President Trump’s September 22, 2026 speech to the United Nations covered a booming economy, a widening war with Iran, a newly signed Greenland security pact, and a claim to have settled eight wars. Here’s everything he said, organized by topic, checked against government data and independent reporting. Assistance from Claude AI.
Summary
Speaking for roughly 37 minutes to the 81st session of the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2026, President Donald Trump delivered a sweeping account of his second term, built around the phrase “America is back.” He touted record-low poverty and a record-high stock market, then pivoted to the widening confrontation with Iran — threatening to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if it doesn’t accept a deal, while claiming Operation Epic Fury sank Iran’s entire 159-ship navy. He announced a newly signed U.S.–Denmark–Greenland security pact granting America permanent military access to the Arctic island, defended the January capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, claimed credit for “settling eight wars,” and renamed artificial intelligence “Superintelligence.” Independent fact-checkers, including the Associated Press and CNN, flagged several claims as false or exaggerated the same day — most notably his figures on jobs created, investment secured, and crime reductions in Washington, Memphis and New Orleans, which one fact-checking organization rated a “blatant lie.” This piece walks through every major topic in the speech and checks it against government data, Pentagon statements and independent reporting.
About This Speech
Unlike the campaign forums and cable-news interviews this outlet usually covers, this was a formal head-of-state address — a single speaker, no moderator, no audience questions. There is accordingly no press Q&A section in this breakdown; the “notable exchanges” below are the moments in the text itself where Trump’s own framing runs up against the documented record, plus a handful of live reactions (applause, a joke about a hot mic he didn’t make here but which populates the broader body of coverage of this speech’s tone) captured by outlets in the hall.
President Trump addressed the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York on the morning of September 22, 2026, ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence. Analysis of the speech’s delivery (via Factbase/Roll Call’s “StressLens” tool) flagged much of the address as low in vocal-stress signal, consistent with a prepared, teleprompter-paced remarks rather than off-the-cuff riffing — though Trump departed from his prepared framing several times, including an extended aside renaming artificial intelligence.
Participants
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Donald Trump | President of the United States; sole speaker |
Referenced but not present in the chamber as speakers:
| Name | Context |
|---|---|
| Melania Trump | First Lady of the United States; credited with facilitating the return of displaced Ukrainian and Russian children and with presiding over a UN Security Council session |
| Mette Frederiksen | Prime Minister of Denmark; co-signed the Greenland security pact with Trump the same day |
| Jens-Frederik Nielsen | Premier of Greenland; co-signed the Greenland security pact |
| Mark Rutte | NATO Secretary General; praised by name for NATO’s shift to a 5%-of-GDP defense-spending target |
| Michael Waltz | U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; credited with leading UN budget and staffing reforms |
| Marco Rubio | U.S. Secretary of State; described as “deep into negotiations” with Cuba |
| Nicolás Maduro | Former President of Venezuela; captured in a U.S. military operation on January 3, 2026, and referenced as “the outlaw, dictator, real criminal” |
| Ali Khamenei | Supreme Leader of Iran; accused of celebrating the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and overseeing the killing of Iranian protesters |
| Senator Lindsey Graham | U.S. Senator; new Russia/Ukraine tariff-authority law named in his honor |
Methodological Note
This is a formal General Assembly address, so there was no live Q&A to record. Several specific figures Trump cited — the exact wording of quotes he attributed to the leaders of Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Rwanda; the precise volume of oil escorted through the Strait of Hormuz; the exact number of “co-sponsors” on the UN Security Council’s Iran-shipping resolution; the state of Cuba negotiations; and the death of Tren de Aragua’s leader — could not be independently corroborated from public reporting in time for this fact-check and are presented below without a verdict rather than a guess. Where a claim was checked same-day by the Associated Press, CNN, or Media Bias Fact Check, that verdict is cited directly. Verdicts use: ✅ Accurate · ⚠️ Misleading / needs context · ❌ False · ℹ️ Unverifiable.
