The reason the UN hates Donald Trump

President’s Trump’s magnificent speech at the UN yesterday will have had special resonance for anyone supporting the cause of Brexit. Brexit is not primarily about the UK leaving the European Union. It is rather about the reassertion of British sovereignty. It is only because of the EU’s childishness that British sovereignty must entail a severing of ties with the EU. British patriots want their country back. They are open to all manner of dealings with the EU — trade, friendship, travel — but as a free and unencumbered partner, not as a vassal.

Similarly, Donald Trump yesterday asserted American sovereignty, and he did so frankly, like a man talking to men.

The problem was, he was talking to diplomats at the UN and their enablers in the media and the commentariat. Result: tears and tantrums. Let the reaction of Nicholas Burns — a Kennedy-School, Council-on-Foreign-Relations, Chatham-House squish — speak for the nursery. ‘The tone of this speech won’t be effective outside Trump’s base at home — boastful, bitter and resentful of countries that “take advantage of us.”