Let me sum up the speech delivered by El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago in New York Tuesday morning, for those of you who dozed off as quickly as Wilbur Ross did. The president* explained to, you know, the United Nations that it's pretty much every country for itself, as far as he's concerned. The audience was an oil painting throughout. The text was lugubrious, dispirited, distasteful, and altogether Stephen Miller. He pretty plainly was seeing the speech for the first time as he was delivering it. The address was the rhetorical equivalent of a tranquilizer dart.

(WAKE UP, WILBUR!)

Much of it also made no sense.

Love of our own nations makes the world better for all nations.

Whut?

The free world must embrace its national foundations. It must not attempt to erase them or replace them. Looking around, and all over this large, magnificent planet, the truth is plain to see: if you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty. And if you want peace, love your nation.

Yes, it's indicative of how he views the world, but how he views the world is batshit insane. Being true to your own perilous befuddlement is not a virtue.

Some more normal president stuff occurred at the UN this morning. Stephanie Keith Getty Images

The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations, who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences that make each country special and unique.

Please visit our native crafts exhibit in the foyer. But, because he is who he is, and because he has hired the people he's hired, he soon managed to drone his dogwhistles into a chorus of air-raid sirens.

It must not attempt to erase them or replace them.

"You...will...not...replace...us."

Globalism exerted a religious pull over past leaders causing them to ignore their own national interests. Those days are over.

A "religious pull." And what religion do these international economic puppet-masters follow, I wonder? He went on to accuse immigration activists of being in league with "vicious coyotes." He sleepily accused Iran of all manner of international perfidy and gave China a few whacks. In what may have been an attempt to wake his audience up through sheer incoherence, he somnambulated his way through some anti-abortion rhetoric. It was at that point that I began to envy Wilbur Ross.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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