russia; or any of the usual items on the U.S. international agenda.