The Economy: Poverty, Jobs, Income and the Stock Market
Trump opened with a run of economic superlatives: more than 1 million new private-sector jobs, the lowest poverty rate in American history, 1.5 million people lifted out of poverty last year, record-low Black and Hispanic poverty rates, a record $87,000 average household income, 80 stock-market records in 12 months, and $21 trillion in new investment commitments — compared, he said, to “less than $1 trillion in four years” under the Biden administration.
✅ Accurate — poverty and household income. Census Bureau data released in mid-September 2026 does show the official U.S. poverty rate falling to 10.2% in 2025 — a historic low — while median household income rose 2.6% to $87,460, also a record. The roughly half-point drop in the poverty rate translates to a decline of around 1.5–1.7 million people, matching Trump’s figure reasonably closely. The Hispanic poverty rate did reach a record low (13.9%), as did child poverty (13.4%); Black household income rose 4.8% year-over-year, though this fact-check could not independently confirm a specific record-low Black poverty rate figure to match Trump’s claim precisely. Economists quoted alongside the release cautioned that the numbers reflect 2025 and don’t yet capture the effects of Medicaid and SNAP cuts enacted in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which one left-leaning research group estimated had already reduced child SNAP enrollment by 1.2 million between July 2025 and July 2026.
⚠️ Misleading — jobs. The Associated Press’s same-day fact-check found the U.S. had added 807,000 jobs since the start of Trump’s second term — “close to his claim of 1 million,” but not there, and “by historical standards, not a particularly large increase.” Job growth of this scale is typical for most modern presidencies; U.S. payrolls have hit new highs in 65 of the last 80 years simply because the economy adds jobs in most months.
❌ False — the $21 trillion investment figure. The AP found this number “exaggerated, highly speculative, and far higher than the actual sum of domestic and foreign investments in the U.S.” The White House’s own investment tracker lists $11.2 trillion — and even that figure appears to fold in commitments originally announced during the Biden administration.
ℹ️ Unverifiable (as stated) — 80 stock-market records. Trump claimed 53 record highs as of his February 2026 State of the Union address; markets did continue setting records through the spring (the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow all posted multiple all-time highs in May 2026 alone), so an increase to roughly 80 by September is directionally plausible, though this fact-check could not locate an independent tally confirming the specific number.
Border Security and Immigration
Trump said the U.S. now has “the most secure border in American history” and that, “in the past 16 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States.”
⚠️ Misleading — conflates “admitted” with “released.” Trump has repeated versions of this claim (with shifting timeframes — 8, 9, 10, then 16 months) since early 2026. What’s real, and independently confirmed by DHS and CBP data, is a sustained, unusual streak of Border Patrol releasing zero migrants into the U.S. interior while their cases proceed — a genuine, well-documented policy shift from years of “catch and release.” What isn’t accurate is the word “admitted”: people are still being encountered and processed at the border (well over 100,000 southwest-border enforcement encounters were recorded in comparable periods), they simply aren’t being released pending court dates. Media Bias Fact Check rated an earlier, similarly worded version of this claim “Mostly True” on that basis — real policy, imprecise verb.
Crime and Public Safety
Trump claimed “the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded,” a murder rate at “its lowest level in 125 years, since the year 1900,” and — citing deployments of federal agents and the National Guard — crime down “over 80 percent” in Memphis and New Orleans and 87% in Washington, D.C.
⚠️ Misleading, with a real underlying trend — the national murder rate. FBI data does show a genuinely historic 18.5% drop in the murder and non-negligent-manslaughter rate in 2025, the largest single-year decline since the FBI’s national series began in 1936, landing at a rate tied with 1955–56 for the lowest the FBI has ever recorded. The “125 years, since 1900” framing, however, relies on splicing that modern FBI series onto older public-health mortality data from before 1960 that criminologists say isn’t fully comparable to today’s figures — which is why PolitiFact rated an earlier version of this specific claim “Half True.” The core trend is real and remarkable; the “since 1900” framing overstates how directly comparable the historical data actually is.
