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Donald Trump wheels jumble of contradictions onto world stage at UN
Washington: March into the United Nations, name-calling and threatening destruction, and the chances are there’ll be push-back.
Going one up on George W. Bush’s three-strong “axis of evil”, US President Donald Trump went after a four-strong “small group of rogue regimes” in his first speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
The inward rhetoric of his campaign notwithstanding, Trump issued a contradictory demand for patriotism and sovereignty for all nations that would be policed by his administration.
If he had to, Trump would totally destroy North Korea: “Rocket Man [Kim Jong-un] is on a suicide mission for himself and for his…