On Tuesday President Obama met with world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly where he campaigned against presidential candidate Donald Trump and national sovereignty.

Obama TODAY: "In order to realize the promise of the UN, the US must give up freedoms" Unbelievable.#TrumpACandy pic.twitter.com/y8H9mLXTnR — Halley for Change™ (@HalleyBorderCol) September 20, 2016

Amid several calls for America to open its doors to Syrian refugees, Obama went on to admit he believed the US should “constrain” its freedoms within the UN’s international laws.

And we can only realize the promise of this institution’s founding — to replace the ravages of war with cooperation — if powerful nations like my own accept constraints. Sometimes I’m criticized in my own country for professing a belief in international norms and multilateral institutions. But I am convinced that in the long run, giving up some freedom of action — not giving up our ability to protect ourselves or pursue our core interests, but binding ourselves to international rules over the long term — enhances our security. And I think that’s not just true for us.

Obama also made several bizarre references to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s idea to build a southern border wall, arguing that strengthening the southern border is useless because of the apparent threat from – mosquitoes.

…I believe that the acceleration of travel and technology and telecommunications — together with a global economy that depends on a global supply chain — makes it self-defeating ultimately for those who seek to reverse this progress. Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself. […] Because until basic questions are answered about how communities co-exist, the embers of extremism will continue to burn, countless human beings will suffer — most of all in that region — but extremism will continue to be exported overseas. And the world is too small for us to simply be able to build a wall and prevent it from affecting our own societies. […] We can’t combat a disease like Zika that recognizes no borders — mosquitos don’t respect walls — unless we make permanent the same urgency that we brought to bear against Ebola — by strengthening our own systems of public health, by investing in cures and rolling back the root causes of disease, and helping poorer countries develop a public health infrastructure.

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