❌ False — the city-specific percentages. This is the clearest outright falsehood checked in this speech. Media Bias Fact Check examined nearly identical figures Trump cited in August 2026 — 71% in Memphis, 75% in New Orleans, 81% in Washington — and rated the claim a “Blatant Lie,” finding that “police data do not support the crime-reduction percentages Trump cited” and that “crime was already declining before the National Guard deployments.” The real, independently reported numbers are considerably smaller and mostly predate the federal surge: Memphis reported overall crime down roughly 30–34% year-over-year in 2026 (with homicides down about 32%); New Orleans recorded murders down about 7% year-over-year (major crime overall down 17.6%) even as it was already “on pace to have its lowest number of killings in more than five decades” before any deployment; and in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department’s own August 2026 data showed a 32% year-over-year homicide decline and a 20% reduction in overall crime — with a rigorous outside analysis from the Niskanen Center crediting the National Guard specifically with an additional ~24% reduction concentrated almost entirely in property crime, while a separate NPR-reported study found the Guard had “little to no effect on violent crime.” None of the independent figures approach the 80–87% Trump cited in this speech.
Military Readiness and Spending
Trump said the U.S. has invested more in the military in the past 12 months than ever before (“$1.5 trillion” for the term), and dismissed as false the idea that the U.S. is “low on munitions,” saying stockpiles are being built “at levels that we have never done before,” with 18 new munitions plants under construction.
❌ False — the munitions claim. This is directly contradicted by the AP’s same-day fact-check, which cited on-the-record U.S. military, NATO and Middle Eastern officials describing a “beyond critical” shortage of Patriot and THAAD missile interceptors in Europe, “largely driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.” A NATO official confirmed low Patriot inventories among American and allied forces in Europe, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies warned in a May 2026 report that depleted stockpiles from the Iran conflict have “created a window of vulnerability for a potential Western Pacific conflict” that will take years to close.
ℹ️ Unverifiable — the $1.5 trillion military-spending figure and the 18 new plants. This fact-check could not independently confirm either specific figure within the scope of available reporting.
Iran: From “Midnight Hammer” to “Epic Fury”
This was the longest and most detailed section of the speech. Trump recounted offering Iran a deal in early 2025 in exchange for ending its nuclear program and support for terrorism; Iran’s refusal; the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear sites (Operation Midnight Hammer); a second, much larger war beginning in February 2026 (Operation Epic Fury) that he said sank “all 159 ships” of Iran’s navy and destroyed its air force, radar and anti-aircraft systems; a UN Security Council resolution condemning Iranian attacks on shipping; and a U.S. Navy operation escorting “more than 1 billion barrels of oil” out of the Strait of Hormuz. He framed the choice ahead as either a negotiated deal or “annihilating” the Iranian regime, and said he expects a deal “right after the election” — explicitly noting he himself is not on the ballot.
Context for general readers: the “2026 Iran war” was a real, large-scale conflict — U.S. and Israeli strikes opened on February 28, 2026, reportedly killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and much of Iran’s senior military leadership in the first hours. A Pakistan-brokered ceasefire took effect April 8, 2026, and the Pentagon later set the operation’s formal end date at May 5, though intermittent U.S.-Iran clashes, particularly around the Strait of Hormuz, continued into the summer.
✅ Accurate — Operation Midnight Hammer’s core claim. Then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated in March 2026 that Midnight Hammer had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment program and that Tehran had made no effort to rebuild it since — matching Trump’s framing.
⚠️ Misleading — “all 159 ships” sunk. This figure appears to exceed every officially disclosed Pentagon tally from the war. CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said U.S. forces had “destroyed over 30 ships” as of March 5–11, 2026; other Pentagon briefings in the same window cited “more than 20” confirmed ships hit, and one specialist naval-analysis outlet (relying on a “latest Pentagon report”) put the cumulative figure at “a minimum of 130 Iranian surface vessels hit — destroyed, sunk, or severely damaged,” a category that explicitly includes damaged as well as sunk vessels. Independent estimates of Iran’s total combined navy and IRGC-navy fleet — including small craft — run as high as roughly 400 vessels, with the commissioned, “frontline” portion closer to 145–190. It’s plausible additional strikes after mid-March pushed the confirmed total higher than what was last publicly disclosed, but no public Pentagon statement found for this fact-check confirms a figure of 159 ships sunk, let alone “all” of Iran’s navy.
