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Perhaps the speech of the century was given at the U.N. recently. If you didn’t hear this speech, here are some excerpts:

“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”

The placid approaches of Presidents Bush and Clinton’s nuclear deals, and the empty “strategic patience” of President Obama, has had less than no success, so a change of coarse is more than necessary. It is too bad that North Korea’s dictator was allowed to gather so much offensive capability.

Trump spoke unveiled truth when he said, “The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure.”

And as for Iran and the most “embarrassing” deal the US ever made - “The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos.”

Here are some other world-wide atrocities he reminded the U.N members of: Pyongyang’s “deadly abuse” of American student Otto Warmbier, North Korea’s kidnapping of a Japanese 13-year-old girl “to enslave her as a language tutor for North Korea’s spies,” and “the assassination of the dictator’s brother using banned nerve agents in an international airport.”

Truth rang out time and again from his clearly delivered speech, right on target.

“America does more than speak for the values expressed in the United Nations charter. Our citizens have paid the ultimate price to defend our freedom and the freedom of many nations represented in this great hall.”

“As President of the United States, I will always put America first.”

MAUREEN PATERSON

Priest River