London wants to impose Islamic law and global warming is a scam: Trump's lies at the UN

BarcelonaUS President Donald Trump has turned his 56-minute speech at the United Nations General Assembly into a political rally in which he repeated many of his usual tenets. Also, as is often the case, several of his statements are unconsidered or simply false. We review some of them.

No illegal immigrants have entered the US in the last four months.

Trump has focused much of his speech on immigration. He has blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for having implemented an "open borders" policy, which is not true, since the Democrat significantly tightened its immigration policy to make it more difficult to obtain asylum and facilitate immediate expulsions at the southern border. Trump has claimed that no illegal immigrants have crossed the border in the last four months. "For four consecutive months, the number of illegal immigrants admitted and entering our country has been zero. It's hard to believe, especially if you look back just a year ago, when there were millions and millions of people from all over the world, people coming out of prisons, mental institutions, drug traffickers... with the ridiculous open border policy." It is true that his administration has reduced illegal entries at the border with Mexico, but it is not true that no one has crossed. According to the New York TimesBorder officials recorded more than 9,700 apprehensions in August, according to Customs and Border Protection. However, this figure is a far cry from the more than 107,000 apprehensions in August of last year.

The mayor of London wants to impose Islamic law

Also on migration, he warned that Europe should put a stop to it. "Europe has serious problems. They have been invaded by a force of illegal immigrants like no one has ever seen before," he said. He went so far as to claim that London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to impose Islamic law in the British capital. "Because they choose to be politically correct, they do absolutely nothing about it. And I have to say, I look at London, where they have a terrible, terrible mayor... It's changed a lot, a lot. Now they want to adopt Sharia law," he said. But Khan has not announced any such plan. "We will not dignify their appalling and intolerant comments with a response," a spokesperson for the mayor's office told the BBC.

The Seven Wars

Trump has repeatedly stated that in his eight months as president, he has "ended" seven wars, a milestone for which he asserted that "everyone says I should receive the Nobel Peace Prize." The "endless wars" he listed are: Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. We review the status of each:

• Israel-Iran: In June, Washington attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, ending 12 days of hostilities between the two countries. However, tensions remain, and there is no agreement for a permanent peace.
• Pakistan-IndiaNew Delhi has denied that Trump played a decisive role in securing a ceasefire agreement with Pakistan to end days of attacks on the disputed territory of Kashmir in May. The conflict de-escalated, but it's unclear what influence the United States actually exerted.
• Rwanda-DRC: Trump announced a peace agreement signed in Washington in June. But the Rwanda-funded M23 guerrilla group, one of the main players in the conflict, was not part of the talks. Both sides have been accused of violating the agreement, and human rights groups have documented the killing of civilians in eastern Congo in recent months.
• Thailand-CambodiaTrump threatened the leaders of both countries that he would halt trade talks unless they agreed to a ceasefire, following several days of border fighting this summer. Two days later, a ceasefire was reached at a meeting in Malaysia with US officials. However, the underlying causes of the conflict remain.
• Armenia-Azerbaijan: Trump summoned the leaders of both Caucasian countries to the White House in August to sign an agreement to end three decades of conflict. It's not a peace agreement, but a commitment to end hostilities, although Azerbaijan still occupies parts of Armenia and the two countries have not agreed on borders. However, it's one of the cases where experts suggest Trump can claim credit.
• Egypt-Ethiopia: The two countries have been experiencing diplomatic tensions for years, but are not involved in any military conflict. Ethiopia inaugurated a dam on the Nile River, the center of the conflict, in early September, and Trump's diplomacy has not helped reduce tensions, as Egypt and Sudan continue to oppose each other.
• Serbia-Kosovo: In 2020, they signed an agreement to pursue economic cooperation in the Oval Office. However, no peace agreement has been signed between the two Balkan countries, and Serbia still hasn't recognized Kosovo's independence.

Global warming, a "scam"

Trump has also made false claims about the climate crisis and denied global warming, which he has described as "the biggest hoax ever perpetrated," despite the scientific consensus that coal, oil, and gas have contributed to an increase in the global average temperature of more than 1 degree since the pre-industrial era.

The US president has also blamed China for global air pollution problems, despite the US being responsible for the majority of global emissions since the Industrial Revolution. He also claimed that environmentalists want to "kill all the cows" and lamented that "the Scottish and English countryside is being ruined with windmills and huge solar panels."