ℹ️ Unverifiable — the UN Security Council “most co-sponsors ever” claim and the “1 billion barrels” of oil escorted through Hormuz. A UN Security Council resolution condemning Iranian attacks on commercial shipping did pass; this fact-check could not independently confirm the specific superlative about co-sponsor counts or the oil-volume figure.
Notable exchange: Trump’s remark that Iran is “waiting to see how I do in the midterm election” but that “I’m not running” — delivered as a pointed aside to underline that his second term runs through January 2029 — drew audible reaction in the chamber per multiple outlets’ coverage, one of several moments where Trump broke from a straightforward recitation of accomplishments into more freewheeling commentary.
Gaza: The Ceasefire and the “Board of Peace”
Trump described ending the Gaza war “a few weeks” after his UN address one year earlier, securing the return of all hostages, and thanked the Security Council for endorsing his 20-point peace plan and “officially approving the Board of Peace,” which he said has grown to nearly 30 member countries that he chairs, alongside nations that have contributed funding (he named Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Uzbekistan) and troop/police contributors (Indonesia, Morocco, Albania, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Egypt and Jordan).
✅ Accurate, broadly. The Gaza ceasefire, hostage returns, and the creation of a Trump-chaired “Board of Peace” (with Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and envoy Steve Witkoff among its senior figures) are well documented. The board’s membership did grow over the course of 2026: roughly six to sixteen countries had confirmed invitations by mid-January, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt cited “more than 20 additional countries” by late January, and “nearly 30” by September is consistent with that growth trajectory.
The “Eight Wars” Claim
Trump said it has been his “great honor to settle eight wars” since taking office, listing (across this and prior speeches) Cambodia–Thailand, Kosovo–Serbia, the Democratic Republic of Congo–Rwanda, India–Pakistan, Armenia–Azerbaijan, Gaza, the Israel–Iran conflict, and a dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia. He read out flattering quotes he said came from the leaders of Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Rwanda.
❌ False, as an aggregate figure. Both CNN’s and the AP’s same-day fact-checks called this “a clear exaggeration.” Two of the eight situations were never actual wars during Trump’s tenure: the Egypt–Ethiopia matter was a diplomatic dispute over a dam project, and there is no documented war or war-level threat between Serbia and Kosovo in this period (tensions persist, but NATO peacekeepers have kept the situation well short of armed conflict for years). A third — the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda — has a Trump-brokered peace agreement on paper, but CNN reports the underlying conflict “has not ended despite” it. Analysts interviewed by PolitiFact and Al Jazeera noted that of the conflicts Trump does count, none involved the U.S. as a primary combatant except the one he doesn’t mention this way — the Iran war, which he himself began.
ℹ️ Unverifiable — the specific quotes. This fact-check could not independently verify the exact wording of the quotes Trump attributed to the leaders of Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Rwanda in time for publication. Under this outlet’s copyright and sourcing rules, we also don’t reproduce those quoted lines verbatim from the speech itself; if you want the exact wording, the primary transcript is linked in the sources below.
Russia and Ukraine
Trump said the U.S. “will get” a Russia-Ukraine deal, citing 25,000 monthly casualties on both sides, and credited Melania Trump with securing the return of displaced Ukrainian and Russian children and with becoming, he said, the first First Lady to preside over a UN Security Council meeting. He also referenced signing a new tariff-authority law “in honor of Senator Lindsey Graham.”
ℹ️ Unverifiable. This fact-check could not independently confirm the First Lady’s UN Security Council role, the specific casualty figures cited, or the details of the Graham-linked tariff law within the scope of available reporting. The broader claim that the war remains unresolved and ongoing is consistent with general knowledge of the conflict’s status.
Venezuela: The Maduro Operation and the Oil Deal
Trump described a January military operation that “penetrated deep into” Caracas and captured Nicolás Maduro, the release of “hundreds” of Venezuelan political prisoners since, and “the largest oil deal in history” — 65 billion barrels — which he said, combined with U.S. reserves, gives the two countries “more than 60 percent of the oil in the world.”
