Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton praised President Donald Trump’s Tuesday address to the General Assembly and said that the American people still appreciate “plain speaking.”
“The only way to deal with the quagmire that the U.N. represents on so many issues is to be direct. For Americans, plain speaking is still a virtue, and there is a lot of plain speaking in that speech,” Bolton said during an interview on “Happening Now.” “This was the best speech of the Trump presidency in my view. I think he was as clear and direct as it’s possible to be.”
Bolton thought Trump’s tough talk against North Korea and Iran were the highlights of the speech and said such comments were unprecedented at the U.N.
“I think it’s safe to say in the entire history of the United Nations, there has never been a more straightforward criticism of the behavior, the unacceptable behavior or member states,” Bolton said. “I think these are about as clear an indication as a president can make that he’s not going to live with the kinds of half measures and compromises that frankly for 25 years have marked American policy and led us to the present desperate situation.”
The former Bush Administration official said the best moment came when Trump slammed socialism as a failed ideology, specifically calling out Venezuela.
“My favorite came at the end and it may have been the most shocking thing he said in the context of the United Nations, talking about Venezuela. He [Trump] said, this is not a case of socialism being poorly implemented. It’s a case of socialism being implemented exactly the way the theory tells us. I tell you, there are a lot of people in the U.N. who have never heard anything like that from an American president,” Bolton said.
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