Trump to United Nations: 'We Will Stop Radical Islamic Terrorism'

"President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning that the U.S. would 'stop radical Islamic terrorism,' employing a phrase that his advisers have tried to discourage him from using in the past.

On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump attacked the Obama administration and his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for refusing to refer to radical Islamic terror in an attempt to appease the Islamic world (while at the same time denying that there was anything authentically Islamic about self-proclaimed Islamic terrorists)...

He challenged the UN to pressure North Korea: 'The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. That's what the United Nations is all about; that's what the United Nations is for. Let's see how they do. It is time for North Korea to realize that the denuclearization is its only acceptable future.'

Trump also had strong words for Iran. 'The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy,' he said, slamming the regime for exporting terror and warning that the U.S. would terminate the Iran deal - 'one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,' he said...

International human rights lawyer and frequent UN critic Anne Bayefsky told Breitbart News that Trump's speech was good - but that one weak point was his insistence on UN reform, which lacked concrete commitments.

'The speech was excellent, but the question is now whether this administration has a serious intention to follow through. So-called reform is a wasteland and a diversionary tactic - driven by the UN - that will take the president way off course,' Bayefsky said.

'Serious change can happen now and any kind of UN timetable is a recipe for disaster. Resigning from what he pointed out was a disgraceful Human Rights Council can be done today. Refusing to certify imaginary Iranian good behavior in its obvious pursuit of weapons of mass destruction can be done now.

'In contrast to the UN, the President will be judged by deeds and not words alone.'"