Opinion/Foreign Relations
Ken Timmerman’s Threat Watch, www.kentimmerman.com 9-19-25
| If you missed President Trump’s speech at the UN this week, you have to go back and watch it. You will find the video on the White House website, and I guarantee you, you won’t be bored. He roasted the Euros for their serial hypocrisy: claiming to support free speech while jailing citizens for politically incorrect tweets; claiming to support Ukraine while continuing to buy Russian oil and gas. He also warned them that they were destroying their countries by allowing unchecked mass migration. He also roasted the UN, noting that not once did he get a call from anyone at the UN when he was negotiating the end to seven conflicts during the first eight months of his presidency. But Trump’s Big Reveal has gotten little media attention, nor any response from the UN. I would like you to read this passage in full: “Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, too often, it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve. “The best example is the number one political issue of our time, the crisis of uncontrolled migration. It’s uncontrolled. Your countries are being ruined. The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders. “In 2024, the UN budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States. Think of that, the UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and then we have to get them out. The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards to illegal aliens, can you believe that, on the way to infiltrate our southern border.” Contemplate that for a moment. The United Nations was actually funding an illegal invasion of our country. And US taxpayers continue to provide 22% of the UN budget! Not surprisingly, the UN wasn’t alone in funding this assault on American sovereignty. Our own Department of State, through the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and USAID, separately provided $1.4 billion to the UN’s International Organization for Migration during the last year of the Biden administration to further the invasion. $1.4 billion! After returning to Washington, the President met with Turkish president Erdogan in the Oval office. Many commentators, including me, have criticized Trump for his serial praise of the Turkish dictator. I have long argued that Turkey, under Erdogan, has not behaved as a NATO ally but an enemy state, criticisms Trump always appeared to sweep under the rug. Erdogan came to Washington hoping that Trump would lift the sanctions imposed in 2019 when Turkey purchased Russian S-300 air defense systems. Until then, Turkey had been a participant in the F-35 program. After the Russian purchase, the US cut them off. But Trump didn’t mention the F-35 program in the public part of his meeting with Erdogan. Instead, he told Erdogan that Turkey had to stop buying Russia oil and natural gas and noted that Turkey was responsible for the transshipment to NATO allies in Europe of 26% of Russia’s natural gas exports. And in what appeared to be an offhand comment, Trump joked with reporters that Erdogan “knows about rigged elections better than anybody.” Ouch! If nothing else, Trump’s treatment of Erdogan, much as his treatment of European leaders, has shown that he is indeed a transactional president. He wants results, and he is not shy of naming and shaming those who stand in the way. I discuss this, as well as Trump’s statement that Ukraine is now in a position to win back all of the territories seized by Russia, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s summons to the entire general officer corps, in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. You can listen to podcast later here. Yours in freedom, Ken |
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