President Donald Trump used the United Nations gathering this week and the run-up to a White House summit to work through the largest foreign-policy files on his desk in one stretch: Iran, Russia, China, artificial intelligence, Greenland and a contracting global peace organization.The results were plainly evident Tuesday when the second-term president signed an Arctic security deal that many said was impossible, forced Cuba’s diplomats to storm out of a global meeting and earned polite applause from the UN General Assembly (UNGA) audience for defanging Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
And on Wednesday, Trump pivots to another high-stakes meeting when China’s president arrives for the summit.
“We’ve not seen anything like this, even during President Trump’s first term, which in many ways was his learning phase. He was figured out how to pull the levers of government. Now he’s very very capable at it,” former Deputy National Security Adviser Victoria Coates told Just The News.
“That’s what he really laid out today in this historic UNGA speech: everything he’s been doing while everyone else in that hall has been sitting around and bellyaching and clutching their pearls and generally getting upset over things,” Coates added.
While some of the disputes are not over, what this week produced was a rare stacking of them on the same calendar — a signed Arctic security pact, public pressure on Tehran and Moscow, an opening with Beijing and a clear statement that Washington intends to keep the lead in AI, which Trump now wants to be branded as “superintelligence.”
Trump reserved the hardest language in his Tuesday address to the General Assembly for Iran. He repeated that he will “never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” defended the U.S.-Israeli campaign and framed the choice as a deal that would let Iran rebuild — or, if talks collapse, a far more destructive strike, driving them “into hell.”
He told delegates he believes an agreement is more likely after the November 3 midterm elections, arguing that Tehran is waiting for any meaningful change in the composition of the next Congress. The war, now approaching the seven-month mark, has shaken energy markets and tested alliances.
Trump kept both tracks open: both military pressure and an offer of “full economic cooperation” if Iran ends its nuclear program and support for terror groups. Meetings with gulf leaders are also on his New York schedule as the White House weighs its next steps.
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