The claim was not obviously true then, but Trump has made it so. The world is now laughing at us — specifically, at our president.
"In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country," Trump boasted, in typical fashion, to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. "So true," he added, as if addressing a campaign rally.
In fairness to those who chortled, Trump’s speech was funny, in a way: a kind of rhetorical blitzkrieg. Trump spoke as though he had accepted a dare to see how much of the world he could offend in the span of a 35-minute address.