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New York — President Donald Trump got some laughter when he addressed world leaders on Tuesday. It wasn’t intentional.

The president was highlighting U.S. gains under his watch as he opened his address to the U.N. General Assembly. He said the American economy was “booming like never before” and that his administration has accomplished more in less than two years “than almost any administration in the history of our country”.

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His boast elicited laughter from the scores of heads of state and delegates in the audience for the speech.

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Trump, who has long claimed that his predecessors’ weak leadership prompted other nations “to laugh” at the US. appeared flustered and responded, “I didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK.”

Iran took the place of North Korea as the principal antagonist in Trump’s second address to the General Assembly. Trump said that while he had replaced “the specter of conflict” with North Korea “with a bold and new push for peace,” tensions with Iran have increased since the 2015 nuclear deal signed by former President Barack Obama.