✅ Accurate — the Maduro operation. In the early hours of January 3, 2026, U.S. forces carried out “Operation Absolute Resolve,” a large-scale strike on Caracas (Gen. Dan Caine described more than 150 aircraft involved) that captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who now face narco-terrorism and drug-trafficking charges in the Southern District of New York. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as interim president two days later. The operation is independently documented by multiple outlets and reference sources, with casualty estimates in the dozens on the Venezuelan and Cuban military side.
✅ Accurate — the scale of the oil deal. The U.S. did enter a 100-year joint venture in late August 2026 covering 17 Venezuelan oil fields with 65 billion barrels in proven reserves.
❌ False — the “60 percent of the world’s oil” claim. The AP’s fact-check did the math: Venezuela’s total proven reserves are estimated above 303 billion barrels, and world proven reserves sit at roughly 1.6 trillion barrels — meaning even using the largest available figures, the U.S. and Venezuela combined would account for about 22% of global reserves, not 60%. By production rather than reserves, the two countries together produced just under 20% of world crude in 2025, per OPEC’s own statistical bulletin.
Mexico and the Cartels
Trump said drug cartels have been designated foreign terrorist organizations, described dozens of U.S. strikes on cartel drug boats that he said destroyed “97 percent of the drugs coming into the ocean and sea,” and said the U.S. “terminated” the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua three months earlier.
⚠️ Misleading — the 97% figure. The AP found the White House’s underlying source for a nearly identical claim (98.2%, cited by Trump in an earlier Truth Social post) was Customs and Border Protection seizure data comparing just two specific months — not a measure of total trafficking volume. A Syracuse University public-health professor who studies drug trafficking told the AP that “drug seizure data measure interdiction activity, not actual trafficking volume,” and that “no one knows how much goes uncaught.”
ℹ️ Unverifiable — the Tren de Aragua leader’s death. This fact-check could not independently confirm this specific claim within available reporting.
Cuba
Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is “deep into negotiations” with Cuba and predicted the country’s communist government will fall, also alleging the Cuban regime has long coordinated with groups in the U.S. he named as the Communist Party USA, Antifa and the Democratic Socialists of America.
ℹ️ Unverifiable. This fact-check could not independently confirm the state of any Rubio-led Cuba negotiations. The allegation of coordination between the Cuban government and named U.S. domestic organizations is a characterization this outlet could not verify against independent reporting and is presented here as Trump’s stated claim rather than a confirmed fact.
Greenland and NATO
Trump announced that the U.S., Denmark and Greenland had reached “an unprecedented agreement” giving the U.S. “permanent control over security, and all other needs” on Greenland, to be signed later that day, with plans for two new major U.S. military bases and a bar on non-NATO countries establishing any presence or making sensitive investments there without U.S. approval. He also credited NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and the alliance’s move to a 5%-of-GDP defense-spending target, up from 2%.
✅ Accurate. The agreement was in fact signed that same day, September 22, 2026, at UN Headquarters, by Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen. It reaffirms Danish sovereignty over Greenland (it is not, contrary to Trump’s past rhetoric about acquiring the island outright, a transfer of ownership) while granting the U.S. expanded basing rights, including new bases planned at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig, broad access to Greenlandic airspace, and — matching Trump’s UN framing almost exactly — screening provisions aimed at blocking non-NATO investment and any non-NATO military presence.
✅ Accurate, with a timeline caveat — NATO’s 5% target. NATO’s 32 members did agree at the June 2025 summit in The Hague to raise defense-related spending to 5% of GDP (3.5% core defense, 1.5% broader security infrastructure) — but the agreed deadline is 2035, not the present day, so member states are not yet actually spending at that level; they’ve merely committed to a decade-long path toward it.
The United Nations: Budget Cuts and Institutional Criticism
Trump said his administration “cut the UN budget for the first time ever,” slashing it 15% in 2026 and eliminating more than 4,000 bureaucratic positions, credited to Ambassador Michael Waltz’s efforts. He also criticized an unnamed UN body — the International Maritime Organization — for what he described as an attempt to impose a global shipping carbon tax, called for member nations to leave the International Criminal Court, and criticized the UN Human Rights Council and UNESCO.
