Douglas Murray on Life, Liberty and Levin. “it was an incredible speech, and not least because of the fact that the President did away with all of those idiotic diplomatic niceties that are pretty much the norm, the expected norm. Whenever a world leader stands on the stage of the United Nations, you know, all of our lifetimes, you know, we’ve seen presidents and prime ministers, they get up there and they say all of the bromides and agreed talking points to pay tribute to the various shibboleths of the time, and President Trump just did away with all of that and told the United Nations a whole pile of uncomfortable truths.”