President Donald Trump condemned authoritarian regimes in harsh and Trumpian terms during his first United Nations speech, threatening to "totally destroy" North Korea, lamenting Iran’s “pursuit of death and destruction,” and warning that major portions of the world are “going to hell.” The president spoke before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, delivering what a senior administration official described beforehand as a “deeply philosophical address” promoting his vision of “principled realism.” The 40-minute speech marked a continuation and global expansion of the “American carnage” rhetoric the president deployed in his inaugural address, as he called on U.N. member states to join together in defeating pervasive “evil.” read more http://www.politico.com/story/2017/...nst-authoritarian-regimes-in-un-speech-242876
