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The World Just Laughed at Donald Trump

The president has often warned that the United States has become the butt of global jokes, and with a silly boast on Tuesday, he demonstrated it.
Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

Everyone’s got their own recurring nightmare—naked in class, teeth falling out, whatever. For Donald Trump, that nightmare is that the world is laughing at the United States, and on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, the nightmare came true.

The president’s public remarks are littered with warnings that America is, or

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