✅ Accurate — the budget and staffing cuts. UN member states did adopt a roughly 15% cut to the 2026 regular budget (about $570 million) in December, and Ambassador Waltz’s own congressional testimony through mid-2026 documented the position-elimination figure climbing from “nearly 3,000” toward “nearly 4,000” headquarters jobs cut as reform efforts continued — consistent with Trump’s UN speech figure. It is, as claimed, a genuinely unprecedented cut in UN budget history, driven substantially by the U.S. withholding a large share of its dues.
ℹ️ Unverifiable — the IMO carbon-tax dispute. This fact-check could not independently confirm the specifics of the International Maritime Organization episode Trump described within the scope of available reporting for this piece.
The ICC, Human Rights Council and UNESCO criticism are policy positions and value judgments — calls for other nations to withdraw from an institution, characterizations of what international bodies “spend their time” on — rather than discrete, checkable factual claims, and are presented here as Trump’s stated views rather than fact-checked assertions.
“Superintelligence”: Renaming AI
In one of the speech’s more unusual passages, Trump announced that U.S. government documents will officially replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “Superintelligence,” arguing the word “artificial” makes the technology “sound fake,” and said the Department of Justice would “watch it closely” rather than “rein it in.”
Context, not a fact-check: this is a stated policy preference and rhetorical rebrand rather than an empirical claim, so it isn’t scored with a verdict above. It’s worth noting for readers that “superintelligence” is also an established technical term in AI research referring to a hypothetical system that surpasses human cognitive ability across virtually all domains — a considerably narrower and more specific concept than “AI” as commonly used, which covers everything from spam filters to chatbots. Trump’s usage in the speech does not appear to track that technical distinction.
Closing: 250 Years and a Call for “Bold Action”
Trump closed by invoking George Washington reading the Declaration of Independence to troops in New York in 1776 as British ships massed in the harbor, framing the current moment — 250 years later, in the same city — as a similar test of resolve for the assembled leaders.
This closing framing is a rhetorical device rather than a factual claim and is not fact-checked here, beyond noting that the broad historical episode it references (Washington’s reading of the Declaration to troops in New York shortly before the British fleet’s arrival in the summer of 1776) is a real and commonly cited moment in Revolutionary War history.
Fact-Check Scorecard
✅ Accurate: the 2025 poverty rate and household income records; the scale of the Maduro capture operation; the scale and terms of the Venezuela oil deal; the Greenland–Denmark security pact; NATO’s 5%-of-GDP commitment (with a 2035 deadline); the UN budget and staffing cuts; the Gaza ceasefire, hostage returns and Board of Peace’s growing membership; Operation Midnight Hammer’s core claim about Iran’s nuclear program.
⚠️ Misleading or needing context: the “1 million jobs” figure (actual: 807,000); the “zero illegal aliens admitted” border claim (conflates admissions with interior releases); the national murder-rate “since 1900” framing (real decline, contested historical comparison); the “all 159 ships” Iranian navy claim (exceeds officially disclosed Pentagon figures); the 97% cartel-drug-interdiction figure (measures seizures, not trafficking volume).
❌ False: the $21 trillion investment figure (actual White House figure: $11.2 trillion); the Memphis/New Orleans/D.C. crime-percentage figures (rated a “Blatant Lie” by an independent fact-checker); the munitions-abundance claim (contradicted by U.S., NATO and Middle Eastern officials describing critical shortages); the “eight wars settled” claim (at least two were not wars, one remains unresolved); the “60 percent of the world’s oil” claim (actual combined U.S.–Venezuela share: roughly 20–22%).
ℹ️ Unverifiable within this fact-check: the exact stock-market record count; the $1.5 trillion military-spending figure and the 18 new munitions plants; the UN Security Council resolution’s “most co-sponsors” claim and the Hormuz oil-volume figure; the quotes attributed to the leaders of Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Rwanda; the First Lady’s UN Security Council role and the Ukrainian/Russian children figures; the Tren de Aragua leader’s reported death; the state of U.S.–Cuba negotiations; and the IMO carbon-tax episode.
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Works Cited — Transcript
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