UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE highlights: Trump dismisses climate change as ‘biggest con job’

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lauded his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the UN as a feckless institution. He also warned that Europe would be ruined if it doesn't turn away from a "double-tailed monster" of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies. In an hour-long speech, Trump praised himself and lamented that some of his fellow world leaders' countries were “going to hell.”

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for other countries to recognise a Palestinian state after such moves by Western powers, calling for a ceasefire as soon as possible in Gaza. "A genocide is continuing in Gaza, even as we meet here innocent people are dying," Erdogan said at United Nations General Assembly.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Israeli attack on Doha targetting the Hamas leadership showed that the Israeli leadership is “now completely out of control.” The Turkish President also attacked Israel for launching attacks on Syria, Iran, Yemen and Lebanon.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says: “There is no war in Gaza. There is no two sides in Gaza. This is an invasion. A genocide. A policy of mass massacre.”

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: After finishing his speech, Donald Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said that his speech was very well received.

“It was a great honor to speak before the United Nations. I believe the speech was very well received. It focused very much on energy and migration/immigration. I have been talking about this for a long period of time and this Forum, was the absolute best from the standpoint of making these two important statements. I hope everybody gets to watch it!” he wrote.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto issued a plea for an independent Palestine and peace in the region.

“We must have an independent Palestine, but we must also recognise the safety and security of Israel. Only then we can we have real peace," he said.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: US Vice President JD Vance has lauded Trump's speech at the UN General Assembly.

“All kidding aside did everyone notice how despite the lack of a teleprompter, he delivered a clear, reasonable address on US foreign policy?” he wrote on X. “It's nice to have a president with a brain!”

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump mentioned India in two key contexts in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that lasted just under an hour in New York.

The first mention was a repeat of his claim that he “stopped a war” between India and Pakistan, counting it among seven such cases — something he's done at least three dozen times so far, though never at the biggest global stage of diplomacy. Read more.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Trump said that he would meet with Brazil's president next week. "I was walking in, and the leader of Brazil was walking out.... We actually agreed that we would meet next week," said Trump said at UN.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Donald Trump has ended his address. He went well beyond the 15-minute limit meant for speeches by world leaders.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: In his address, Donald Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever’ and accused other countries of breaking pollution rules.

“The carbon footprint is a hoax, made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction,” Trump told the General Assembly.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Trump said that European countries are “going to hell” because of migration. “Uncontrolled migration is the top issue of our time,” he said

“It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now,” Trump added.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: At UNGA, Trump alleged that China and India are the “primary funders” of Russia's Ukraine war. He also adds that Europeans must 'immediately cease' buying Russian oil.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Addressing world leaders, Donald Trump emphasised the need for a ceasefire in Gaza. He also accused Hamas of rejecting reasonable peace offers. “Those who want peace should unite behind hostage release,” he said. Trump also said that recognising a Palestinian state “would be too great for Hamas”.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Trump reiterated his claim of ending 7 wars and criticised the United Nations, saying that he did not get any help from it. “UN is not coming close to living up to its potential,” he said.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Addressing world leaders, Donald Trump said that immigration is ‘destroying countries’ and asked other countries to act on it.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump started his speech, noting that the teleprompter is not working.

“I can only say whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,” he said jokingly.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump is addressing world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly. This is his first speech at the world body since returning to office earlier this year.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Referring to the recent conviction of far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's Lula said that his country has sent a message to all “aspiring autocrats”.

“Brazil sent a message to all aspiring autocrats and those who support them, our democracy, our sovereignty are non-negotiable,” he said.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: The US Secret Service on Tuesday said that federal agents dismantled a network of devices in the New York area that was capable of crippling telecom systems and carrying out anonymous telephonic attacks.

In a statement, the agency said that its agents discovered more than 300 SIM card servers and 100,000 SIM cards at several locations within a 35-mile radius of New York City.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that “our democracy and sovereignty are non-negotiable” and warned that “anti-democratic forces” are targeting institutions around the world.

"Throughout the world, anti-democratic forces are trying to subjugate institutions and stifle freedoms," he said.

By tradition, Brazil delivers the first address at the debate, followed by the United States as the host nation.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the world has entered in an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering, according to AP.

“We have entered in an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering,” he said in his annual “state of the World” speech. “The pillars of peace and progress are buckling under the weight of impunity, inequality and indifference.”

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President Trump would call upon the UN to act on various crises instead of just debating them.

“I think what the president’s going to do is challenge the UN to find its meaning and its purpose and its utility as an organization because it it doesn’t seem to be doing the job,” Rubio said in an interview on “Fox and Friends”.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: As per Trump's schedule, he will deliver remarks to the United Nations General Assembly at 9.50 am ET (local time).

He will then take part in a series of bilateral meetings with world leaders across the late morning and early afternoon. In the evening at 7.20pm, Trump will attend and give an address at a UN reception before returning to the White House.

UN General Assembly 2025 LIVE updates: Earlier today, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump would discuss the "renewal of American strength around the world."

"The president will also touch upon how globalist institutions have significantly decayed the world order, and he will articulate his straightforward and constructive vision for the world," she told reporters in Washington, according to Reuters.