President Trump To Speak In Person At UN General Assembly In September

President Trump is expected to speak in person at this year’s United Nations General Assembly debate in September, his ambassador to the international body said Thursday during a virtual event.

Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., claimed Trump would be “the only world leader to be speaking in person,” at this year’s gathering, scheduled from Sept. 22-25. Craft noted that “this is the 75th anniversary (of the U.N.), so it makes it even more special.”

"Obviously we're going to be focused on human rights issues, on transparency, on accountability," she continued.

This year’s General Assembly gathering is expected to be held virtually amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the world leaders will deliver their speeches through prerecorded video messages. One or two of each country’s New York-based representatives will be at the General Assembly Hall to witness the speeches.

Several notable moments of the Trump presidency have occurred during the U.N. General Assembly events. During a September 2018 speech at the event, Trump boasted that his administration had accomplished more in its first two years than any of its predecessors, drawing laughter in the General Assembly Hall. Trump had also previously slammed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the event, calling him “rocket man.”

Trump has also strongly defended his nationalist “America First” platform in front of the U.N., telling world leaders that “the future does not belong to the globalists” in a 2019 speech. Trump has frequently rejected multilateralism during his presidency, pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.