Oh, they're familiar with it now.Trump’s chairing of a UN meeting on Wednesday morning was not met with laughter, but with confusion. The US president did discuss the ostensible subject of the meeting, touching on the Iran nuclear deal and North Korea. But he also veered into distinctly non-nonproliferation territory, accusing China of meddling in the upcoming midterm elections, while offering no proof. “They do not want me or us to win, because I am the first president to challenge China on trade,” Trump said. “And we are winning on trade. We are winning at every level.” It was the kind of tangent that would seem completely normal at a Trump rally. But at the highly scripted Security Council, it was distinctly out of place.
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“He doesn’t have any concept of diplomacy,” one Asian diplomat said.
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The United Nations, home of diplomacy and decorum, is unfamiliar with the sort of brash braggadocio that’s considered par for the course for Trump.
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The article also quotes three unnamed diplomats who confirmed that the laughter at Trump's claim he'd accomplished more than any previous administration was not appreciative of a joke, but indeed, derisive laughter.
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