EXCERPTS, as prepared for delivery, of President Trump’s speech to the United Nations, as provided by the White House:

While others have talked, I have acted. While others have spoken of peace, I have made it. While others have ignored threats, I have confronted them. While others have talked of courage, America has shown it. While others have promised strength, I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world.

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In America, we just marked the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attack in history, September 11th, which killed 3,000 people a few miles from here. In two weeks, we will mark the third anniversary of the October 7th attack in Israel, where terrorists funded by Iran tortured, mutilated, and killed 1,200 innocent civilians, including dozens of Americans. Iran’s Supreme Leader celebrated that massacre and called it a “service to humanity.” The same regime slaughtered over 72,000 of its own citizens this year. Just imagine if such a vile regime were ever empowered to carry out large-scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield.  This was the reality we had to confront—a reality that far too many preferred to ignore.

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I want to thank the U.N. Security Council for voting overwhelmingly to pass a resolution condemning Iran’s despicable terrorist attacks on commercial shipping. That resolution—I am pleased to say—received more co-sponsors from U.N. member nations than any Security Council Resolution in history.

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The United States will no longer permit threats to America to gain a foothold anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. And if necessary, we will use our unmatched military might to secure the vital national interests of the United States.

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The cartels are the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere. They are enemies at war with civilization—using murder, rape, torture, and extortion as instruments of terror.

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The Cuban regime has also spent decades coordinating with left-wing radicals and Communist networks here in the United States. As our State Department has detailed, they have cultivated ties to subversive and radical groups such as the Communist Party USA, Antifa, and the Dumocrat Socialists of America.

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There is no global government, and while I am President, there will be NO GLOBAL TAXES.

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Freedom was not a gift that Americans won easily, and after 250 years, it is not one we will ever surrender.