Beltway Insider: Trump/UN Speech, UN General Assembly, Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Gaza, James Comey, Charlie Kirk Memorial
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- Published on Saturday, 27 September 2025 17:28
- Written by Janet Walker
President Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly this week, using the time to touch on many issues, a few inconsequential seemingly adlibbed ideas, while others including the more pressing global issues such as Gaza and Ukraine.
The President's job approval rating, according to Gallup featured in The New York Times for the period ending September 28, 2025, of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President remained consistent at 40% and those who disapprove of his effectiveness as president remained consistent at 56%. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.
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Trump Lashes World Leaders
During the speech Trump, presenting himself as the patriarchal leader of the world, or boardroom, a position reminiscent to his years on the NBC television show "The Apprentice," delivered a scathing lashing to world leaders, and delegates who had gathered to hear how the president would react, and hopefully, after shifting through the verbiage, would find a kernel of direction they could take home to build policy upon.
"In his remarks, Mr. Trump lectured the United Nations and other countries about how they were failing and aired a list of grievances." Adding, "I'm really good at this stuff," Mr. Trump said. "Your countries are going to hell," The New York Times reported.
As the president, who spoke for nearly an hour, didn't touch on many subjects long enough to gather a clear idea, the context of his remarks, seem to indicate that he is a talented builder, and the infrastructure in areas around the world, including the United Nations, who suffered an escalator malfunction as he and First Lady Melania Trump, were riding, were failing.
In the lead up to the President speech, officials at the United Nations, had billed it as President Trump's opportunity to present his vision for global direction, not only for all member nations of the U.N., but for those in the G7, and the G20, those nations whose economies are growing.
These nations, where the economies are unstable, include high poverty rates, and are affected by other social ills associated with developing or least developing nations, such as unsafe water, pockets of armed militias, and the uncontrolled spread of diseases, the United States offered no vision on how to aid these nations, how to follow up on former policies which recognized the emerging nations of the world, and what the United States can do to further assist such as ensuring internet access, providing safe drinking water, and vaccinations to stop the spread of disease that, as we have witnessed with the Coronavirus, can migrate and derail economies the world over.
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Trump's Congenial Side Bar Performance
The bashing and largely disappointing general assembly speech was followed by a flurry of nations hoping to gain audience with Mr. Trump in side bar sessions, which all will explain he is much more congenial and friendly during these sessions, than the patriarchal father, usually witnessed, lashing his children demanding they rise up to the occasion and do better, at the general assembly speech.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky meet with Mr. Trump during a side bar sessions, and after the meeting ended, "In a social media post, he made a stunning pivot on Ukraine, saying the country, with the support of Europe, was "in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form," The New York Times reported.
Ukraine Russia War
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky also had a moment at the United Nations, on the day following the surprise policy turnabout announced by Mr. Trump, he offered his battle tested knowledge of the future of warfare and how the use of unmanned drones could usher in a new, more damaging and deadly, theater of the future.
Unmanned drone warfare may seem like an answer to any nation's manned invasions, but in reality, according to Zelensky it "will be even more dangerous as A.I. is integrated into drones. The regulation of that technology is as urgent as stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, he said," The New York Times reported.
At this point in the nearly three year war, Zelensky has made an appeal to the United States, even as the policy may shift, the Ukraine is in need of more advanced weapons, the best in the world, which are manufactured n the United States. Even if Mr. Trump refuses to provide an aid package to Zelensky that includes many of the most advanced weaponry in the world, he could sell them to any of the U.S. allies, who then, as an aggressive Russia is a threat to all on the European continent, provide them to the Ukraine, and the weapons would still be used to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression.
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Israel, Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also attended the United Nations General Assembly meeting and was given time to speak to the global gathering of world leaders. However, as Netanyahu approached the podium, the chamber was filled with applause, as many of the delegations exited in protest.
Netanyahu announced that he had "surrounded Gaza with massive loud speakers connected to this microphone in the hopes that our dear hostages will hear this message," and know they are not forgotten. He also denounced the two-state solution in a passionate speech, which many of his former allies, including France, Canada, Britian, and others used the general assembly to present a two state resolution. Now of the 32 NATO nations, 18 have recognized a two-state solution.
