President Trump’s first speech to the United Nations on Tuesday made America weaker, according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Albright said on MSNBC that she is glad Trump went to the U.N., and said parts of his speech were good, such as when he talked about the history of the UN.
But she said much of the speech was too harsh and too focused on Trump’s America first theme for the UN.
“Having listened to many speeches there, the tone of it was really bad, I think,” she said.
“I think we all want to make sure that America’s strong, but I think his speech weakened America, and I think it was something that is going to make it very hard for us to carry on a lot of diplomatic work that we have to.”
She said Trump threw out too much domestic “red meat” to his supporters, and said it wasn’t wise to talk about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un so prominently. Trump called Kim “Rocket Man,” and said the U.S. would have no choice but to destroy North Korea if it continued to threaten the world.
“I do think the language, generally, that he used was so harsh, that I think it in some ways it strengthened Kim Jong Un, made him the center of attention,” Albright said.