This is not new, the two state resolution was passed by the UN General Assembly in 1947, under resolution 181, which proposed to partition Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, with Jerusalem as an international city. Israel accepted the plan, and the Palestinian Arabs did not. On May 14, 1948 Israel declared its independence and immediately after, the Arabs invaded to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state.
For 78 years, the two sides have been fighting. Fighting the same battle, fueling the same hate, and now, with Gaza nearly razed, Netanyahu has set his sights on the West Bank. As the world continues to advance, Netanyahu's plan to annex the West Bank is facing intense opposition.
"In response, some members of Mr. Netanyahu's right-wing governing coalition have called for the annexation of all or part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. That could put the Israeli leader at odds with his strongest ally, President Trump, who this week assured world leaders that the United States would not allow it," The New York Times reported.
James Comey, former Director of the FBI, Indicted
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two counts of lying to Congress, stemming from his 2020 testimony, in an ongoing war as President Trump continues its efforts to avenge what he believes are egregious wrongs suffered at the hands of Mr. Comey.
Even as several U.S. Attorney's appointed under Trump explained the evidence was weak, and resigned rather than move forward, interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsay Halligan, presented the case to a grand jury, who returned an indictment on two of the counts, and rejected a third.
U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi, "in a statement Thursday, said "no one is above the law." While that makes for good social media post, the facts remain that many believe they are above the law, and while it is doubtful that this action against Comey will even go to trial, many have committed far worse, exceedingly worse crimes, and have escaped justice through special privileges law, an unwritten, but oft used protection, provided to elite members of society by prosecutors.
Comey responded to the indictment with this statement, "My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way," he said. "We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either," The Washington Post reported.
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Coronavirus Total
At the order of the President of the United States, the U.S. no longer recognizes the value of The World Health Organization. The CDC has recommended every person from age six months, including senior citizens should receive at least one shot of an updated COVID-19 vaccine, annually. The death toll from Covid-19 has dramatically decreased, as has transmission of the virus. Even as confirmed new cases continue each week, fewer are dying from the newer variants.
For the seven days ending September 28, 2025, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases reported by the World Health Organization increased by 40,392 to 778,612,822. The total worldwide death toll increased by 561 to 7,101,631 deaths. The United States has stopped providing Covid data to the World Health Organization. (Data updated September 7, 2025, from the World Health Organization).
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Charlie Kirk Memorial
Tens of thousands of mourners filled the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, last Sunday in memory of Charlie Kirk, 31, a right-wing conservative Republican who was assassinated during a speech at Utah Valley University.
The service, a mix of politics and religion, featured many of President Trump's inner circle, including Vice-President JD Vance, who had been friends with the Mr. Kirk, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Ambassador to India (nominee) Sergio Gor.
As President Trump addressed the largely Christian audience, he stated, "No side in American politics has a monopoly on disturbed or misguided people, but there's one part of our political community which believes they have a monopoly on truth, goodness and virtue and concludes they have also a monopoly on power, thought and speech," he said. "Well, that's not happening anymore. We've turned that corner very quickly. Tragically, atrocities of this kind and the kind that we saw in Utah, of all places, are the eventual consequence of that kind of thinking," NBCnews.com reported.
His statements echoed what many, on both sides of the aisle, believed if this senseless show of violence could happen in Utah or any other conversative stronghold, than how much more in other areas of the nation or world?
Violence is never the answer to arguments. From the time the Black Panther political organization in the 1970s issued a call to action to pick up the guns for defense, which they answered, and by this call to action prophesied their own genocide, Americans have witnessed daily in neighborhoods throughout the country, the same call to action issued and permitted by different organizations result in the same destruction of lives in every culture, every race, every social and economic level. The use of gun violence to solve arguments only ends in tragedy, loss, and sorrow.
Not simply on this day, but on each day a gun takes the life of another son or daughter, husband, wife, mother or father. No matter the race, children orphaned by gun violence are still without parents, wives are still without husbands. Death is still death.
Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk said, "That young man, I forgive him. . . . I forgive him because it was what Christ did and what Charlie would do. The answer is not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is love and always love, love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us," NBCnews.com reported.
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Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," and "Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
